Marylebone (usually , also , ) is a district in the West End of London, in the

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. Oxford Street, Europe's busiest shopping street, forms its southern boundary. An

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and latterly a

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, it merged with the boroughs of Westminster and Paddington to form the new

in 1965. Marylebone station lies two miles north-west of

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History

Marylebone was originally an

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formed to serve the manors (landholdings) of Lileston (in the west, which gives its name to modern Lisson Grove) and Tyburn in the east. The parish is likely to have been in place since at least the twelfth century and will have used the boundaries of the pre-existing manors. The boundaries of the parish were consistent from the late twelfth century to the creation of the Metropolitan Borough which succeeded it.

Etymology

The parish took its name from its church, dedicated to St Mary; the original church was built on the bank of a small stream or "

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", called the Tybourne or Tyburn. This stream rose further north in (

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), eventually running along what became Marylebone Lane, which preserves its curve within the grid pattern. The original name of the parish was simply Marybourne, the stream of St Mary; the French "le" appeared in the 17th century, under the influence of names like Mary-le-Bow. The suggestion that the name derives from ''Marie la Bonne'', or "Mary the Good", is not substantiated.

Manors of Tyburn and Lileston

Both manors were mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. Domesday recorded eight households in each manor, implying a combined population of less than a hundred. At Domesday the Manor of Lilestone was valued at 60

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s and owned by a woman called Ediva. Tyburn was a possession of the Nunnery of Barking Abbey and valued at 52 shillings. The ownership of both manors was the same as it had been before the Conquest. Lilestone became the property of the

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until their suppression in 1312. It then passed to the

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, whose name is the origin of the place name St John's Wood. Early in the 13th century Tyburn was held by Robert de Vere, 3rd Earl of Oxford. At the end of the 15th century Thomas Hobson bought up the greater part of the manor; in 1544 his son Thomas exchanged it with Henry VIII, who enclosed the northern part of the manor as a deer park, the distant origin of Regent's Park. Lilestone Manor also passed into the hands of the Crown at this time. Tyburn manor remained with the Crown until the southern part was sold in 1611 by James I, who retained the deer park, to Edward Forest, who had held it as a fixed rental under Elizabeth I. Forest's manor of Marylebone then passed by marriage to the Austen family. The deer park, Marylebone Park Fields, was let out in small holdings for hay and dairy produce.B. Weinreb and C. Hibbert, eds (1995), ''The London Encyclopedia'', Macmillan LONDON, MARYLEBONE by BARTLETT, F

Shifting parish church

The Ancient Parish's church, St Marylebone Parish Church, has been rebuilt several times at various locations within the parish. The earliest known church dedicated to

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was established by Barking Abbey, which held Manor of Tyburn, at an unknown date, but probably sometime in the 12th century. This church was located on the north side of Oxford Street, probably near the junction with Marylebone Lane. This site was subject to regular robbery and in 1400 a new church was built, around 900 metres further north. and given the name ''St Mary by the Bourne''. This church was rebuilt in 1740 with a new building erected a little further north in 1817.

Urbanisation

In 1710,

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, purchased the manor for £17,500, and his daughter and heir,

Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles Henrietta Harley, Countess of Oxford and Countess Mortimer (''née'' Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles; 11 February 1694 – 9 December 1755) was an English noblewoman, the only child and heiress of John Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle and his wife, t ...

, by her marriage to Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, passed it into the family of the Earl of Oxford, one of whose titles was Lord Harley of Wigmore. She and the earl, realising the need for fashionable housing north of the Oxford Road (now Oxford St), commissioned the surveyor and builder John Prince to draw a master plan that set Cavendish Square in a rational grid system of streets. The Harley heiress Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley married William, 2nd Duke of Portland, and took the property, including Marylebone High Street, into the Bentinck family. Such place names in the neighbourhood as Cavendish Square and

Portland Place Portland Place is a street in the Marylebone district of central London. Named after the Third Duke of Portland, the unusually wide street is home to BBC Broadcasting House, the Chinese and Polish embassies, the Royal Institute of British A ...

reflect the Dukes of Portland landholdings and Georgian-era developments there. In 1879 the fifth Duke died without issue and the estate passed through the female line to his sister, Lucy Joan Bentinck, widow of the 6th Baron Howard de Walden. Most of the Manor of Lileston was acquired by Sir William Portman in 1554, and much of this was developed by his descendants as the Portman Estate in the late 1700s. Both estates have aristocratic antecedents and are still run by members of the aforementioned families. The

Howard de Walden Estate The Howard de Walden Estate is a property estate in Marylebone, London, owned by the Howard de Walden family. As of 2020 the estate was reported to be worth £4.7 billion. History The Estate's development dates from 1715 when speculative plan ...

owns, leases and manages the majority of the of real estate in Marylebone which comprises the area from Marylebone High Street in the west to Robert Adam's

in the east and from Wigmore Street in the south to

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in the north.

Social history

In the 18th century the area was known for the raffish entertainments in Marylebone Gardens, the scene of bear-baiting and prize fights by members of both sexes, and for the duelling grounds in Marylebone Fields. The Marylebone Cricket Club, for many years the governing body of world cricket, was formed in 1787 and initially based at Dorset Fields before moving a short distance to its current home at

Lord's Cricket Ground Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London. Named after its founder, Thomas Lord, it is owned by Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and is the home of Middlesex County Cricket Club, the England and ...

in 1814. Lord's is also home to

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and the England and Wales Cricket Board, with the England national team as one of a number of home venues. The ground is nicknamed ''the Home of Cricket''.

Coat of Arms

The Borough of St Marylebone was granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms in 1901. The crest includes the Virgin Mary wearing a silver robe with a light blue mantle, holding the infant Jesus, dressed in gold. The wavy light blue bars represent the

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while the gold roses and lilies are taken from the arms of Barking Abbey, which held the Manor of Tyburn and first established the parish church. The version used by the Abbey was placed against a red border, and some versions of Marylebone's arms have made extensive use of red. The roses and lilies ultimately derive from the legend that when Mary's tomb was opened it contained those flowers. The motto "Fiat secundum Verbum Tuum" is Latin for "let it be according to thy word", a phrase used in the Gospel of Luke.

Latter administrative history

The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a

of the County of London between 1899 and 1965, after which, with the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the

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it was merged into the

. The Metropolitan Borough inherited the boundaries of the Ancient Parish which had been fixed since at least the 12th century. Marylebone Town Hall was completed in 1920.

20th century

Marylebone was the scene of the Balcombe Street siege in 1975, when Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists held two people hostage for almost a week.

Streets

Marylebone is characterised by major streets on a grid pattern such as Gloucester Place,

Baker Street Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London. It is named after builder William Baker, who laid out the street in the 18th century. The street is most famous for its connection to the fictional detec ...

, Marylebone High Street, Wimpole Street,

Harley Street Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, Central London, which has, since the 19th century housed a large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery. It was named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.< ...

and

, with smaller mews between the major streets. Mansfield Street is a short continuation of Chandos Street built by the Adam brothers in 1770, on a plot of ground which had been underwater. Most of its houses are fine buildings with exquisite interiors, which if put on the market now would have an expected price in excess of £10 million. At Number 13 lived religious architect John Loughborough Pearson who died in 1897, and designer of Castle Drogo and New Delhi Sir Edwin Lutyens, who died in 1944. Immediately across the road at 61 New Cavendish Street lived Natural History Museum creator

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. Queen Anne Street is an elegant cross-street which unites the northern end of Chandos Street with Welbeck Street. The painter

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moved to 47 Queen Anne Street in 1812 from 64 Harley Street, now divided into numbers 22 and 23, and owned the house until his death in 1851. It was known as "Turner's Den", becoming damp, dilapidated, dusty, dirty, with dozens of Turner's works of art now in the National Gallery scattered throughout the house, walls covered in tack holes and a drawing room inhabited by cats with no tails. During the same period a few hundred yards to the east,

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in Chandos Street was used as the

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Embassy and residence of the fabulously extravagant Ambassador Prince Paul Anton III Esterhazy, seeing entertainment on a most lavish scale. The building is one of the finest surviving Adam houses in London, and now lets rooms. Wimpole Street runs from Henrietta Place north to Devonshire Street, becoming Upper Wimpole en route – the latter where

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opened his ophthalmic practice at number 2 in 1891; Conann-Doyle's fictional detective

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also had his residence in Marylebone at

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. Nearby at a six-floor Grade II 18th-century house at 57 Wimpole Street is where Paul McCartney resided from 1964 to 1966, staying on the top floor of girlfriend Jane Asher's family home in a room overlooking Browning Mews in the back, and with John Lennon writing " I Want to Hold Your Hand" on a piano in the basement. A further Beatles connection is that they, and many other musicians have recorded at the

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. At her father's house at number 50 Wimpole Street lived for some time between 1840 and 1845, Elizabeth Barrett, then known as the author of a volume of poems, and who afterwards escaped and was better known as

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. Today, at the bottom end of Wimpole at Wigmore can be found a sandwich shop named Barrett's. Marylebone High Street Londres

Bentinck Street leaves Welbeck Street and touches the middle of winding Marylebone Lane. Charles Dickens lived at number 18 with his indebted father (on whom the character Wilkins Micawber was based) while working as a court reporter in the 1830s, and Edward Gibbon wrote much of ''The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'' while living at number 7 from the early 1770s.

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wrote the will that led to the foundation of the Smithsonian Institution while living at number 9 in 1826, while number 10 was briefly graced by Chopin in 1848, who found his apartment too expensive and moved to Mayfair. More recently, Cambridge spies

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and Guy Burgess lived at 5 Bentinck Street during the Second World War. In 1960s two-some John Dunbar and TV repairman " Magic Alex" lived on the street, where the former introduced the latter to John Lennon in 1967. Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, who was a qualified nurse, founded a nursing home in Bentinck Street, and served as its matron. Manchester Square, west of Bentinck Street, has a central private garden with handsome plane trees, laid out in 1776. The mansion on the north side of the square, now the home of the Wallace Collection, once housed the Spanish ambassador, whose chapel was in Spanish Place. From the north-west corner is Manchester Street, final home of Georgian-era prophet Joanna Southcott, who died there in 1814. Marylebone has some

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heritage, with John Lennon's flat at 34 Montagu Square, and the original Apple Corps headquarters at 95 Wigmore Street. Bulstrode Street, small and charming, is named after a Portman family estate in Buckinghamshire, itself named after a local family there made-good in Tudor days. Tucked away, with a few terraced houses, Bulstrode Street has been the home of minor health care professionals for hundreds of years. The RADA student and aspiring actress

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, aged twenty in 1933, gave birth at the Rahere Nursing Home, then at number 8, to her first child. The north end of Welbeck Street joins New Cavendish Street, the name of which changed from Upper Marylebone Street after World War I. Number 13 in New Cavendish Street, at its junction with Welbeck Street and on the corner of Marylebone Street, was the birthplace in 1882 of the orchestral conductor Leopold Stokowski, the son of a Polish cabinet maker. He sang as a boy in the choir of St Marylebone Church. At the northern end of Marylebone High Street towards the Marylebone Road there is an area with a colourful history, which includes the former Marylebone Gardens, whose entertainments including bare-knuckle fighting, a cemetery, a workhouse, and the areas frequented by Charles Wesley, all shut down by the close of the 18th century, where today there are mansion blocks and upper-end retail. At No. 1 Dorset Street resided mid-Victorian scientist

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, inventor of the analytical engine. Babbage complained that two adjacent hackney-coach stands in Paddington Street ruined the neighbourhood, leading to the establishment of coffee and beer shops, and furthermore, the character of the new population could be inferred from the taste they exhibited for the noisiest and most discordant music. An acclaimed international venue for chamber music, the Wigmore Hall, opened at 36 Wigmore Street in 1901. It hosts over 500 concerts each year. The Marylebone Low Emission Neighbourhood was established in 2016 to improve the air quality of the area. Westminster City Council in partnership with local residents, businesses and stakeholders completed a green grid of 800 new trees on Marylebone's streets in 2019.

Representation

The area was represented by the St Marylebone UK Parliament constituency between 1918 and 1983. The area is currently divided between the

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and Westminster North parliamentary constituencies. These are represented by

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and Karen Buck respectively.

Geography

The Parish and Borough was bounded by two Roman Roads, Oxford Street to the south and Watling Street ( Edgware Road) to the west, and positioned on both side of the former

which flowed from north to south. To the north (Boundary Road in St John's Wood) and east (running through Regent's Park and along Cleveland Street), the area's boundaries have been inherited as part of the north and eastern boundary of the modern

. This area includes localities such as St John's Wood, Lisson Grove and East Marylebone. East Marylebone has since the 1970s been viewed as a part of Fitzrovia. Local places of interest include Marylebone Village, most of Regent's Park, Marylebone Station,

the home of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) and the original site of the MCC at Dorset Square. Areas and features of Marylebone include: *

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(designed by John Nash) *

(including the fictitious

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) *

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( BBC headquarters) *

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* Dorset Square * Duke Street, Marylebone *

*Hinde Street Methodist Chapel * Holy Trinity Church, Marylebone (designed by Sir John Soane) * Hyde Park *

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, London (built in the 1860s) * London Business School, founded in 1964 *

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* Manchester Square (Georgian square) * Marble Arch * Marylebone High Street * Montagu Square (Regency square) * Regent's Park (which houses

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) *

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* Royal Institute of British Architects * Selfridges Department Store *

St. James's, Spanish Place St James' Church is a large English Gothic Catholic church in George Street, Marylebone, London. Although currently situated in George Street, the church maintains its connection with Spanish Place, the road opposite the current church, because ...

* St Peter, Vere Street (designed in 1722 by James Gibbs) * University of Westminster * Wallace Collection *

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at 19 Thayer Street * Wigmore Hall * Wigmore Street *

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Landmarks

Former landmarks

* Egton House, studio of BBC Radio 1, demolished * Queen's Hall, classical music concert venue destroyed by fire in World War II * Marylebone Gardens a former pleasure ground and venue for concerts, closed in 1778 * St. George's Hall, a theatre built in 1867, demolished 1966. *'' Yorkshire Stingo'', a public house on

. * St Marylebone Grammar School on the corner of Lisson Grove and Marylebone Road, now offices. *

Theatre Royal, Marylebone The Theatre Royal, Marylebone (also known as the Marylebone Theatre, among other names) was a Victorian era theatre in the Marylebone area of London. Built in 1831, at various other times it was a music hall, a cinema and warehouse until it w ...

, a former music hall opened in 1832 at 71 Church Street, demolished in 1959. *

Freshwater Place Freshwater Place is a residential skyscraper in the Southbank district of Melbourne, Australia. The building has a total of 536 apartment units. Сonstruction was completed in 2005. The residential tower has three sections: podium, mid rise ...

off Homer Street, pioneering social housing by

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, demolished in 1961.

Notable residents

* Lord Byron, English romantic poet, born in Marylebone and baptised St Marylebone Parish Church. * Charles Dickens, English writer, lived in 1 Devonshire Terrace, a building that was demolished in the 1950s. * Paul McCartney, English musician, wrote “ Yesterday” whilst living at 57 Wimpole Street.

Transport

Tube stations

Bond Street Bond Street in the West End of London links Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. Since the 18th century the street has housed many prestigious and upmarket fashion retailers. The southern section is Old Bond Street and the l ...

* Edgware Road (Bakerloo line) * Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines) * Great Portland Street * Marble Arch * Marylebone *

Oxford Circus Oxford Circus is a road junction connecting Oxford Street and Regent Street in the West End of London. It is also the entrance to Oxford Circus tube station. The junction opened in 1819 as part of the Regent Street development under John Nash, ...

* Regent's Park

Railway stations

* Marylebone

Bus

The area is served by routes 2, 13, 18, 27, 30, 74, 113, 139,

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205 Year 205 ( CCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelius and Geta (or, less frequently, year 958 ''Ab urbe condita'' ...

274 Year 274 ( CCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Aurelianus and Capitolinus (or, less frequently, year 1027 ''Ab ...

, 453 and night routes N18 and N74.

Education

* London Business School (one of the top-ranked elite business schools in the world)
Halcyon London International School
(International school on Seymour Place) * St Marylebone School (comprehensive specialist school in Performing Arts, Maths & Computing for girls founded in 1791) * Sylvia Young Theatre School (fee paying performing arts school)
St Vincent's RC Primary School
(Catholic Voluntary Aided Mixed School) *

Francis Holland School Francis Holland School is the name of two separate private day schools for girls in central London, England, governed by the Francis Holland ( Church of England) Schools Trust. The schools are located at Clarence Gate (near Regent's Park NW1 ...

(independent day school for girls)
Portland Place School
(independent secondary school) *The

on Marylebone Road *The University of Westminster on Marylebone Road and upper

Regent Street Regent Street is a major shopping street in the West End of London. It is named after George, the Prince Regent (later George IV) and was laid out under the direction of the architect John Nash and James Burton. It runs from Waterloo Place ...

* Regent's College, whose campus is within the grounds of Regent's Park, which houses: European Business School London; British American College London; Regent's Business School; School of Psychotherapy and Counselling;

Webster Graduate School The Webster Graduate School was a campus of Webster University in London, England, whose main campus is in St Louis, Missouri, USA. Webster Graduate School was based in the Regent's University London campus at Regent's Park in central London. Th ...

; Internexus, a provider of English language courses. * L'Ecole Internationale Franco-Anglaise (international school providing English-French bilingual education)
Queen’s College Preparatory School
(independent day school for girls)
Southbank International School
on Portland Place

References

External links

*
Marylebone VillageHampstead and Marylebone
by G. E. Mitton at Project Gutenberg *
The Marylebone Association
The amenities society for Marylebone representing its residents, businesses and people who live and/or work in Marylebone. The Association's area is bounded by Oxford Street (South), Edgware Road (West), Marylebone Road (North) and Great Portland Street (East).
The St Marylebone Society
An amenities society that represents residents North of the Marylebone Road
The Marylebone Forum
is the designated neighbourhood planning forum for the area of Marylebone. {{Authority control Areas of London Districts of the City of Westminster Places formerly in Middlesex