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It was created by Dean Vincent of Westminster School , a few hundred yards away, who, seeing that development was beginning to encroach on the wastelands of Tothill Fields, paid a man with a horse and plough to make a bank and ditch to enclose a suitable patch for the schoolboys. Until then the Tothill Fields had been a poor and dubious rural locality, where shooting snipe was the least objectionable of the pastimes enjoyed by the schoolboys at the "Five Chimneys", a disreputable tavern.

After the Second World War, the School with some difficulty resisted the efforts of the local Authority to retain its Square for public use. Nowadays, property in SW1, which the Dean simply appropriated, is very highly expensive.