Connaught Street is a street in

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. Located in the

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, it is part of the

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area of

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north of Hyde Park. It runs west to east from

Hyde Park Square Hyde Park Square is a residential, tree-planted, garden square one block north of Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park fronted by classical buildings, many of which are listed building, listed and marks a crossover of Lancaster Gate and Connaught Village ...

to the

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. It continues eastwards becoming Upper Berkeley Street in

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. The street contains a mixture of commercial and residential properties, forming part of Connaught Village.

Connaught Square Connaught Square in London, England, was the first garden square, square of terraced house, city houses to be built in Bayswater. It is named after a royal, the Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Earl of Connaught who ...

and

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are located on its southern side. The Duke of Kendal public house sits at the junction between Connaught Street and Kendal Street. It is located close to the historic

Tyburn Tyburn was a Manorialism, manor (estate) in London, Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone. Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne ...

, a site of public executions until the eighteenth century on the outskirts of London. The growing population of the capital led

Samuel Pepys Cockerell Samuel Pepys Cockerell (15 February 1753 – 12 July 1827) was an English architect. He was a son of John Cockerell, of Bishop's Hull, Somerset, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet, for whom he designed the house he is ...

to lay out an ambitious scheme for redeveloping the area as up-market residential district. Formally part of the

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's estate, the new plans were amended by George Gutch after Cockerell's death. Work began on Connaught Street and Square in the 1820s, and the first buildings were completed by 1828. It was originally known as Upper Berkeley Street West. The name was later changed in 1879 to match nearby Connaught Square, which takes its name from the subsidiary Earl of Connaught title of the

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, the nephew of

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. Much of the street is now

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featuring the original

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Bibliography

* Bebbington, Gillian. ''London Street Names''. Batsford, 1972. * Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. ''London 3: North West''. Yale University Press, 2002. * Hibbert, Christopher Weinreb, Ben, Keay, John & Keay, Julia. ''The London Encyclopaedia''. Pan Macmillan, 2011. Streets in the City of Westminster Paddington Tyburnia {{London-road-stub

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