Only just found this place after walking through the area for years. It’s near the Brunswick Centre and Goodenough College. I got in through the entrance at the end of Handel Street. It was an 18th century graveyard that got filled up by the mid 19th century and was one of the first, or the first, to be turned into a garden, a sitting room for the people to quote the sign. There are lovely huge flowerbeds and grassed areas, dotted with huge old anti-body snatching tombs. So this is the place to head to on a sunny day if you’re in the area, because no-one knows it’s here!
Update: had a picnic in here yesterday (15th) and I can confirm my suspicions were correct, this is a good place to have a picnic. We stocked up at Waitrose on big french bread things, brie, dried tomatoes, houmous, slices of ham and so on, and sat between the graves in the sun. There were a couple of shy teenagers trying to look a bit threatening, and then one genuine hoody roared through on a presumably stolen scooter, but that was the only trouble. And it was more amusing than anything.
There were only ten other people in there the whole time, and they were just quiet. We managed to lure a squirrel towards us with a bit of bread, then someone who shall remain unnamed chucked a piece of bread that was too big and it ran off, content. Shame. Then off for pints in the Young’s pub in Conduit street.

Wonderfully secluded graveyard gardens, especially beautiful in summer surrounded by a haze of blooms and smelling of damp earth. Read the centuries-old gravestones lined up against the gardens’ walls, or peer into the depths of a tomb whose bricks have crumbled into darkness…or just sit and eat your lunch on the grass. A hidden beauty spot of ghostly atmosphere and a glimpse of London of bygone days. As children we used to climb the tombstones to search for bones, or read the names and tell stories about the people who once lived nearby so long ago.