St Georges Row, SW1V

Road in/near Pimlico, existed between 1785 and 1955

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St Georges Row was built as Monster Row circa 1785, and renamed in 1833.

The ground between Victoria Station and the river occupies the site of the old manor of Neyte, which belonged to the Abbey of Westminster until confiscated by Henry VIII in 1536. It was a favourite residence of the Abbots, and here also lived John of Gaunt, and here John, son of Richard, Duke of York, was born in 1448. In 1592 the manor became a farm and passed with the Ebury Estate into the possession of the Grosvenor family.

The manor-house stood on the later St George’s Row, and in Pepys’ time was a popular pleasure-garden. Between the Willow Walk (Warwick Street) and the river were the Neat House Gardens, which supplied a large part of London with vegetables. The name lingered until the present century among the houses on the river-bank, and is still commemorated by Neat House Buildings in Ranelagh Road. The whole area was low-lying and swampy, and the neighbourhood of Eccleston Square was occupied by a vast osier bed.

In 1827, Cubitt raised the level of the district by depositing the earth excavated from St. Katharine’s Docks, and houses and squares were gradually completed.

The Monster tavern and garden, later the Monster pub and in the Row, was a name which was probably a corruption of monastery.The Monster was, for many years, the start of a line of horse-drawn buses known as the "Monster" buses.

St Georges Row was largely obliterated in a Luftwaffe raid on 17 April 1941. It became known to the people who lived through it as, simply, ’The Wednesday’. 148 people were killed that night in Pimlico and 564 injured. The Monster Tavern was destroyed.

The Abbots Manor Estate replaced St Georges Row in the 1950s.



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Citation information: The Fascination of London: Belgravia and Pimlico – The Und
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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Ebury Farm Ebury Farm was a simple marshy farm whose lands later became the richest real estate in London.
Orange Square Orange Square is a small open area in Belgravia.
Victoria Coach Station Victoria Coach Station is the largest coach station in London.

NEARBY STREETS
Alderney Street, SW1V Alderney Street was originally Stanley Street, after George Stanley, local landowner (Pimlico)
Anson House, SW1V Anson House, on Churchill Gardens Road, dates from 1957 (Pimlico)
Antrobus Street, SW1V Antrobus Street, now demolished, was long called Rutland Street (Pimlico)
Avery Farm Row, SW1W Avery Farm Row - after a former farm here of this name, ’Avery’ being a corruption of ’Ebury’ (Victoria)
Belgrave Road, SW1V Belgrave Road is a street in the Pimlico area of London (Pimlico)
Blackstone House, SW1V Blackstone House is a block of Churchill Gardens (Pimlico)
Bloomfield Terrace, SW1W Bloomfield Terrace - an alteration of ‘Blomfield’ - after Charles James Blomfield, Bishop of London (Pimlico)
Bourne Street, SW1W Bourne Street is lined with what were once artisans’ dwellings. (Belgravia)
Bramah House, SW1W Bramah House is sited on Gatliff Road (Chelsea)
Bramwell House, SW1V Bramwell House is a late 1950s block (Pimlico)
Bridge House, SW1W Bridge House can be found on Ebury Bridge (Victoria)
Buckland House, SW1V Buckland House is a block on Warwick Way (Pimlico)
Bucknill House, SW1W Bucknill House is a block on Ebury Bridge Road (Pimlico)
Bulleid Way, SW1V Bulleid Way is nearly completely underneath Victoria station (Victoria)
Bunhouse Place, SW1W Bunhouse Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Burton Mews, SW1W Burton Mews is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Belgravia)
Cambridge Street, SW1V Cambridge Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Campbell House, SW1V Campbell House is a block on Johnson’s Place (Pimlico)
Chaucer House, SW1V Chaucer House was one of the first blocks built on the Churchill Gardens Estate (Pimlico)
Chelsea Bridge Road, SW1W Chelsea Bridge Road was built in the 1850s to connect Chelsea with its bridge (Chelsea)
Chelsea Embankment, SW1W Chelsea Embankment is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Chelsea)
Chester Row, SW1W Chester Row with its tall stucco houses lies at the heart of the district of Belgravia (Belgravia)
Cheylesmore House, SW1W Residential block (Pimlico)
Chippendale House, SW1V Chippendale House is a block on the Churchill Gardens Estate (Pimlico)
Churchill Gardens Road, SW1V Churchill Gardens Road is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Pimlico)
Churton Place, SW1V Churton Place is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Pimlico)
Churton Street, SW1V Churton Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Clarendon Street, SW1V Clarendon Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Coleridge House, SW1V Coleridge House is a long block begun in the year 1950 and facing a green in Churchill Gardens (Pimlico)
Colonnade Walk, SW1W Colonnade Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Conduit Street, SW1W Conduit Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1Wpostal area (Belgravia)
Cubitt Building, SW1W Cubitt Building can be found on Gatliff Road (Chelsea)
Cumberland Street, SW1V Cumberland Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Dalton House, SW1W Dalton House is a block on Ebury Bridge (Pimlico)
De Quincey House, SW1V De Quincey House is a 7-storey block with 39 dwellings with shops below (Pimlico)
Dells Mews, SW1V Dells Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Denbigh Mews, SW1V Denbigh Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Denbigh Place, SW1V Denbigh Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Denbigh Street, SW1V Denbigh Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Doneraile House, SW1W Doneraile House is a block on Ebury Bridge Road (Pimlico)
Dove Walk, SW1W Dove Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Dryburgh House, SW1V Dryburgh House is sited on Alderney Street (Pimlico)
Eaton Terrace, SW1W Eaton Terrace is a street of elegant five and six storey terraced houses (Belgravia)
Ebury Bridge Road, SW1W Ebury Bridge Road used to lead to Ebury Bridge which spanned the Grosvenor Canal (Pimlico)
Ebury Bridge, SW1V Ebury Bridge at first spanned an inlet of the Thames, and later the Grosvenor Canal (Pimlico)
Ebury Square, SW1W In contrast with much of Belgravia’s planned building, Ebury Square developed as a result of London’s natural expansion. (Victoria)
Eccleston Square Mews, SW1V Eccleston Square Mews is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Pimlico)
Eccleston Square, SW1V Eccleston Square is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Edgson House, SW1W Edgson House is a block on Ebury Bridge Road (Pimlico)
Elgar House, SW1V Elgar House is one of the blocks of the Churchill Gardens Estate (Pimlico)
Elizabeth Bridge, SW1V Elizabeth Bridge is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Victoria)
Elizabeth Street, SW1W Elizabeth Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Erskine House, SW1V Erskine House is a block on Churchill Gardens Road (Pimlico)
Evesham House, SW1V Evesham House is located on Sutherland Row (Pimlico)
Fonthill House, SW1V Fonthill House is a building on Sutherland Street (Pimlico)
Fountain Court, SW1W Fountain Court is a block on Avery Farm Row (Victoria)
Fountain Square, SW1W Fountain Square is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Furness House, SW1V Furness House is a block on Warwick Way (Pimlico)
Garrison Square, SW1W Garrison Square is a location in London (Pimlico)
Gatliff Road, SW1W Gatliff Road is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Chelsea)
Gifford House, SW1V Gifford House is a block on Lupus Street (Pimlico)
Gilbert House, SW1V Gilbert House is paired with Sullivan House to its south (Pimlico)
Gillingham Street, SW1V Gillingham Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Victoria)
Glasgow Terrace, SW1V Glasgow Terrace has coexisted with the name of Caledonia Street (Pimlico)
Glastonbury House, SW1V Glastonbury House is sited on Warwick Way (Pimlico)
Globe House, SW1V Globe House is a block on Eccleston Square (Victoria)
Gloucester Street, SW1V Gloucester Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Graham Terrace, SW1W Graham Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Grosvenor Road, SW1W Grosvenor Road is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Pimlico)
Guildhouse Street, SW1V Guildhouse Street is named after the Guild House (Pimlico)
Hallam House, SW1V Hallam House is a block on Johnson’s Place (Pimlico)
Hawthorne House, SW1V Hawthorne House is a block on Churchill Gardens Road (Pimlico)
Hepworth Court, SW1W Hepworth Court is a block on Gatliff Road (Chelsea)
Hillersdon House, SW1W Hillersdon House is a block on Ebury Bridge Road (Pimlico)
Hindon Court, SW1V Hindon Court is a block on Wilton Road (Victoria)
Hirst Court, SW1W Hirst Court is a block on Gatliff Road (Chelsea)
Hugh Street, SW1V Hugh Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Victoria)
Jane Austen House, SW1V Jane Austen House is sited on Johnson’s Place (Pimlico)
Johnson’s Place, SW1V Johnson’s Place is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Pimlico)
Kilmuir House, SW1W Kilmuir House is a block on Ebury Street (Belgravia)
Kirkstall House, SW1V Kirkstall House is a block on Sutherland Street (Pimlico)
Kylestrome House, SW1W Kylestrome House is a block on Cundy Street (Victoria)
Langdale House, SW1V Langdale House can be found on Lupus Street (Pimlico)
Laxford House, SW1W Laxford House is located on Cundy Street (Victoria)
Littleton House, SW1V Littleton House is a 10-storey block containing 116 flats with commercial premises below (Pimlico)
Lochmore House, SW1W Lochmore House is a block on Cundy Street (Victoria)
Longmoore Street, SW1V Longmoore Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Lupus Street, SW1V Lupus Street was named after Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester (Pimlico)
Lutyens House, SW1V Lutyens House is a block named for Edwin Lutyens, an English architect known for adapting traditional architectural styles to the requirements of his era (Pimlico)
Maitland House, SW1V Maitland House is a block on Churchill Gardens Road (Pimlico)
Marryat House, SW1V Marryat House is a block on Lupus Street (Pimlico)
Martineau House, SW1V Martineau House is a block on Lupus Street (Pimlico)
Mercer House, SW1W Mercer House is a block on Ebury Bridge (Pimlico)
Moore House, SW1W Moore House is a block on Gatliff Road (Pimlico)
Mozart Terrace, SW1W Mozart Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Mulberry Square, SW1W Mulberry Square is a location in London (Victoria)
Nash House, SW1V Nash House is a 1950s block on the Churchill Gardens estate (Pimlico)
Neate House, SW1V Residential block (Pimlico)
Ormonde Place, SW1W Ormonde Place is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Victoria)
Passmore Street, SW1W Passmore Street, formerly Union Street, contains a social mix (Victoria)
Pavilion Court, SW1W Pavilion Court is sited on Gatliff Road (Chelsea)
Paxton Terrace, SW1V Paxton Terrace covers the site of the former Thames Bank Wharf (Pimlico)
Peabody Avenue, SW1V Peabody Avenue, completed in 1885, is a monument to the birth of social housing (Pimlico)
Pimilco Walk, SW1W Pimilco Walk is a road in the N1 postcode area (Victoria)
Pimlico House, SW1W Pimlico House is a block on Ebury Bridge (Victoria)
Ranelagh Grove, SW1W Ranelagh Grove was formerly called Wilderness Row and Ranelagh Walk (Pimlico)
Ranelagh Road, SW1V Ranelagh Road is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Ripley House, SW1V Ripley House is a block dating from 1956 (Pimlico)
Rivermill, SW1V Rivermill is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Rye House, SW1W Rye House is a block on Ebury Bridge Road (Victoria)
Seldon House, SW1V Seldon House is a block on Glasgow Terrace (Pimlico)
Semley House, SW1W Semley House is a block on Semley Place (Victoria)
Semley Place, SW1W Semley Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Sheraton House, SW1V Sheraton House is on Paxton Terrace (Pimlico)
Sherbourne House, SW1V Sherbourne House is a block on Cumberland Street (Pimlico)
Silverdale Industrial Estate, SW1W A street within the SW1W postcode (Victoria)
South Eaton Place, SW1W South Eaton Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
St Barnabas Mews, SW1W St Barnabas Mews is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Pimlico)
St Barnabas Street, SW1W St Barnabas Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Pimlico)
St Georges Drive, SW1V St Georges Drive is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
St Georges Row, SW1V St Georges Row was built as Monster Row circa 1785, and renamed in 1833 (Pimlico)
Stack House, SW1W Stack House is a block on Cundy Street (Victoria)
Sullivan House, SW1V Sullivan House is the southwesternmost building of Churchill Gardens (Pimlico)
Sussex Street, SW1V Sussex Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Sutherland Street, SW1V Sutherland Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Tachbrook Court, SW1V Tachbrook Court is a block on Warwick Way (Pimlico)
Tachbrook Mews, SW1V Tachbrook Mews is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Victoria)
Tintern House, SW1V Residential block (Pimlico)
Turpentine Lane, SW1V Turpentine Lane is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Pimlico)
Upper Tachbrook Street, SW1V Upper Tachbrook Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Victoria)
Victoria House, SW1W Victoria House is located on Ebury Bridge Road (Pimlico)
Wainwright House, SW1W Wainwright House is a block on Ebury Bridge Road (Pimlico)
Walden House, SW1W Walden House is a block on Avery Farm Row (Victoria)
Warwick Place North, SW1V Warwick Place North is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Warwick Place West, SW1V After 1922, the new name for Warwick Place West was West Warwick Place (Pimlico)
Warwick Square Mews, SW1V Warwick Square Mews is a road in the SW1V postcode area (Pimlico)
Warwick Square, SW1V Warwick Square is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Warwick Way, SW1V Warwick Way runs diagonally across Belgravia (Pimlico)
Wedgewood House, SW1V Wedgewood House is situated beside the Churchill Gardens wildflower meadow (Pimlico)
Wellesley House, SW1W Wellesley House is a building on Ebury Bridge Road (Pimlico)
Wellington Buildings, SW1W Wellington Buildings is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Chelsea)
Wentworth Court, SW1W Wentworth Court is a block on Gatliff Road (Pimlico)
West Mews, SW1V West Mews runs off West Warwick Place (Pimlico)
West Warwick Place, SW1V West Warwick Place is a turning off Warwick Way (Pimlico)
Westbourne House, SW1W Westbourne House is a block on Ebury Bridge (Victoria)
Westmoreland Terrace, SW1V Westmoreland Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Whistler Square, SW1W Whistler Square is a location in London (Chelsea)
Wilkins House, SW1V Wilkins House has a view of the River Thames (Pimlico)
Winchester Street, SW1V Winchester Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1V postal area (Pimlico)
Woods House, SW1W Woods House is a block on Gatliff Road (Chelsea)


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