London, Langan's Brasserie, Stratton Street - geograph

Stratton Street is a street in the Mayfair district of the City of Westminster, London. It runs from

Berkeley Street Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London. It is one of the best known of the many squares in London, located in Mayfair in the City of Westminster. It was laid out in the mid 18th century by the architect William Kent ...

in the north to Piccadilly in the south.

History

Devonshire House on John Rocque's 1746 map of London

Stratton Street started to be built in 1693 on land occupied at some time by Berkeley House, the

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of the

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Bruton Abbey 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 ...

in Somerset. The title " Baron Berkeley of Stratton in the County of

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", in the Peerage of England, was created in 1658 for

John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton (1602 – 26 August 1678) 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 ...

(1602-1678), of Bruton, a Royalist during the

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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 Maurice de Berkeley, 2nd Baron Berkeley (April 1271 – 31 May 1326), ''The Magnanimous'', feudal baron of Berkeley, of Berkeley Castle in Gloucestershire, England, was a peer. He rebelled against King Edward II and the Despencers. His epith ...

(1271-1326) of

Berkeley Castle Berkeley Castle ( ; historically sometimes spelled as ''Berkley Castle'' or ''Barkley Castle'') is a castle in the town of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom. The castle's origins date back to the 11th century, and it has been desi ...

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, 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 Devonshire House in Piccadilly, was the London townhouse of the Dukes of Devonshire during the 18th and 19th centuries. Following a fire in 1733 it was rebuilt by William Cavendish, 3rd Duke of Devonshire, in the Palladian style, to designs ...

) is memorialised by

Berkeley Square Berkeley Square is a garden square in the West End of London. It is one of the best known of the many squares in London, located in Mayfair in the City of Westminster. It was laid out in the mid 18th century by the architect William Ke ...

, Berkeley Street, Stratton Street and

Bruton Street Bruton Street is a street in London's Mayfair district. It runs from Berkeley Square in the south-west to New Bond Street in the north-east, where it continues as Conduit Street. Notable residents have included Field Marshal John Campbell, 2n ...

. On some early maps it appears as "Stretton Street". The street was originally a cul-de-sac, running north from Piccadilly with

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."Stratton Street, W1." in Mayfair Place, which joins the two streets lower down, was laid out at the same time.

Notable inhabitants

Notable inhabitants have included the poet Thomas Campbell, General Thomas Graham, Lord Lynedoch,

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and Baroness Burdett-Coutts. Both

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and his great-nephew

Edward Cotton-Jodrell Sir Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton-Jodrell (29 June 1847 – 13 October 1917), known until 1890 as Edward Thomas Davenant Cotton, was a British Army officer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1900. Early li ...

resided at number 13. Ambrose, the dance band leader, lived in Stratton Street from 1927 to 1940. A blue plaque marks the spot.

Buildings

Numbers 6, 8, and 15 Stratton Street are all

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s with

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. Langan's Brasserie, formerly the Coq d'Or, has occupied the street since 1976.

References

External links

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