Ufford Street Gardens

Ufford Street Gardens is built on land once known as ‘Chalcroft Meadow’, part of the original Manor of Lambeth. In the early 19th Century it was redeveloped for housing, but by 1901 the estate was redeveloped by its owners, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who then set part of it aside for a new public open space. Lambeth Borough Council then laid out and opened the new open space in 1907. The site, as is the nearby street, is named after John de Ufford, Archbishop-elect of Canterbury, who died in 1349 before he could be formally consecrated to the title.