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.

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

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