Sloane Square
About Sloane Square
Sloane Square is a small hard-landscaped square on the boundaries of the central London districts of Belgravia and Chelsea, located 1.8 miles (2.9 km) southwest of Charing Cross, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The area forms a boundary between the two largest aristocratic estates in London, the Grosvenor Estate and the Cadogan. The square was formerly known as 'Hans Town', laid out in 1771 to a plan of by Henry Holland Snr. and Henry Holland Jnr. Both the square and Hans Town were named after Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), an Anglo-Irish doctor who, jointly with his appointed trustees, owned the land at the time.
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Sloane Square Underground Station in London has a river running through it. Actually, it runs over the trains.
from No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 at 00:01:17 · read transcript
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If you look for those old rivers, then you'll find that tremendous history. Yeah. I really didn't know about these rivers, as in I'd heard that, there was the one in Sloan Square and so on. I didn't appreciate how much they were the fabric of London in the old days and the 1700s and before. It's extraordinary because all the names of the tube stations are a reflection of the rivers and their name.
No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 · listen
I think this is a marvelous thing that you can actually go under a river, but be on a train in that way. I love that. It's astonishing. I've been to Sloan Square Station a lot. I've never noticed that. I've looked up photos and I now understand what this giant metallic pipe that sort of sits above the trackers. That's the exciting thing about London, is that really nobody has a full map of it.
No Such Thing As A Cardigan For Ginger Rogers, 2020-08-21 · listen
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