Bolton Street is a street in the

City of Westminster The City of Westminster is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and London boroughs, borough in Inner London. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It occupies a large area of cent ...

, London. The street runs from Curzon Street in the north to

Piccadilly Piccadilly () is a road in the City of Westminster, London, to the south of Mayfair, between Hyde Park Corner in the west and Piccadilly Circus in the east. It is part of the A4 road that connects central London to Hammersmith, Earl's Court, ...

in the south.

History

Bolton Street, which was named after the Duke of Bolton, and which until 1708 was the westernmost street of London,"Bolton Street, W1." in was built in about 1696.

Notable inhabitants

Former residents of Bolton Street include: * Madame D'Arblay (pseudonym Fanny Burney), playwright, at No. 11. Her former residence is marked by a brown plaque erected by the Society of Arts; *Richard Clement (1754 - 1829), sugar plantation owner of Barbados, at No. 13 * Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt., a British geopolitical expert to the British Colonial Office, at No. 23; * Henry James, novelist, at No. 3.; * John Pitt Dening, soldier and polo player, who shot himself at the Bolton House Hotel in the street in 1929.

Buildings

The western side of the street has been almost completely replaced by modern buildings but the eastern side still contains many Georgian buildings. Among the listed buildings in the street are numbers 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18, 19 and 20. The auction house Noonans Mayfair has its office at number 16.

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