Behind the stucco crescents runs a parallel city of cobbled mews — carriage lanes turned garden streets. Three picks between Portobello and the communal gardens.
Notting Hill’s mews are the Victorian back-of-house made front-of-house: cobbled service lanes behind the crescents, now painted, planted, and quiet. Their narrow section and the wisteria the residents train across them keep the lanes cool while Portobello Road bakes under market crowds two streets over.
These picks run the best mews chain, the market’s awning stretch, and the Ladbroke communal-garden rim where the plane trees do borough-scale work.
The pastel mews of film fame, then the market’s stall-awning canyon south.
The rim of the great communal gardens — plane canopy over the crescent pavements.
Past the Travel Bookshop block, south under the avenue limes into the park’s Kyoto Garden.
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