Baldwin Gardens is an east–west road running between Gray's Inn Road and Leather Lane, in Camden, London, England.
The surrounding streets were laid out in the 17th century on an intersecting grid pattern from north to south, east to west. Baldwin Gardens was named after Baldwin, gardener to Queen Elizabeth I. The street is shown on William Morgan's 1682 map of London.
In the 17th century, as Baldwin's Gardens, the street offered sanctuary to debtors seeking to escape their creditors. John Noorthouck in A New History of London including Westminster and Southwark (1773) explained that several London localities had been used since the English Reformation as sanctuaries for debtors and no officers dared "without a hazard of their lives to arrest the lawless debtors who took refuge in them". Baldwin's Gardens and other such areas were known as "pretended privileged places" but lost this status following the passing of the Escape of Debtors, etc. Act 1696.
The Central School of the National Society for Promoting Religious Education, where its teachers were trained, was in Baldwins Gardens from 1812 to 1832.
The Bourne Estate is a group of well-regarded Edwardian tenement blocks on the north side of the road.
References
- "Hatton Gardens Conservation Area Statement". London Borough of Camden. 1999. p. 5 (para 4.4). Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- Wheatley, Henry Benjamin (1891). London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, Volume 1. John Murray. p. 92. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- Morgan, William; Morden, Robert; Lea, Philip (1682). London &c. Actually Surveyed (image) (Map) (1904 ed.). 1:3600. London: London Topographical Society. § 2. Retrieved 28 June 2023 – via Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Noorthouck, John (1773). "17. From the Revolution to the death of William III". A New History of London Including Westminster and Southwark. Vol. 1. R Baldwin. pp. 272–288. Retrieved 28 June 2023 – via British History Online.
- Pickering, Danby (1764). Statutes at Large from the Eighth Year of King William III to the Second Year of Queen Anne. Cambridge. p. 94. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- Marsden, W. E. (4 August 2005). Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales. Taylor & Francis. p. 34. ISBN 9781135784096.
- Silver, Pamela; Silver, Harold (2013). The Education of the Poor The History of the National School 1824-1974. Taylor & Francis. p. 65. ISBN 9781135030698.
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