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The area of the Boro ugh is 2,694 acres, but by no means the whole of that
area is built over. Preserved open spaces exist in Begent's Park, Parliament
Hill Fields, Higligate Cemetery and Waterlow Park and elsewhere, and there
is a good deal of land devoted to railway purposes. The open spaces are
shown in the following table:—
Acres.
1 Ampthill Square 1.00
2 Argyle Square .80
3 Brunswick Square 2.30
4 Camden Gardens .47
5 Camden Square 2.07
6 Cartwright Gardens 1.45
7 Clarence Gardens .70
8 College Gardens .10
9 The Crescent, Camden
Road .54
10 The Crescent
closure, Euston street .22
11 Endsleigh Gardens 2.40
12 Euston Square 2.20
13 Fitzroy Square .75
14 Goldington Crescent .50
15 Gordon Square 2.30
16 Harrington Square 1.00
17 Highgate Road Open
Spaces .86
18 Leighton Crescent
closure .29
19 Lismore Circus
closure .66
20 Maitland Park Villas
Enclosure .64
21 Mecklenburgh Square 2.50
22 Mornington Crescent 2.84
23 Munster Square .46
Acres.
24 Oakley Square 1.75
25 Parliament Hill (total
area 267¾ acres) 194.00
26 Pond Square Enclosure .80
27 Primrose Hill Park 30.00
28 Regent's Park (total
area 400 acres) 72.50
29 Regent's Park Terrace
Enclosure .20
30 Regent Square .70
31 Rochester Square 1.08
32 St. Andrew's Gardens 1.25
33 St. George's Gardens
(including burial
ground) 2.50
34 St. George's Square .43
35 St. James's Gardens 2.66
36 St. Martin's Gardens 1.75
37 St. Pancras Gardens 5.25
38 Tavistock Square 2.30
39 Waterloo Park 29.00
40 Whitfield Recreation
Grounds, Tottenham
Court Road 0.50
373.72
There is also a limited amount of other unbuilt-on land in the north of
the Borough.
The main lines and other property of the Great Northern, Midland and
North-Western Railways, divide up the Borough to a considerable degree and
tend to isolate one district from another.
Geologically, the whole Borough has for subsoil the London clay, except
for superficial deposits of gravels in the extreme south, and of lower Bagshot
sand in the extreme north (Highgate).
The occupations of the residents in the Borough at the time of the 1911
census are shown in the following Table, which is a summary of the
census returns:—