Walton Street is a street within central London's Chelsea district, bordering

Knightsbridge Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End of London, West End. ...

. It runs south-west to north-east from Draycott Avenue to Walton Place, parallel to

Brompton Road Brompton Road is a street located in the southern part from Knightsbridge and in the eastern part from Brompton, London, Brompton in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and partly the City of Westminster in London. It starts from ...

to the north. It is known for its boutiques and restaurants. On 18 November 1975, the Walton's Restaurant bombing took place, when an

Irish Republican Army The Irish Republican Army (IRA) is a name used by various Resistance movement, resistance organisations in Ireland throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Organisations by this name have been dominantly Catholic and dedicated to anti-imperiali ...

(IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant without warning, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen.

Notable residents

Jahangir Hajiyev Jahangir Fevzi oglu Hajiyev ( ; born 26 October 1961) is an Azerbaijani former banker and convicted fraudster. He was the chairman of the International Bank of Azerbaijan from 2001 until he resigned in March 2015 citing health concerns. Under ...

and Zamira Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani banker and fraudster, and his wife *

Edwin La Dell Thomas Edwin La Dell (7 January 1914 – 27 June 1970) was a British printmaker, lithographer, illustrator and painter active during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Life and career Edwin La Dell was the son of Thomas La Dell, a Sheffield-bo ...

(1914–1970), artist *

Berthold Wolpe Berthold Ludwig Wolpe (29 October 1905 – 5 July 1989) was a German calligrapher, typographer, type designer, book designer and illustrator. He was born into a Jewish family at Offenbach near Frankfurt, emigrated to England soon after t ...

(1905–1989), printer, at No. 102

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Walton Street, London Walton Street, London Knightsbridge Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea