Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a central park which is surrounded by luxury shops and financial institutions. It's in the West End neighborhood in Westminster. They began to construct this area during an urban development phase in the eighteenth century and it's named after an original family from Gloucester, the Berkeley's.

The Berkeley House, their London residence, was at the time the most luxurious home in the area, but now it is gone. Berkeley Square is a residential place where Winston Churchill lived as a child, at number 48. Another Prime Minister, George Canning, lived at number 48 as well.