Abercorn Place is a street in

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. Located in the

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, it runs west to east from the

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until it joins

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not far from the

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to the south. It is crossed by

Hamilton Terrace Hamilton Terrace is a wide, tree-lined residential thoroughfare in St John's Wood, London, England. It runs north to south from Carlton Hill to St. John's Wood Road, and is parallel to Maida Vale to the west. The street was named after Charles H ...

. The street is named after the

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, an

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. It was part of an estate originally owned by

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of which Abercorn was a governor with other nearby streets similarly named. The street contains a mixture of housing from the 1820s onwards. Several buildings in the street are

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today. The

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was built in 1847 at the intersection with Hamilton Terrace. It was designed in the

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by the

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Thomas Cundy.Walford p.251 In 1908 a proposed extension of the

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would have seen a station called Abercorn Place built at the junction with Edgware Road, but this was rejected. When the line was extended in 1915, on a different route, the station was placed a little to the west on Elgin Avenue and renamed

. Residents of the street have included the artist

Charles Robert Leslie Charles Robert Leslie (19 October 1794 – 5 May 1859) was an English genre painter. Biography Leslie was born in London to American parents. When he was five years of age he returned with them to the United States, where they settled in Philad ...

, the writer

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and the actress

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