Crawford Street

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Crawford Street
Crawford Street
Maintained by Westminster City Council
Location City of Westminster, United Kingdom
Postal code W1
Nearest Tube station Underground no-text.svg Baker Street
Coordinates 51°31′10.292″N0°09′39.695″W / 51.51952556°N 0.16102639°W / 51.51952556; -0.16102639
Junction of Crawford Street and Seymour Place. Junction of Seymour Place and Crawford Street - geograph.org.uk - 1046223.jpg
Junction of Crawford Street and Seymour Place.
The Beehive pub at 126 Crawford Street. The Beehive, 126 Crawford Street, W1 - geograph.org.uk - 1522416.jpg
The Beehive pub at 126 Crawford Street.

Crawford Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster. The street contains two grade II listed public houses.

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Location

The street runs from the junction of Homer Row and Crawford Place in the west to the junction of Baker Street and Paddington Street in the east. From west to east, the street is crossed by Seymour Place, Wyndham Place, Upper Montagu Street, Durweston Street/Montagu Mews North, Gloucester Place, Montagu Mansions and Durweston Mews/Montagu Row.

History

The street was laid out from 1795. It is named after Tarrant Crawford, a property in Dorset owned by the Portman family who owned much of the property in the area. [1]

Listed buildings

The Duke of Wellington public house at No. 94a Crawford Street is a grade II listed building with Historic England, [2] as is The Beehive at No. 126. [3] There are a number of other listed buildings in the street.

References

  1. Hibbert, Christopher; Ben Weinreb; John Keay; Julia Keay (2010). The London Encyclopaedia. London: Pan Macmillan. p. 217. ISBN   978-0-230-73878-2.
  2. Historic England. "DUKE OF WELLINGTON PUBLIC HOUSE (1221008)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 September 2015.
  3. Historic England. "THE BEEHIVE PUBLIC HOUSE (1221026)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 20 September 2015.

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