Street names of Marylebone

This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Marylebone. The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Marylebone viz. Marylebone Road to the north, Great Portland Street to the east, Marble Arch and Oxford Street to the south and Edgware Road to the west.

A
  • Aldburgh Mews
  • All Soul's Place – after the adjacent All Souls Place[1]
  • Ashland Place – thought to be a Victorian-era alteration of its former name Burying Ground Passage, after the adjacent St Marylebone Parish Church[2]
  • Aybrook Street – roughly follows the path of the former Aye (or Eye Brook)[3][4]

B
  • Baker's Mews and Baker Street – after Edward Baker, friend and business partner of the Portman family[5][6]
  • Barrett Street – after Thomas Barret, local 18th century landowner[7][8]
  • Beaumont Mews and Beaumont Street – after Sir Beaumont Hotham, local leaseholder in the late 18th century[9][10]
  • Bentinck Mews and Bentinck Street – after William Bentinck, 2nd Duke of Portland, who inherited the local estate after marrying Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland in 1734[11][12]
  • Berkeley Mews and Upper Berkeley Street – after Henry William Berkeley, who inherited the local Portman estate via his mother[13][14]
  • Beverston Mews
  • Bingham Place – after Bingham in Nottinghamshire, where local landowners the dukes of Portland owned property[15][16]
  • Bird Street – after Thomas Bird, local 18th century bricklayer[17][16]
  • Blandford Street – after Blandford Forum, Dorset, where the local Portman family had a seat[18][8][19]
  • Bourne Mews
  • Brendon Street – unknown[20]
  • Bridford Mews – after Bridford in Devon, by association with the nearby Devonshire Street[21][22]
  • Broadstone Place – after Broadstone, Dorset, where local landowners the dukes of Portland owned property[23][19]
  • Brown Street – named after Mr Brown, local 19th century builder[24][25]
  • Browning Mews – after the poet Robert Browning, who married local resident Elizabeth Barret[25]
  • Brunswick Mews – after the Brunswick Chapel, formerly located near here on Upper Berkeley Street[25]
  • Bryanston Mews East, Bryanston Mews West, Bryanston Place, Bryanston Square and Bryanston Street – after Bryanston in Dorset, where local landowners the dukes of Portland owned property[26][27]
  • Bulstrode Place and Bulstrode Street – after local landowners the Bentinck family, who also owned land at Bulstrode Park in Buckinghamshire[28][29]

C
  • Cabbell Street – after George Cabbell, local landowner in the 1790s[30][31]
  • Castlereagh Street – after Robert Stewart, 2nd Marquess of Londonderry, Lord Castlereagh, prominent politician of the 17th – 18th centuries[32][33]
  • Cato Street – named by landowner John Harcourt, in allusion to the Roman Cato; it was changed for a period to Horace Street (after the Roman poet) owing to the notoriety of the Cato Street conspiracy, but the original name was restored[34][35]
  • Cavendish Mews North, Cavendish Mews South, Cavendish Place, Cavendish Square, Cavendish Street, New Cavendish Street and Old Cavendish Street – after Henry Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, father of Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer, who married Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer, landowner[36][37]
  • Chandos Street – after the Duke of Chandos, who built a mansion nearby in the 1710s[38][39]
  • Chapel Place – after the nearby St Peter, Vere Street church, formerly a chapel of ease[38][40]
  • Chapel Street – after a former chapel on this site, opened 1772, closed in the 1850s[38][40]
  • Chiltern Street – after the nearby Marylebone station, from where train to the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire depart[41]
  • Circus Mews – the street to which it adjoins, Enford Street, was formerly supposed to lead to a circus (Junction), however it was never built[42][43]
  • Clarke's Mews – after William Clarke, local 18th century landowner[44][45]
  • Clenston Mews – after Winterborne Clenston in Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18][19]
  • Cramer Street – after the violinist Wilhelm Cramer, who lived near here[46][47]
  • Crawford Mews, Crawford Place and Crawford Street – after Tarrant Crawford in Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18][19]
  • Cross Keys Close – after the former Cross Keys tavern here, named for local 18th century street developer Philip Keys[48]

D
  • David Mews – after David Porter, builder of the nearby Montagu Square[49]
  • Dean's Mews – thought to be for a Catholic college formerly located here[50]
  • Devonshire Close, Devonshire Mews North, Devonshire Mews South, Devonshire Mews West, Devonshire Place, Devonshire Place Mews, Devonshire Row Mews and Devonshire Street – after local landowner the Cavendish family, who had a branch which became the dukes of Devonshire[51][37]
  • De Walden Street – after Baroness Howard de Walden, local landowner[51][52]
  • Dorset Street – after Dorset, where the local Portman family owned much land[18][53]
  • Duchess Mews and Duchess Street – by association with the dukes and duchesses of Portland, local landowners, possibly specifically Dorothy Duchess of Portland[54][55]
  • Duke's Mews and Duke Street – it is unknown precisely which duke, if any, this street commemorates[56]
  • Dunstable Mews – unknown; prior to 1935 it was Upper Wimpole Mews[57]
  • Durweston Street – after Durweston, Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18][19]

E
  • Easleys Mews – after Abraham Easley, 18th century landowner[58][59]
  • Edgware Road – as it leads to Edgware, Middlesex[60][61]
  • Edwards Mews – after Edward Gray, local 18th century leaseholder[62]
  • Enford Street – after Enford, Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land; the street was formerly known as Circus Street[18][19]

F
  • Fitzhardinge Street – after Viscount Fitzhardinge, relative of Henry William Berkeley, local landowner[13][19]
  • Forset Street – after Edward Forset (or Forsett), surveyor with the department of works, who owned land here in the 16th – 17th century[63][64]

G
  • Garbutt Place – named in 1894 after William Garbutt, local vestry clerk and later borough town clerk[65][66]
  • Gee's Court
  • George Street – after king George III, reigning king when the street was built[67][68]
  • Gildea Stree
  • Gloucester Place and Gloucester Place Mews – after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, Duke of Gloucester, son of King George II[69][70]
  • Granville Place – probably after Granville George Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville, prominent Victorian politician[71][72]
  • Gray's Yard – after Edward Gray, local leaseholder of the 18th century[71][62]
  • Great Castle Street – after the former nearby pub The Castle[73][74]
  • Great Cumberland Mews and Great Cumberland Place – after Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, son of King George II; it was formerly Tyburn Gate, after the brook that ran here[75][76]
  • Grotto Passage – site of a former shell grotto owned by John Castle, closed circa 1760[77][78]

H

J
  • Jacob's Well Mews – after Jacob Hinde, husband of Anne Thayer, who inherited this land from her father Thomas Thayer[90][91]
  • James Street – unknown[94]
  • Jason's Court
  • John Prince's Street – after John Prince, surveyor to the Cavendish-Harley estate in the 1710s[95][96]

K
  • Kendall Place – after William Kendall, local builder and timber merchant in the 18th century[97][98]
  • Kenrick Place – after William Kenrick, local lecturer and writer in the 18th century[99][98]
  • Knox Street – unknown[100]

L
  • Langham Place and Langham Street – after Sir James Langham, who owned a house near here in the early 19th century[101][102]
  • Luxborough Street – unknown[103]

M

N
  • Nottingham Place and Nottingham Street – after Nottinghamshire, where local landowners the dukes of Portland owned property[15][119]
  • Nutford Place – after Nutford in Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18][19]

O

P

Q
  • Quebec Mews, New Quebec Street and Old Quebec Street – after the former Quebec Chapel on this site, named after the Battle of Quebec, built 1787 demolished in 1912[132][120]
  • Queen Anne Mews and Queen Anne Street – after Queen Anne; it was originally meant to lead to a square called Queen Anne Square, however this was never completed[133][134]

R
  • Regent Street – made in the 1810s by John Nash and named after the Prince Regent, later George IV[135][136]
  • Riding House Street – unknown, presumably for a local riding school; it was formerly Riding House Lane[137][138]
  • Robert Adam Street – after Robert Adam, 18th century architect; originally it was just Adams Street, after 18th century developer Samuel Adams[139][138]
  • Romney Mews

S
  • St Christopher's Place – Octavia Hill, social reformer, cleared the slums of this area and named it in honour of St Christopher; formerly it was Barrett's Court, after Thomas Barret, local 18th century landowner[140][141]
  • St Vincent Street – after the nearby school founded by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul[142][143]
  • Salisbury Place – after the Salisbury brothers (Isaac, John and Thomas), local 18th century builders[142][144]
  • Seymour Mews, Seymour Place and Seymour Street – after Anne Seymour, mother of Henry William Portman, and through whom he inherited the estate[145][146]
  • Sherlock Mews – after the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, who lived on Baker Street[147][148]
  • Shillibeer Place – after George Shillibeer, owner of a local coaching business in the 19th century[147][114]
  • Shouldham Street – after Molyneux Shuldham, 18th century naval officer[113][114]
  • Spanish Place – nearby Hertford House on Manchester Square was formerly home to the Spanish ambassador[149][150]
  • Stratford Place – after Edward Stratford, who owned a house nearby and built this street in the 1770s[151][62]
  • Stourcliffe Street

T
  • Tarrant Place – probably after Tarrant Crawford in Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18]
  • Thayer Street – after Anne Thayer, who inherited this land from her father Thomas Thayer; the street was built in the 1770s by her husband Jacob Hinde[152][91]
  • Thornton Place – after Sophia Thornton, mother of Ronald Leslie-Melville, 11th Earl of Leven; the earl married Emma Selina Portman, whose brother Gerald Berkeley Portman, 7th Viscount Portman named this street in her honour[153][19]
  • Transept Street – after a former chapel on this site, opened 1772, closed in the 1850s,[38]or possibly after the former cross shape created by this street crossing Chapel Street[154]

V
  • Vere Street – named by the Harley family, earls of Oxford in honour of the De Vere family, who had held the earldom from 1155 until 1703 when the 20th earl died without issue[155][156]
  • Virgil Place – named by landowner John Harcourt, in allusion to the Roman poet Virgil[34][157]

W

Y

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