Park Street, Mayfair

Park Street is a street in Mayfair, London, England. It is the longest street on the Grosvenor Estate.[1]

Park Street in 2005

It is a one-way street running south to north from a t-junction with South Street to a crossroads with Oxford Street, where it continues north as Portman Street.

It was formerly known as Hyde Park Street.[2] House building on the street began in the late 1720s, and was completed in the late 1770s, and the only surviving original properties are nos 70 to 78.[1]

Notable residents

• 58 Sir Rufane Donkin, from 1827[3]
• 64 Richard Teage, from 1729[3]
  • Stanley Cousins, 1926-28[3]
  • John Dewar, 2nd Baron Forteviot, 1928-36[3]
• 91 Kenneth Mackay, 2nd Earl of Inchcape, 1936–39[4]
• 93 Sir Louis Baron, 1st Baronet, 1931–34[4]
• 101 Robin Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 8th Marquess of Londonderry, 1934–41[4]
• 103 Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart, diplomat, 1925–31[4]
• 103A Alan Burns, 4th Baron Inverclyde, 1930–33[4]
• 108 Albertha Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, ex-wife of George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough, 1903–32[3]
• 110 Thomas Cundy III and his son, Thomas Elger Cundy, 1889–92[3]
• 114 Dowager Lady Vernon, widow of 6th Baron Vernon, 1892–98[3]

References

1. "Park Street and Culross Street: Introduction - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
2. Geraldine Edith Mitton (1903). Mayfair, Belgravia, and Bayswater. Library of Alexandria. p. 12. ISBN 978-1-4655-3203-9. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
3. "Park Street and Culross Street: Park Street, East Side - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
4. "Park Street and Culross Street: Park Street, West Side - British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 16 July 2018.