Stratton Street is a street in the Mayfair district of the City of Westminster, London. It runs from Berkeley Street in the north to Piccadilly in the south.
Stratton Street is a street in the Mayfair district of the City of Westminster, London. It runs from Berkeley Street in the north to Piccadilly in the south.
Stratton Street started to be built in 1693 on land occupied at some time by Berkeley House, the townhouse of the Berkeley family of Bruton Abbey in Somerset. The title "Baron Berkeley of Stratton in the County of Cornwall", in the Peerage of England, was created in 1658 for John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602-1678), of Bruton, a Royalist during the Civil War who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Stratton, fought in 1643 at Stratton in Cornwall. He was descended from Sir Maurice de Berkeley, a younger son of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (1271-1326) of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, the senior line of the Berkeley family. Berkeley House and its extensive grounds (later purchased by the Duke of Devonshire who rebuilt it as Devonshire House) is memorialised by Berkeley Square, Berkeley Street, Stratton Street and Bruton Street.
On some early maps it appears as "Stretton Street". The street was originally a cul-de-sac, running north from Piccadilly with Devonshire House on its eastern side, but in 1924 Devonshire House was demolished and Stratton Street was extended from its northern end eastwards to Berkeley Street, giving it the present right-angled shape. [1] Mayfair Place, which joins the two streets lower down, was laid out at the same time. [2]
Notable inhabitants have included the poet Thomas Campbell, General Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch, William Burn and Baroness Burdett-Coutts. [1] Both Thomas Jodrell Phillips Jodrell and his great-nephew Edward Cotton-Jodrell resided at number 13. [3] [4] Ambrose, the dance band leader, lived in Stratton Street from 1927 to 1940. A blue plaque marks the spot.
Numbers 6, [5] 8, [6] and 15 [7] Stratton Street are all listed buildings with Historic England. Langan's Brasserie, formerly the Coq d'Or, has occupied the street since 1976.
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John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton was an English royalist soldier, politician and diplomat, of the Bruton branch of the Berkeley family. From 1648 he was closely associated with James, Duke of York, and rose to prominence, fortune, and fame. He and Sir George Carteret were the founders of the Province of New Jersey, a British colony in North America that would eventually become the U.S. state of New Jersey.
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Baron Berkeley of Stratton, in the County of Cornwall, was a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1658 for John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton, a Royalist during the Civil War who had distinguished himself at the Battle of Stratton, fought in 1643 at Stratton in Cornwall. He was a member of the Berkeley family of Bruton in Somerset, descended from Sir Maurice de Berkeley, a younger son of Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (1271–1326) of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, the senior line of the Berkeley family. His brother was Charles Berkeley, 2nd Viscount Fitzhardinge and his nephew was Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth. The 1st Baron's second son, the 3rd Baron, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy who died without surviving issue and was succeeded by his younger brother, the 4th Baron, who served as First Lord of Trade between 1714 and 1715.
Bruton Abbey in Bruton, Somerset was founded as a house of Augustinian canons in about 1127, and became an abbey in 1511, shortly before its dissolution in 1539. It was endowed with manors, churches and other properties in the area and also in Normandy in France.
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