Marylebone Lane is one of the original streets of the

Marylebone Marylebone (usually , also ) is an area in London, England, and is located in the City of Westminster. It is in Central London and part of the West End. Oxford Street forms its southern boundary. An ancient parish and latterly a metropo ...

district of the

City of Westminster The City of Westminster is a London borough with City status in the United Kingdom, city status in Greater London, England. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It contains a large par ...

, London. It runs from Oxford Street in the south to Marylebone High Street in the north, its winding shape following the course of the

River Tyburn The River Tyburn was a stream ( bourn) in London, England. Its main successor sewers emulate its main courses, but it resembled the Colne in its county of Middlesex in that it had many distributaries (inland mouths). It ran from South Hampstead ...

that it once ran alongside and pre-dating the grid pattern of the other streets in the area. Today the lane is largely composed of small shops, cafes and restaurants with some small apartment blocks. There are some larger commercial buildings at the southern end near Oxford Street.

History

Marylebone Lane dates back to the original medieval village of

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 ...

, which stood at the south end of the lane near Oxford Street where Stratford Place is now.''Conservation Area Audit Harley Street''
City of Westminster, London, 2007
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, which once ran south alongside it before crossing Oxford Street, giving the lane a narrow and winding character that is still preserved today"Marylebone Lane and High Street"
in and making what Tony Aldous called a "rustic diagonal".Aldous, Tony. (1980) ''The Illustrated London News Book of London's Villages''. London: Secker & Warburg. p. 87. The Tyburn has since been culverted and enclosed. and now runs entirely underground. The area became part of London after it was urbanised using a grid plan in the early 1700s.

Location

Marylebone Lane runs from Oxford Street in the south, where it is now pedestrianised, to the beginning of Marylebone High Street in the north. The junction with Oxford Street was once split into two with a small group of buildings between the two entrances. In the south it is joined by Henrietta Place on its eastern side and crossed by

Wigmore Street Wigmore Street is a street in the City of Westminster, in the West End of London. The street runs for about 600 yards parallel and to the north of Oxford Street between Portman Square to the west and Cavendish Square to the east. It is named af ...

halfway up. Jason Court and Hinde Mews join it on the western side above Wigmore Street and Hinde Street joins it on the west and continues eastwards as Bentinck Street. Bentinck Mews runs off Marylebone Lane on its eastern side and the street is crossed by Bulstrode Street in the north. At its northern end, Bulstrode Place and Cross Keys Close join Marylebone Lane on its eastern side before the lane joins Marylebone High Street.

Character

Marylebone Lane is mostly made up of small shops, boutiques, cafes, restaurants and pubs, with some small apartment blocks. The haberdashers V.V. Rouleaux are at number 102 and The Ivy Cafe at the north end of the lane. Marylebone Lane has three public houses: * The Golden Eagle, late Victorian, on the corner with Bulstrode Street. * The Coach Makers (formerly The Conduit of Tybourne) on the corner with Bentinck Street. * The Angel in the Fields on the corner with upper Thayer Street. The southern part of the street includes some larger buildings, such as Debenhams department store, which borders the street, and the Radisson Blu Edwardian, Berkshire hotel. The entrance to the

Welbeck Street Car Park Welbeck Street car park was an architecturally notable car park built in the Brutalist style that was found in Marylebone, just north of Oxford Street, in the City of Westminster, London. The entrance was on the east side in Welbeck Street and it ...

is in the southern part of Marylebone Lane, adjacent to the London Steinway Hall. The Marylebone Court House once stood at the south end of the street and was erected by the Earl of Oxford as a

manorial court The manorial courts were the lowest courts of law in England during the feudal period. They had a civil jurisdiction limited both in subject matter and geography. They dealt with matters over which the lord of the manor had jurisdiction, primar ...

. It was demolished and rebuilt in 1825 but retained the same name. After no longer being used as a court it became Marylebone Town Hall for a time and was also used as a hall for public speaking. Wright, Thomas. (1837
''The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark, and parts adjacent. Vol. V.''
London: George Virtue. p. 345.

Gallery

File:Part of a map of the City of Westminster and the immediate e Wellcome V0012879.jpg, Marylebone Lane (upper left) on a 1764 map when it was on the fringes of London File:The Coach Makers pub Marylebone Lane & Bentinck Street.jpg, The Coachmakers pub File:Welbeck Street Car Park 01.jpg, The Welbeck Street Car Park File:Debenhams from Marylebone Lane 05.jpg, Debenhams department store on the corner with Henrietta Place File:The Ivy Cafe, Marylebone Lane 01.jpg, The Ivy Cafe, November 2016

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