Baldwins Gardens
Baldwins Gardens is an east–west street in Camden, London, running from Gray's Inn Road to Leather Lane. The surrounding streets were laid out in the 1600s in a grid pattern. The street is named after Baldwin, a gardener to Queen Elizabeth I, and it appears on an 1682 map of London.
In the 17th century, Baldwins Gardens was a refuge for debtors trying to escape creditors. Some parts of London were known as "pretended privileged places" where debtors could hide, but this status ended after the Escape of Debtors Act of 1696.
From 1812 to 1832, the Central School of the National Society for Promoting Religious Education trained teachers in Baldwins Gardens.
On the north side of the street is the Bourne Estate, a group of Edwardian tenement blocks.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 18:48 (CET).