Harley Street

Street in Marylebone, London Harley Street sign Harley Street from junction with Wigmore Street Harley Street 2011 Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, Central London, named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer and part of the Howard de Walden Estate. The nearest London Underground stations are Regent's Park, Great Portland Street and Oxford Circus. It is known for having a high concentration of doctors and medical practitioners. History Letter to an early Harley Street resident, 1771 Harley Street was already known as a wealthy locale by the time of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility (1813), in which she has the Dashwood sisters, Lucy Steele, Mrs Jennings, Edward Ferrars, and others spend some of their free time there while in London. It remained so later that century – in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South (1854–55), Margaret Hale lived with her aunt Mrs. Shaw and cousin Edith in a house on Harley Street for nine years, before she moved with her parents to the fictional northern town of Milton, whilst in Henry James' The Turn of the Screw (1898), the wealthy uncle at the beginning of the work apparently has a house on Harley Street. Notable occupant