Baldwins Gardens

The surrounding streets were laid out in the 17th century on an intersecting grid pattern from north to south, east to west.

[3] In the 17th century, as Baldwin's Gardens, the street offered sanctuary to debtors seeking to escape their creditors.

[4] 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.

[5] The Central School of the National Society for Promoting Religious Education, where its teachers were trained, was in Baldwins Gardens from 1812 to 1832.

[6][7] The Bourne Estate is a group of well-regarded Edwardian tenement blocks on the north side of the road.