Marylebone Property, History & Transport
Historically, the parish of St Marylebone extended from Oxford Street to Regent’s Park and St John’s Wood, but today those areas tend to be regarded as separate and the Marylebone area is bounded by Oxford Street, Great Portland Street, Marylebone Road and Edgware Road.
Two great landowners built Marylebone – the Portman and Howard de Walden estates.
Sir William Portman, Lord Chief Justice, a acheté la moitié ouest de St Marylebone, le manoir de Lileston, en 1553 et son descendant Henri Portman a commencé à la développer dans le 18ème siècle. Le Domaine Portman couvre désormais plus de la zone ouest de Baker Street.
The area to the east of Baker Street, the old manor of Tyburn, was originally developed by the Earl and Countess of Oxford in the 1720s. Their daughter married the 2nd Duck of Portland, and the Dukes held the estate until 1879 when the reclusive 5th Duke died unmarried. The estate passed to his sister, Lucy, Baroness Howard de Walden, and the Howard de Walden estate is the the major landowner today. The title of Earl of Portman, however, passed through a different line and the current holder is Tim Bentinck, the actor who plays David Archer in the famous radio series and voiced the ‘mind the gap’ messages on the Piccadilly Line.
Les deux domaines s'est efforcé de créer un paysage urbain élégant et varié de places et avenues de la manière géorgienne. Caractéristiques architecturales comprennent Portland Place, aménagé par les frères Adam et en conservant quelques-unes des maisons originales, et Portman Square, où Home House est l'un des mieux conservés de maisons de ville géorgienne à Londres.
Bien que la région est encore predominently géorgienne de caractère, certaines zones ont été reconstruites en tant manoir pavillons, aujourd'hui si Marylebone vous propose un hébergement pour convenir à la plupart des budgets.
Both the great estates have recently invested substantially in improving the area. The Howard de Walden has very successfully promoted Marylebone Village as a destination for shopping, dining and the arts, and the Portman is doing the same with Portman Village, just north of Marble Arch.
