Beaumont Street, London

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The Orrery Epicerie on the corner of Beaumont Street and Marylebone High Street in the north. Orrery Epicerie, Beaumont Street, London 6 Sept 2014.jpg
The Orrery Epicerie on the corner of Beaumont Street and Marylebone High Street in the north.

Beaumont Street is a street in the City of Westminster, London, that runs from Marylebone High Street in the north to the junction of Westmoreland Street and Weymouth Street in the south. The street is crossed midway by Devonshire Street and Clarkes Mews adjoins Beaumont Street on its eastern side at the southern end.

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Inhabitants

The immediate vicinity of Beaumont Street. Beaumont Street, London map.jpg
The immediate vicinity of Beaumont Street.

The historian John Richard Green lived at No. 4 The Macdonald sisters lived at No. 17 in the middle of the nineteenth century. Walter Savage Landor lived at No. 38 in 1794 after being expelled from Oxford University for firing a pistol at the window of a Tory at the university. [1]

Buildings

Beaumont Street is the home of the King Edward VII Hospital [2] and for a time, the Marylebone Library. [3]

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References

  1. Williams, George G. Assisted by Marian and Geoffrey Williams. (1973) Guide to Literary London. London: Batsford, p. 280. ISBN   0713401419
  2. Contact. King Edward VII Hospital. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  3. Marylebone Library. City of Westminster. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
  4. w1wtrees (22 April 2013). "Marylebone's Beaumont Street now lined with 14 Amelanchier trees". The W1W Tree Planting Initiative for Marylebone. Retrieved 17 June 2019.

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