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Wellington Square, Chelsea

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38: 46: 30: 22: 68:. It was built in the first decades of the nineteenth century on the former site of a nursery owned by the florist and "well-known tulip-fancier" Thomas Davey and named after the Duke of Wellington. The square consists of 35 five-storey terraced stucco houses around a central garden with a fountain. The whole square is grade II listed with Historic England. 71:
In 1870 it was the location of a double-murder. A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, lived there in the early 1900s as well as the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley in the 1920s. It was the home of fictional spy
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in 2020, "The spies who lived here: How I found James Bond’s precise address", but after extensive research concluded that Bond lived at number 25, not number 30. Fleming lived nearby at 24
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King's Road and Smith Street c.1800 before the development of Wellington Square. The site of the square is adjacent to the plot marked Morley's.
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Walter Millar, who was undertaking work on the house which was owned by Huelin. Huelin was assistant chaplain at
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houses built in the early to mid-nineteenth century. It was built on the site of a
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in Chelsea off the King's Road. According to Fleming's biographer and friend
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and a prominent local property owner and landlord, who lived nearby at 15
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The History of the Squares of London: Topographical & historical.
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Number 32 was the home of the fictional characters Lucy Carlesi (
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Abridged edition. London: Bloomsbury. p. 193. ISBN 1582341303
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when he put the finishing touches to the first Bond novel,
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Squares in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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Oxford: Watkins Publishing. p. 258. ISBN 9781780283845
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owned by the florist and "well-known tulip-fancier"
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Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
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British History Online. Retrieved 25 December 2021.
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Garden fountain in Wellington Square

garden square
Chelsea
King's Road
James Bond
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
cul-de-sac
stucco
nursery
Thomas Davey
grade II listed
Historic England
Elias Huelin
odd-job man
Brompton Cemetery
Paultons Square
Ian Fleming
James Bond
plane trees
John Pearson
William Boyd
The Times Literary Supplement
Cheyne Walk
Casino Royale
John Le Carre
George Smiley
Bywater Street

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