Hoxton Square
Names
- Hoxton Square
Street/Area/District
- Hoxton Square
Maps & Views
- 1746 London, Westminster & Southwark (Rocque): Hoxton Square
- 1761 London (Dodsley): Hoxton Square
- 1799 London (Horwood): Hoxton Square
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Hoxton square, on the W. side of the N. end of Shore ditch. It is a pleasant Square, being an Oblong or Parallellogram, whose Area is above 1½ Acres, and the Center from PC. NE, 2270 Yds.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Hoxton square, Hoxton.
from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)
Hoxton-Square, Hoxton,—two doors on the L. from that part of Old-street-road, which is op. the Curtain-road, about 1/7 of a mile W. from Shoreditch-church.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Hoxton-Sq., is two houses on the left hand from that part of Old-street-road, which is opposite the Curtain-road.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Hoxton Square was the property of Israel Wilkes, the father of John Wilkes, of No. 45 notoriety, a part of the dowry brought him by his rich wife. In Charles Square lived the Rev. John Newton, Cowper's correspondent and author of many popular hymns. [See St. Mary Woolnoth.] In Hoxton Street is the Britannia Theatre (rebuilt 1858), one of the largest of the east-end houses, where domestic melodrama of an exciting kind is generally well played.