Cadogan Lane
Cadogan Lane, originally Little Cadogan Place, is a street in Belgravia, London. It runs from Pont Street in the north to a junction with Cadogan Place and D'Oyley Street in the south. The lane is one of several in the area named after the Earls of Cadogan, with development beginning in 1777 and the lane laid out by 1799. It appears as Little Cadogan Place on Richard Horwood’s 1799 map and on George Bacon’s 1888 map.
In its early days Cadogan Lane had few buildings. It was mainly the back gardens, stables, and servants’ quarters for the large houses that fronted Cadogan Place, Chesham Place and Chesham Street. By mid-20th century some houses had front entrances on Cadogan Place and back entrances on Cadogan Lane; for example, number 39 housed Ronald Waterhouse as a student before his rise to a High Court judge.
During World War II Cadogan Lane was damaged by German bombs. The Cadogan Riding School, one of London’s largest with about 260 horses, and the studio of art collector Tommy de Walden (8th Baron Howard de Walden) were hit.
In the 1960s a flat on Cadogan Lane became a center for LSD experiments. Drug campaigner Michael Hollingshead visited, describing it as a lively scene with many young people on acid.
Judy Garland died in June 1969 at 4 Cadogan Lane. She was found by her husband Mickey Deans after an accidental barbiturate overdose.
After years of vacancy, 4 Cadogan Lane was slated for demolition in 2014 and replacement, but it wasn’t demolished until 2019. A bid to place a blue plaque from English Heritage failed because the owners did not consent.
In the early 1970s, Bruce Fogle worked at Woodrow & Singleton Veterinary Surgeons on the corner of Cadogan Lane and Pont Street.
This page was last edited on 3 February 2026, at 12:36 (CET).