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2017
Pont Street is a fashionable street in Knightsbridge/Belgravia, not far from the Knightsbridge department store Harrods.

The hills of Hampstead Heath provide the source of three lost rivers of London - the Westbourne, Tyburn and Fleet. These rivers were long buried underground and the modern streetscape contains few hints at these former watercourses.

Old maps show the routes that these rivers took. The Westbourne rises in two main places in Hampstead and then flowed south through Kilburn, over to Paddington and Bayswater before feeding the Serpentine in Hyde Park. Southwards it flowed through Knighsbridge and Sloane Square, joining the River Thames at Chelsea.

Before it reaches Kilburn, the River Westbourne forms two tributaries - the Cannon Stream and the Kilbourne.

Cannon Stream



Hampstead Heath in 1840.


Hampstead Heath in 1840.
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Cannon Stream became the name for the west branch of the minor brooks which, once merged together at Kilburn, become the Westbourne.

The northernmost source of the Westbourne is WHITESTONE POND


, which lies next to the highest point in the whole of north London (the highest point being these days occupied by a mobile phone tower). The pond was named after the white milestone marking the entrance to Hampstead, and its waters were once used to give military horses somewhere to drink.

From the pond the stream is imperceptible apart from during times of heavy rainfall but it runs to the southwest from Whitestone Pond. It takes a line parallel to, but to the north of Judges Walk.


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Hampstead Heath, with the House Called ‘The Salt Box’ - John Constable c.1819–20
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BRANCH HILL POND


has now disappeared, but the Westbourne once flowed through it. The location of the pond can still be seen as a distinct hollow in the heath which is still grassland at this point. John Constable (1776-1837) painted an important oil of Branch Hill Pond.

The rivulet continues to flow southwest, under modern Spedan Close


- when built in the 1970s, the most expensive council housing in the country and then follows the line of modern Reddington Gardens


. Here it combines with two tributaries; one from Oak Hill and another from Telegraph Hill. It follows the line of Heath Drive


before crossing under the Finchley Road where a very small dip in the road can still be ascertained.

Across the Finchley Road, Cannon Stream follows Cannon Hill


downhill. The Cannon names are a 19th century derivation. Charles Cannon was a dye merchant who lived at Kidderpore Hall, West Hampstead converted an old footpath into Cannon Hill - it was this hill which lent its name to the stream. until it reached the rear of an old inn called the COCK AND HOOP


 
and fed a small pond on West End Green


.

Crossing WEST END LANE


, Cannon Stream now flowed south through the fields which separated the boundary between what by the early nineteenth century were the Thorplands and Gilbert's Estate. It passed to the west of elevated ground in West Hampstead, under the modern Solent Road


, crossing present-day Sumatra Road


, crossing the two railways and then following the course of the length of Kingsgate Road


until reaching Kilburn, where Cannon Stream joins two other rivulets to form the main river Westbourne.

Other roads that the Cannon Stream crossed on this route are Holmdale Road


, Narcissus Road


 
(which English Indie rock band The Hours, named an album after), Liddle Road


, Quex Road


, Iverson Road


, Maygrove Road


and Birchington Road


.

Kilbourne


The second main feeder stream for the Westbourne was the Kilbourne, rising in a pond


in the grounds of a former grand house called Frognal Hall in Hampstead. Both the old mansion and the pond have now disappeared but the pond lies underneath what is now 62 Frognal.

The stream was was originally called the Kilbourne - cye-burna  (royal stream)  or cyna-burna (cow’s stream)  - sometimes spelled Kelebourne and gave its name to modern Kilburn.  Cuneburna as a name was first recorded in 1134.

Flowing south from the pond


through a field


, it continued beside Frognal


before crossing the line of the modern Hampstead Tunnel


.

At a point which at time of writing was the Langorf Hotel at 18 Frognal, it was joined by a tiny tributary


flowing from the east only a few hundred metres in length. The combined stream continues to follow Frognal and crosses under the Finchley Road


where Frognal meets the main road.

It flows under the modern O2 Centre


and behind Finchley Road tube station


before following a course west of the modern line of Goldhurst Terrace


. At the time of the 1830 map of the area, there was a pond


to the west - near to the junction of Fairhazel Gardens


and Greencroft Gardens


. On the way to this point, the Kilbourne crosses Broadhurst Gardens


and Canfield Gardens


. It also runs underneath the hidden glory that is Compayne Open Space


.

Under the railway to the west of South Hampstead station and after crossing underneath Belsize Road


, the stream roughly follows modern Ainsworth Way


, following under the modern parkland estate to that road's north. Under ABBEY ROAD


it flowed and then Mortimer Crescent


and Mortimer Place


, two roads with literary connections.


Kilburn Priory in 1750


Kilburn Priory in 1750
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The Kilbourne and Cannon Stream join together at Kilburn Priory


, which dated from 1134 - the days of Henry I. The priory was situated where the Westbourne crossed at the present site of the junction of Kilburn High Road and Belsize Road. It had been constructed on the location of the cell of a hermit known as Godwyn and was home to the community of Augustinian canonesses.

The priory, was dedicated to the “Blessed Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist”, became a renowned resting place for pilgrims stopping by on their way to St Albans. The river supplied the Priory’s moat and provided the inhabitants with water and fish until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1536 when the building was destroyed.

Priory lands incorporated a mansion and a guesthouse or hostium which may have constituted the basis of the Red Lion pub (believed to have been founded in 1444) and the BELL INN


 which found itself in due course next to a fashionable spring, opened in about 1600.

The water from this spring was then discovered to contain properties similar to Epsom Salts and gave rise to spas and pleasure gardens including the KILBURN WELLS


.

The two streams having combined, the story of the Westbourne proper continues underneath...

The Bell Inn, Kilburn (1750)




The Westbourne

Once under the Edgware Road at the former Kilburn Bridge


, the river has becomes the Westbourne. Until the river took this name in a back-formation from Westbourne Green (a place name which meant that it lay on the wet bank of a stream), it was called the Bayswater Rivulet. Whether Bayswater or Westbourne, it takes a somewhat circuitous route south...

Kilburn Bridge


, which was recorded in 1398 and thought to have been built in the mid 13th century by the prior of Kilburn, carried Edgware Road across the Kilburn brook (the Westbourne River). In 1826 the original stone bridge with a Gothic arch survived, flanked by brick portions added at two different periods. By that date repair was shared between the trustees of Marylebone turnpike and of the Kilburn Road. In more modern times, as the river has been culverted and sent underground, there is no trace of the structure.

Carlton Vale


 links the Edgware Road to Kilburn Lane. In 1850 the Reverend Edward Stuart sold 47 acres to a consortium of five developers, of whom the largest was James Bailey. They laid out roads and sewers and divided the site among themselves, subletting to smaller firms who built a few houses each. Carlton Vale was originally called Carlton Road and was laid out over the former fields of KILBURN BRIDGE FARM


. Several of the contractors aimed high with their early efforts but the isolated, muddy location - the vale being the flood plain of the Westbourne - failed to attract buyers and the estate remained incomplete for several decades. A new type of building, in red or multi-coloured brick, was used from the 1860s. It was soon to spread over the remaining unbuilt-upon land. Carlton Vale was extensively rebuilt after World War Two bombing.

Kilburn Park Road


 
was built along the course of the Bayswater Rivulet. Park Road, begun by 1855, was projected to run along the Willesden boundary - which ran along the stream - to meet the future Chippenham Road by 1861 and renamed Kilburn Park Road in 1862. Often straightened and culverted, as the Ranelagh sewer, before being built over, the Westbourne's course was still open (with its course straightened) in 1871 along the later line of both Kilburn Park Road and Shirland Road.

Shirland Road


Now entering the W9 postcode, Shirland Road follows the course of the Westbourne as it turns sharply to the south east. There were houses on the west side of Shirland Road, at the south end, by 1870. The river then followed Bristol Gardens


, W9 (13115). As late as 1857, Bristol Gardens still commanded uninterrupted country views to the north and west.





Opening day of the Kilburn Aqueduct
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One of the later curiosities of the Westbourne, is the Kilburn Aqueduct


. When the Grand Union Canal was built at the turn of the nineteenth century, the valley of the River Westbourne ran through what were known as the Kilburn Fields. To span the valley, the new canal was placed on a 30 foot high embankment to cross the river. Development of the area after the canal was built was causing the Westbourne to become an open sewer. Around the early 1820s locals complained the awful smell emanating from the Westbourne. It was culverted for a considerable distance either side of the aqueduct by 1823. By the 1830s when the area was under development, especially with regards to the railway, the Westbourne had its course diverted and straightened out onto a parallel close to the southern end of Westbourne Terrace, and culverted beneath that road.

Now entering Paddington, the river crossed the modern Bourne Terrace


, and Westbourne Green


.

Harrow Road crossed the Westbourne at a place then called Red Lion Bridge


. The Red Lion pub, a country pub beside the bridge, was moved 100 yards to the east when the first major change to the area came - the building of the Great Western Railway.

The Westbourne flowed south now to Bishop's Bridge Road


. Westbourne Green was an early settlement and obliterated by mid 19th-century building, much of which consisted of streets with the prefix Westbourne and was sometimes known as Westbournia. From the southern end of the hamlet, a footpath later called Bishop’s Walk (eventually Bishop’s Bridge Road) provided a short cut to Paddington Green. The cutting of the GWR line across the middle of Westbourne Green was begun in 1836, necessitating a slight northward realignment of Harrow Road. Since the railway obstructed the Paddington Green end of Bishop’s Walk, the footpath was replaced by Bishop’s Road, soon extended westward as Westbourne Grove. Most of the area between Bishop’s Road and the railway had been filled by 1855. The renamed (after the Second War) Bishop’s Bridge Road became lined by many types of building.





Westbourne Terrace at the turn of the 20th century
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After crossing Cleveland Gardens


, the Westbourne reaches Cleveland Square


. During the Second World War the area around Paddington station sustained substantial damage due to the bombing of the city. Cleveland Square sustained two direct hits destroying houses numbers 8 to 11. Several other buildings in neighbouring streets were also destroyed. There was an anti-aircraft Barrage Balloon stationed in the gardens of Cleveland Square and until recently one of the flower beds still had the huge concrete block with steel attachments buried among the plants. This bed has been named the ‘Balloon Bed’ in tribute and there is a commemorative plaque positioned there. Cleveland Square, which once rivalled Lancaster Gate as the most expensive address in Bayswater, has an unusually large private garden to serve the massive range of six storeys and basements on its north side.

As the former river flows towards Hyde Park, two street names reflect their heritage: Upbrook Mews


and Brook Mews North


. (There was also originally a Brook Mews South)

Bayard’s Bridge


took the Uxbridge Road (now Bayswater Road) over the River Westbourne. The name Bayswater - the Westbourne River's original name - is said to have derived from ’Bayard’s Watering Place’, first recorded here in 1380, a ‘bayard’ being a horse which would have taken water from the river. Another explanation is that the land now called Bayswater belonged to the Abbey of Westminster when the Domesday Book was compiled; the most considerable tenant under the abbot was Bainiardus, may therefore be concluded that this ground known for its springs of excellent water, once supplied water to Baynard, his household, or his cattle; that the memory of his name was preserved in the neighbourhood for six centuries; and that his watering-place now takes the abbreviated name Bayswater.

As it crossed royal Hyde Park, the Westbourne originally formed eleven natural ponds. In 1730, Queen Caroline, wife of George II, asked for huge ornamental lake to be created. This became The Serpentine


at the eastern end and the Long Water


at the western. Originally the lake was fed by the River Westbourne entering at the Italian Garden at the north-western end of the Long Water. Queen Caroline, ordered the damming of the River Westbourne in Hyde Park as part of a general redevelopment of Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. During the 1730s, the lake filled to its current size and shape. The redevelopment was carried out by Royal Gardener Charles Bridgeman, who dammed the Westbourne to create the artificial lake, and dug a large pond in the centre of Kensington Gardens (The Round Pond) to be a focal point for pathways in the park. At the time of construction, artificial lakes were typically long and straight. The Serpentine was one of the earliest artificial lakes designed to appear natural, and was widely imitated in parks and gardens nationwide. The Westbourne ceased to provide the water for the Serpentine in 1834, as the river had become polluted, and so water was then pumped from the Thames.

One of the hints of the former river lie in placenames - we have already seen Kilburn, Westbourne Green and Bayswater. The next one is Knightsbridge


.

It is recorded that the citizens of London met Matilda of England at the Knight's Bridge in 1141. Knightsbridge is now home to many expensive shops, including the department stores Harrods and Harvey Nichols, and flagship stores of many British and international fashion houses, including those of London-based shoe designers Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnik, and two Prada stores. Some of London's most renowned restaurants are here, as well as many exclusive hair and beauty salons, antiques and antiquities dealers, and chic bars and clubs. But it has also been the scene of many riots. In 1556, at the time of Wyatt’s insurrection, the rebel and his followers arrived at the Knight's Bridge hamlet at nightfall, and stayed there all night before advancing on London.

The course of the Westbourne having crossed William Mews, SW1


reaches Lowndes Square


and Lowndes Street


in Belgravia. Lowndes Square, a residential garden square, is home to some of the most expensive properties in the world. Roman Abramovich bought two stucco houses in Lowndes Square in 2008 worth £150 million, exceeding the value of the previous most expensive house in London and the UK, at £80 million. In 1824, Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster had commissioned the development of many buildings centred around Belgrave Square and Pimlico. The man he commissioned to develop this area was Thomas Cubitt, a builder from Norfolk and a partner, Seth Smith. Lowndes Street was developed from 1836 as part of the Cadogan Estate, also by Thomas Cubitt and Seth Smith. It was once part of the estate of William Lowndes of Chesham, after whom it is named.

Pont Street


 
(Bridge Street) is a fashionable street in Knightsbridge/Belgravia. Pont Street is referred to in Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited (1945), as a place related to typical English snobbery.

The bridge over the Westbourne at Sloane Square was called Blandel Bridge


and was later renamed Grosvenor Bridge. It was about twelve or fourteen feet wide, and had walls on either side high enough to protect passengers from falling into the river. It was nicknamed “Bloody Bridge” going back as 1590 so named allegedly following the murder of Lord Harrington’s cook who was attacked and beaten to death by highwaymen. Bloody Bridge once comprised of a footbridge with a plank before a more substantial bridge, 16 feet wide and lined by high walls, was built in the reign of Charles ll.

Sloane Square


originally looked much the same as it does today, except that the square was an open green space enclosed by wooden posts, connected by iron chains. It was here that Queen Charlotte’s Royal Volunteers often assembled, and marched off in military order to Hyde Park, headed by their band. In the early 1980s, it lent its name to the Sloane Rangers, the young underemployed and ostentatiously well-off members of the upper classes. Lady Diana Spencer, before she become Princess of Wales was considered the epitome of a Sloane Ranger. Sloane Square station


was opened on 24 December 1868 by the Metropolitan District Railway when the company opened the first section of its line. The construction of the station was complicated by the crossing of the site by the River Westbourne. The river was carried above the platform in a large iron pipe suspended from girders. It remains in place today Meanwhile, Sloane Square itself lies at the east end of the trendy King's Road and at the south end of Sloane Street.

Lord Cadogan and the Chelsea vestry agreed in 1886 to reorganize the roads south of Sloane Square: Lower Sloane Street was widened, while Little George Street, Chelsea Market, Evans Cottages, Viner Place, George Place, and Woods Buildings, all east of Lower Sloane Street, were closed; Lower George Street was also closed and its upper end was replaced by the wider Sloane Gardens, linking into Lower Sloane Street. The straight Holbein Place


replaced The Ditch, which had curved along the line of the Westbourne, and was linked to Lower Sloane Street by Holbein Mews.

The road from Westminster to Chelsea village was carried over the boundary by a stone bridge, documented from 1587 and it is probably the stone bridge which the vestry paid to mend in 1682. By the early 19th century a single-arch brick bridge in Grosvenor Row (later Pimlico Road


) had replaced the stone one. There was an inn in Grosvenor Row called the "The Three Compasses," well known as a starting-point for the Pimlico omnibuses. It was generally known as the "Goat and Compasses"—possibly a corruption of the text, "God encompasseth us". The Chelsea Bun House in Grosvenor Row was the home of the Chelsea Bun but also had a museum of curiosities. The Bun House was run by several members of a family named Hand.





Ranelagh Gardens
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By now, we are entering Chelsea and meandering past Ranelagh Grove


, the river reaches Ebury Bridge Road


. Ebury Bridge itself spanned the Grosvenor Canal, not the Westbourne. For a while in the mid 19th century Ebury Bridge Road was called Commercial Road and it skirted the Chelsea Barracks - now a redevelopment site, The road, when laid out, originally lay next to the Westbourne as it turned a corner on its way to the River Thames.

Chelsea Bridge Road


was built in the 1850s to connect Chelsea with its bridge. Next to it, the Ranelagh pleasure gardens opened in 1742 to become one of the most fashionable pleasure resorts of the 18th century, with access by river as well as by road. In the 1760s Sir Thomas Robinson, one of the proprietors of the pleasure gardens, built a mansion east of the rotunda to his own designs called Prospect Place, where he lived until his death in 1777; by the 1790s the house had been divided. In 1803 the pleasure gardens closed and Ranelagh House, its Rotunda and other features were cleared. This part of the estate then became gardens in the ownership of the Hospital. In 1857-8 Chelsea Bridge Road was laid in a straight line from a widened White Lion Street to the new Chelsea Bridge, sweeping away the later Ranelagh House.

After passing through the modern Royal Hospital Grounds, a vestige of the river, a wide quay, opens into the River Thames


some 270 metres west of Chelsea Bridge. An overflow outfall, from a pipe named the Ranelagh Sewer, can still be seen at low tide, as most of the Westbourne’s course has been used as a convenient depression in the land to place the local sewerage system, some of which takes surface water to form a combined sewer which links to two intercept sewers, the Middle Level Sewer and the Northern Low Level Sewer in the London sewerage system.




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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Born here
www.violettrefusis.com   
Added: 17 Feb 2021 15:05 GMT   

Birth place
Violet Trefusis, writer, cosmopolitan intellectual and patron of the Arts was born at 2 Wilton Crescent SW1X.

Source: www.violettrefusis.com

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Lynette beardwood   
Added: 29 Nov 2022 20:53 GMT   

Spy’s Club
Topham’s Hotel at 24-28 Ebury Street was called the Ebury Court Hotel. Its first proprietor was a Mrs Topham. In WW2 it was a favourite watering hole for the various intelligence organisations based in the Pimlico area. The first woman infiltrated into France in 1942, FANY Yvonne Rudellat, was recruited by the Special Operations Executive while working there. She died in Bergen Belsen in April 1945.

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LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

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Charles   
Added: 8 Mar 2024 20:45 GMT   

My House
I want to know who lived in my house in the 1860’s.

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NH   
Added: 7 Mar 2024 11:41 GMT   

Telephone House
Donald Hunter House, formerly Telephone House, was the BT Offices closed in 2000

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Paul Cox   
Added: 5 Mar 2024 22:18 GMT   

War damage reinstatement plans of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street
Whilst clearing my elderly Mothers house of general detritus, I’ve come across original plans (one on acetate) of No’s 11 & 13 Aldine Street. Might they be of interest or should I just dispose of them? There are 4 copies seemingly from the one single acetate example. Seems a shame to just junk them as the level of detail is exquisite. No worries if of no interest, but thought I’d put it out there.

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Diana   
Added: 28 Feb 2024 13:52 GMT   

New Inn Yard, E1
My great grandparents x 6 lived in New Inn Yard. On this date, their son was baptised in nearby St Leonard’s Church, Shoreditch

Source: BDM London, Cripplegate and Shoreditch registers written by church clerk.

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Vic Stanley   
Added: 24 Feb 2024 17:38 GMT   

Postcose
The postcode is SE15, NOT SE1

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Gillian   
Added: 17 Feb 2024 00:08 GMT   

No 36 Upper East Smithfield
My great great grandfather was born at No 36 Upper East Smithfield and spent his early years staring out at a "dead wall" of St Katharine’s Docks. His father was an outfitter and sold clothing for sailors. He describes the place as being backed by tenements in terrible condition and most of the people living there were Irish.

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Kevin Pont   
Added: 16 Feb 2024 20:32 GMT   

Name origin
Interestingly South Lambeth derives its name from the same source as Lambeth itself - a landing place for lambs.

But South Lambeth has no landing place - it is not on the River Thames

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C Hobbs   
Added: 31 Jan 2024 23:53 GMT   

George Gut (1853 - 1861)
George Gut, Master Baker lived with his family in Long Lane.
George was born in Bernbach, Hesse, Germany and came to the UK sometime in the 1840s. In 1849, George married an Englishwoman called Matilda Baker and became a nauralized Englishman. He was given the Freedom of the City of London (by Redemption in the Company of Bakers), in 1853 and was at that time, recorded as living at 3 Long Lane. In the 1861 census, George Gut was living at 11 Long Lane.

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Chester Street, SW1X Chester Street dates from 1805 (Belgravia)
Chester Street, SW1X
Clabon Mews, SW1X Clabon Mews, Lennox Gardens, Lennox Gardens Mews were laid out on a former cricket field (Chelsea)
Clabon Mews, SW1X
Cobham Court, SW1X Cobham Court is a block on Chester Close (Belgravia)
Cobham Court, SW1X
Conduit Street, SW1W Conduit Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1Wpostal area (Belgravia)
Conduit Street, SW1W
Dorchester Court, SW1X Dorchester Court is a building on Sloane Street (Chelsea)
Dorchester Court, SW1X
Dove Walk, SW1W Dove Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Dove Walk, SW1W
Duplex Ride, SW1X Duplex Ride is a road in the SW1X postcode area (Knightsbridge)
Duplex Ride, SW1X
Durley House, SW1X Durley House is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Durley House, SW1X
D’Oyley Street, SW1W D’Oyley Street is the southern extension of Cadogan Lane (Belgravia)
D’Oyley Street, SW1W
Earl Street, SW1X Earl Street was a short-lived street in Hans Town (Belgravia)
Earl Street, SW1X
Eaton Gate, SW1W Eaton Gate leads southwest from Eaton Square (Belgravia)
Eaton Gate, SW1W
Eaton Mews North, SW1W Eaton Mews North is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Eaton Mews North, SW1W
Eaton Mews South, SW1W Eaton Mews South runs across Eccleston Street (Belgravia)
Eaton Mews South, SW1W
Eaton Mews West, SW1W Eaton Mews West is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Eaton Mews West, SW1W
Eaton Place, SW1X Eaton Place was developed by Thomas Cubitt between 1826 and 1845 (Belgravia)
Eaton Place, SW1X
Eaton Row, SW1W Eaton Hall in Cheshire is the principal seat of the Duke of Westminster, owner of these streets and land of Belgravia (Belgravia)
Eaton Row, SW1W
Eaton Square, SW1W Eaton Square is one of the jewels in Belgravia’s crown. (Belgravia)
Eaton Square, SW1W
Eaton Terrace, SW1W Eaton Terrace is a street of elegant five and six storey terraced houses (Belgravia)
Eaton Terrace, SW1W
Ebury Mews, SW1W Ebury Mews is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Victoria)
Ebury Mews, SW1W
Ebury Street, SW1W Ebury Street runs from the Grosvenor Gardens junction south-westwards to Pimlico Road (Victoria)
Ebury Street, SW1W
Eccleston Bridge, SW1W Eccleston Bridge derives its name from Eccleston in Cheshire, where the Grosvenor family own property (Victoria)
Eccleston Bridge, SW1W
Eccleston Place, SW1W Eccleston Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Eccleston Place, SW1W
Eccleston Street, SW1W Eccleston Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Eccleston Street, SW1W
Edgo House, SW1X Edgo House is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Edgo House, SW1X
Elizabeth Street, SW1W Elizabeth Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Elizabeth Street, SW1W
Ellis Street, SW1X Ellis Street originated in 1791 (Belgravia)
Ellis Street, SW1X
Forbes House, SW1X Forbes House is located on Halkin Street (Hyde Park Corner)
Forbes House, SW1X
Fordie House, SW1X Fordie House is sited on Sloane Street (Chelsea)
Fordie House, SW1X
Frederic Mews, SW1X Frederic Mews is a mews off Kinnerton Street (Knightsbridge)
Frederic Mews, SW1X
Graham Terrace, SW1W Graham Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Graham Terrace, SW1W
Greville House, SW1X Greville House is a block on Halkin Arcade (Belgravia)
Greville House, SW1X
Groom Place, SW1X Groom Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Groom Place, SW1X
Grosvenor Court, SW1X Grosvenor Court is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Grosvenor Court, SW1X
Grosvenor Crescent Mews, SW1X Grosvenor Crescent Mews is a gated mews (Knightsbridge)
Grosvenor Crescent Mews, SW1X
Grosvenor Crescent, SW1X Grosvenor Crescent is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Knightsbridge)
Grosvenor Crescent, SW1X
Grosvenor Gardens Mews East, SW1W Grosvenor Gardens Mews East is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Grosvenor Gardens Mews East, SW1W
Grosvenor Gardens Mews North, SW1W Grosvenor Gardens Mews North is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Grosvenor Gardens Mews North, SW1W
Grosvenor Gardens, SW1W Grosvenor Gardens is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Grosvenor Gardens, SW1W
Grosvenor Place, SW1X Grosvenor Place is the main road connecting Hyde Park Corner with Victoria (Belgravia)
Grosvenor Place, SW1X
Halkin Arcade, SW1X Halkin Arcade is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Halkin Arcade, SW1X
Halkin Street, SW1X Halkin Street is named after a Grosvenor family property - Halkyn Castle in Wales (Belgravia)
Halkin Street, SW1X
Hans Crescent, SW1X Hans Crescent forms part of an area informally called Hans Town which dates back to the 18th century (Knightsbridge)
Hans Crescent, SW1X
Hans Place, SW1X Hans Place, a square, is named after Sir Hans Sloane, physician and collector, whose bequest became the foundation of the British Museum (Chelsea)
Hans Place, SW1X
Hans Street, SW1X Hans Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Hans Street, SW1X
Harriet Street, SW1X Harriet Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Harriet Street, SW1X
Harriet Walk, SW1X Harriet Walk is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Harriet Walk, SW1X
Headfort Place, SW1X Headfort Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Headfort Place, SW1X
Herbert Crescent, SW1X Herbert Crescent is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Knightsbridge)
Herbert Crescent, SW1X
Hobart Place, SW1W Hobart Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
Hobart Place, SW1W
Hugo House, SW1X Hugo House is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Hugo House, SW1X
Jefferson House, SW1X Jefferson House is a residential block on Basil Street (Knightsbridge)
Jefferson House, SW1X
Kilmuir House, SW1W Kilmuir House is a block on Ebury Street (Belgravia)
Kilmuir House, SW1W
Kinnerton Place North, SW1X Kinnerton Place North is a mews off Kinnerton Street (Knightsbridge)
Kinnerton Place North, SW1X
Kinnerton Place South, SW1X Kinnerton Place South is a mews off Kinnerton Street (Knightsbridge)
Kinnerton Place South, SW1X
Kinnerton Street, SW1X Kinnerton Street - a small winding street - was originally the service road for Wilton Place and Wilton Crescent. (Belgravia)
Kinnerton Street, SW1X
Kinnerton Yard, SW1X Kinnerton Yard is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Kinnerton Yard, SW1X
Knightsbridge Court, SW1X Knightsbridge Court is a small alleyway off Sloane Street (Knightsbridge)
Knightsbridge Court, SW1X
Knightsbridge Court, SW3 Knightsbridge Court is a block on Pavilion Road (Knightsbridge)
Knightsbridge Court, SW3
Knowsley House, SW1X Knowsley House can be found on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Knowsley House, SW1X
Little Chester Street, SW1X Little Chester Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Little Chester Street, SW1X
Lower Belgrave Street, SW1W Lower Belgrave Street connects Buckingham Palace Road with Eaton Square (Victoria)
Lower Belgrave Street, SW1W
Lowndes House, SW1X Lowndes House is a block on Lowndes Place (Belgravia)
Lowndes House, SW1X
Lowndes Square, SW1X Lowndes Square is named after the Secretary to the Treasury William Lowndes (Belgravia)
Lowndes Square, SW1X
Lowndes Street, SW1X Lowndes Street was built by Thomas Cubitt and Seth Smith (Belgravia)
Lowndes Street, SW1X
Lyall Mews West, SW1X Lyall Mews West is a road in the SW1X postcode area (Belgravia)
Lyall Mews West, SW1X
Lyall Mews, SW1X Lyall Mews is a road in the SW1X postcode area (Belgravia)
Lyall Mews, SW1X
Lyall Street, SW1X Lyall Street extends southward from Chesham Place to Eaton Square, transitioning into Elizabeth Street at Eaton Square (Belgravia)
Lyall Street, SW1X
Montrose House, SW1X Montrose House is a block on Headfort Place (Belgravia)
Montrose House, SW1X
Montrose Place, SW1X Montrose Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Montrose Place, SW1X
Motcomb House, SW1X Motcomb House can be found on Motcomb Street (Belgravia)
Motcomb House, SW1X
Motcomb Street, SW1X Motcomb Street is a now pedestrianised street in Belgravia (Belgravia)
Motcomb Street, SW1X
Oakley House, SW1X Oakley House is a building on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Oakley House, SW1X
Old Barrack Yard, SW1X Old Barrack Yard is a narrow street of terraced cottages (Knightsbridge)
Old Barrack Yard, SW1X
Park Mansions, SW1X Park Mansions is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Knightsbridge)
Park Mansions, SW1X
Pavilion Road, SW1X Pavilion Road is London’s longest mews and runs parallel to Sloane Street (Chelsea)
Pavilion Road, SW1X
Pembroke Close, SW1X Pembroke Close is a road in the SW1X postcode area (Hyde Park Corner)
Pembroke Close, SW1X
Pembroke Mews North, SW1X Pembroke Mews North is the former name of an extension to the current Pembroke Close (Hyde Park Corner)
Pembroke Mews North, SW1X
Phipps Mews, SW1W Phipps Mews is a road in the SW1W postcode area (Victoria)
Phipps Mews, SW1W
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Pont Street, SW1X Pont Street is a fashionable street in Knightsbridge/Belgravia, not far from the Knightsbridge department store Harrods (Belgravia)
Pont Street, SW1X
Richmond Court, SW1X Richmond Court is a block on Sloane Street (Knightsbridge)
Richmond Court, SW1X
Roberts Mews, SW1X Roberts Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Roberts Mews, SW1X
Seaford House, SW1X Seaford House is a block on Belgrave Square (Belgravia)
Seaford House, SW1X
Shelton House, SW1X Shelton House is a block on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Shelton House, SW1X
Sloane House, SW1X Sloane House is located on Sloane Street (Belgravia)
Sloane House, SW1X
Sloane Street, SW1X Sloane Street runs north to south, from Knightsbridge to Sloane Square, taking its name from Sir Hans Sloane, who purchased the surrounding area in 1712 (Belgravia)
Sloane Street, SW1X
South Eaton Place, SW1W South Eaton Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Belgravia)
South Eaton Place, SW1W
Stackhouse Street, SW1X Stackhouse Street is a road in the SW1X postcode area (Knightsbridge)
Stackhouse Street, SW1X
Studio Place, SW1X Studio Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Knightsbridge)
Studio Place, SW1X
Thorburn House, SW1X Thorburn House is a block on William Mews (Belgravia)
Thorburn House, SW1X
Upper Belgrave Street, SW1X Upper Belgrave Street was constructed in the 1840s to connect Belgrave Square with the King’s Road (Belgravia)
Upper Belgrave Street, SW1X
Victoria Place, SW1W Victoria Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area (Victoria)
Victoria Place, SW1W
West Eaton Place Mews, SW1X West Eaton Place Mews is a road in the SW1X postcode area (Belgravia)
West Eaton Place Mews, SW1X
West Eaton Place, SW1W West Eaton Place lies off Eaton Place (Belgravia)
West Eaton Place, SW1W
West Halkin Street, SW1X West Halkin Street is named after Halkyn Castle, originally a Grosvenor family property in Flintshire, Wales (Belgravia)
West Halkin Street, SW1X
Whaddon House, SW1X Whaddon House is a block on William Mews (Belgravia)
Whaddon House, SW1X
William Mews, SW1X William Mews is a partially redeveloped, private Mews off Lowndes Square (Knightsbridge)
William Mews, SW1X
William Street, SW1X William Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Knightsbridge)
William Street, SW1X
Wilton Crescent, SW1X Wilton Crescent is notable for its affluent and politically important list of residents, present and historic (Belgravia)
Wilton Crescent, SW1X
Wilton Mews, SW1X Wilton Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Wilton Mews, SW1X
Wilton Place, SW1X Wilton Place was built in 1825 to connect Belgravia with Knightsbridge. (Knightsbridge)
Wilton Place, SW1X
Wilton Row, SW1X Wilton Row is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Knightsbridge)
Wilton Row, SW1X
Wilton Street, SW1X Wilton Street was built in 1817 (Belgravia)
Wilton Street, SW1X
Wilton Terrace, SW1X Wilton Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area (Belgravia)
Wilton Terrace, SW1X

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