It was in this chapel, St Peter's of Paddington Green, that the painter William Hogarth secretly married Jane Thornhill in 1729.
In the cemetery is buried the actress Sarah Siddons (1755-1831), who lived nearby on a farm in Westbourne Green.

Open only to pedestrians, this square surrounded by restaurants and cinemas is incredibly vibrant. In the middle is the fountain erected in 1874 in memory of Shakespeare opposite the Statue of Charlie Chaplin by John Doubleday (1980).
Leicester Square was once a garden in front of the manor house of the Sydney's, Earls of Leicester, built on the north side. In the 18C, this square became an elegant place where well to do artists such as Reynolds and Hogarth lived.

Kensington Palace was the London residence of the monarchy from 1689 to 1760 and in 1837 the young Princess Victoria lived there before her accession to the throne. Today some members of the Royal family still live there. The Palace resembles a vast country house residence and houses the sumptuous State Apartments as well as an important collection of coronation robes and court dress.

By 1650, a developer who had purchased the common fields to the west of Lincoln's Inn had surrounded them on three sides with houses. Of that period, one, Lindsey House, remains and was probably designed by the famous architect Inigo Jones. 18C houses include the Palladian-style (from Palladio, a 16C Italian architect) nos 57-58 dating from 1730, and Powis House (1777). The south side is occupied by official buildings, one of which houses the Hunterian Museum dedicated to anatomy.