Crawford Place
Crawford Place is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London. The street was developed in the first decade of the 1800s and was original known as John Street West. Location The street runs from Edgware Road in the west to the junction of Homer Row, Shouldham Street, and Crawford Street in the east. Brendon Street, Cato Street, London, Cato Street, and Molyneux Street run south from Crawford Place. Watson's Mews is off the north side of Crawford Place. History The street and the adjacent streets to the east of Edgware Road were laid out in the first decade of the 1800s as an area of "fourth rate" terraced housing. Christopher Greenwood (cartographer), Greenwood's map of 1830 shows it marked as John Street West. It is now known as Crawford Place and there are several streets in the area named after Tarrant Crawford, a property in Dorset owned by the Portman Estate, Portman family who owned much of the land in Marylebone. The street is mostly within t ...
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The Larrick Public House, Crawford Place, London W1 - Geograph
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