Pickering Place, SW1Y
Carlton House Terrace
Pickering Place is London’s smallest square.

There was a court roughly on the same site as Pickering Place called Stroud’s Court. Featuring four small tenements, it was built in the back garden of 3 St James’s Street in around 1690. In 1698, a Mrs Bourne established a grocery shop and coffee mill at number 3. In the 1730s, her son-in-law William Pickering agreed with the landlords to demolish Stroud Court. By 1734 it was renamed Pickering Court and contained the five current dwellings.

The square was renamed Pickering Place in 1810.

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