Qualla: Berkeley Square https://qualla.com/berkeley-square en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/berkeley-square-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Berkeley Square https://qualla.com/berkeley-square Berkeley Square: Introduction https://qualla.com/berkeley-square/ Photo credit Ricardalovesmonuments, CC BY-SA 4.0. The plane trees at the center of Berkeley Square were planted in 1789 — the year the Bastille fell — and they are still there, now among the oldest trees in central London. In 2008 one of them was declared the most valuable street tree in Britain by the London Tree Officers Association, assessed for its size, health, historical significance, and the density of people living near it. The French Revolution changed the world; the trees grew on.

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/berkeley-square-wp/gcpv-berkeley-square-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Berkeley Square: A Garden That Was a View https://qualla.com/berkeley-square/ Photo credit No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0. Berkeley Square began as the bottom of a private garden. In 1696, John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton, sold Berkeley House on Piccadilly to William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, but kept the southern portion of the garden — including the site of what would become t...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/berkeley-square-wp/gcpv-berkeley-square-a-whos-who-of-residents.mp3 0:06 3 full Berkeley Square: Fiction, Ghosts, and a Nightingale https://qualla.com/berkeley-square/ Photo credit No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0. Berkeley Square has attracted fictional residents with the same enthusiasm as real ones. P. G. Wodehouse placed Bertie Wooster near the square — his flat on Berkeley Street, the Drones Club a short walk away. The building at Number 50 has been styled 'The Most Haunted House in Lo...

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]]> Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/berkeley-square-wp/gcpv-berkeley-square-fiction-ghosts-and-a-nightingale.mp3 0:06 4 full Berkeley Square: Mayfair's Living Room https://qualla.com/berkeley-square/ Photo credit No Swan So Fine, CC BY-SA 4.0. The square functions today as a relatively quiet oasis in one of the most expensive and commercially dense neighborhoods in the world. The gardens are Grade II listed on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. They are, by horticulturalists' standards, quite plain — mostly gr...

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