Duke Street is a street crossing the western half of

Oxford Street Oxford Street is a major road in the City of Westminster in the West End of London, running from Tottenham Court Road to Marble Arch via Oxford Circus. It is Europe's busiest shopping street, with around half a million daily visitors, and ...

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and connecting Wigmore Street and

Grosvenor Square Grosvenor Square is a large garden square in the Mayfair district of London. It is the centrepiece of the Mayfair property of the Duke of Westminster, and takes its name from the duke's surname "Grosvenor". It was developed for fashionable ...

. It is best known as the setting for the TV series '' The Duchess of Duke Street'' and has been the headquarters of the

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, a regiment of the British Army Reserve, since 1880. It is often confused with the relatively nearby central London location Duke Street, St James's which connects

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 Cou ...

and King Street, intersecting

Jermyn Street Jermyn Street is a one-way street in the St James's area of the City of Westminster in London, England. It is to the south of, parallel, and adjacent to Piccadilly. Jermyn Street is known as a street for gentlemen's-clothing retailers. Histor ...

, and is the location of the Cavendish Hotel, which was the real life inspiration for the fictional hotel in ''The Duchess of Duke Street''.

References

'Duke Street Area: Introduction', Survey of London: volume 40: The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair, Part 2 (The Buildings) (1980), pp. 86-87

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Streets in the City of Westminster {{London-road-stub

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