Montagu Square

Montagu Square is a long Georgian residential square in London's Marylebone, just north of Marble Arch. Architect Joseph Parkinson laid it out between 1810 and 1815 as part of the Portman Estate; the narrow brick terraces with white stucco basements form one of the more intact late-Georgian squares in central London. Number 34 became an address of pop history in the 1960s: Ringo Starr lived there briefly, then sublet to Paul McCartney, who recorded demos in the basement; to Jimi Hendrix, who wrote Daydream and The Wind Cries Mary there; and to John Lennon and Yoko Ono, who shot the cover photographs for Two Virgins on the premises in 1968. The square is quiet residential today; an English Heritage plaque at no. 34 recalls its tenants. Visitors usually pass through by chance between Marble Arch and Marylebone High Street.