Saxe-Coburg Square

Also known as Coburg Square

other
Victorian terrace

Dingy small square with two-story brick houses, railed enclosure, weedy grass, faded laurels, and a pawnbroker at the corner.

Type: other
Style: Victorian terrace
First appears: Book 2 · Ch. 3
Books: 1

Saxe-Coburg Square first appears in "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" as a modest, slightly shabby London square anchored by a pawnbroker’s shop at the corner. The square’s unremarkable façade conceals the subterranean tunnel that Jabez Wilson’s Red-Headed League unwittingly helps excavate, making the location the literal and figurative foundation of one of Holmes’s most celebrated cases. Across the series the square never reappears, yet its single outing cements its place in the Holmes canon as the quiet epicenter of criminal ingenuity.

History

BOOK 2The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Dingy small square with two-story brick houses, railed enclosure, weedy grass, faded laurels, and a pawnbroker at the corner.