Postal area W1K

Postcode

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1295

The streets of W1K:
Achilles Way Achilles Way is named for the nearby Wellington as Achilles statue in Hyde Park.
Adams Row On the Grosvenor estate, Adams Row extends from South Audley Street to Carlos Place.
Aldford Street Aldford Street is named after Aldford, a property on the Grosvenor family’s Cheshire estates.
Audley Square Audley Square is named after Hugh Audley.
Avery Row Avery Row was probably named after Henry Avery, an 18th century bricklayer who built this street over the Tyburn Brook.
Balderton Flats Balderton Flats is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Balderton Street Balderton Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Balfour Mews Balfour Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Balfour Place Balfour Place is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Binney Street Binney Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Brook Street Brook Street was named after the Tyburn Brook that formerly ran nearby,
Brooks Mews Brooks Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Brown Hart Gardens Brown Hart Gardens is a road in the W1K postcode area
Culross Street Culross Street is a road in the W1K postcode area
Curzon Square Curzon Square is a road in the W1K postcode area
Davies Mews Davies Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Davies Street Davies Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Davis Street Davis Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Deanery Street Deanery Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Dorchester Ride Dorchester Ride is a road in the W1K postcode area
Duke Street Duke Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Dunraven Street Dunraven Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Gilbert Street Gilbert Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Green Street Green Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Grosvenor Hill Grosvenor Hill is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Grosvenor Square Grosvenor Square is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Grosvenor Square Grosvenor Square was developed by Sir Richard Grosvenor from 1721 onwards.
Grosvenor Street Grosvenor Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Haunch Of Venison Yard Haunch Of Venison Yard is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Jones Street Jones Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Lancashire Court Lancashire Court is one of the streets of London in the W1Spostal area.
Lees Place Lees Place is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Lovers’ Walk Lovers’ Walk is a road in the W1K postcode area
Lumley Street Lumley Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Lumley Street Lumley Street is a road in the W1C postcode area
Mayfair Mews A street within the W1S postcode
Mews Yard Mews Yard is a road in the WC2H postcode area
Mount Row Mount Row was formed from two stable yards.
Mount Street Mount Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Mount Street Mount Street is a road in the W1 postcode area
North Audley Street North Audley Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
North Row North Row is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Oxford Street Oxford Street is Europe’s busiest shopping street, with around half a million daily visitors, and as of 2012 had approximately 300 shops.
Park Lane Park Lane is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Park Lane Park Lane is a road in the W1J postcode area
Park Street Park Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Pitt’s Head Mews Pitt’s Head Mews is a road in the W1J postcode area
Portman Street Portman Street is a road in the W1C postcode area
Providence Court This is a street in the W1K postcode area
Red Place Red Place is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Reeves Mews Reeves Mews is a road in the W1K postcode area
Rex Place Rex Place is a road in the W1K postcode area
Sandgate Trading Estate A street within the W1K postcode
Sedley Place Sedley Place is a road in the W1K postcode area
Shepherds Place Shepherds Place is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
South Audley Street South Audley Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
South Molton Lane South Molton Lane is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
South Molton Street South Molton Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
South Street South Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
St. Anselm’s Place St. Anselm’s Place is a road in the W1K postcode area
Stanhope Gate Stanhope Gate is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
T A Centre T A Centre is a location in London.
Three Kings’ Yard This is a street in the W1K postcode area
Tilney Street Tilney Street is a road in the W1K postcode area
Upper Brook Street Upper Brook Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Upper Grosvenor Street Upper Grosvenor Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Weighhouse Street Weighhouse Street is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.
Woods Mews Woods Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1Kpostal area.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Pauline jones Bessborough Place, SW1V Added: 16 Oct 2017 19:04 GMT	Bessborough Place, SW1V I grew up in bessborough place at the back of our house and Grosvenor road and bessborough gardens was a fantastic playground called trinity mews it had a paddling pool sandpit football area and various things to climb on, such as a train , slide also as Wendy house. There were plants surrounding this wonderful play area, two playground attendants ,also a shelter for when it rained. The children were constantly told off by the playground keepers for touching the plants or kicking the ball out of the permitted area, there was hopscotch as well, all these play items were brick apart from the slide. Pollock was the centre of my universe and I felt sorry and still do for anyone not being born there. To this day I miss it and constantly look for images of the streets around there, my sister and me often go back to take a clumped of our beloved London. The stucco houses were a feature and the backs of the houses enabled parents to see thier children playing. Reply
Justin Russ Binney Street, W1K Added: 15 Feb 2021 20:25 GMT	Binney Street, W1K Binney St was previously named Thomas Street before the 1950’s. Before the 1840’s (approx.) it was named Bird St both above and below Oxford St. Reply
Jessie Doring Tisbury Court, W1D Added: 22 Feb 2021 04:33 GMT	Tisbury Court Jazz Bar Jazz Bar opened in Tisbury Court by 2 Australians. Situated in underground basement. Can not remember how long it opened for. Reply
www.violettrefusis.com Wilton Crescent, SW1X Added: 17 Feb 2021 15:05 GMT	Birth place Violet Trefusis, writer, cosmopolitan intellectual and patron of the Arts was born at 2 Wilton Crescent SW1X. Source: www.violettrefusis.com Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

GRaleigh Glengall Road, NW6 Added: 23 Feb 2021 09:34 GMT	Found a bug Hi all! Thank you for your excellent site. I found an overlay bug on the junction of Glengall Road, NW6 and Hazelmere Road, NW6 on the 1950 map only. It appears when one zooms in at this junction and only on the zoom. Cheers, Geoff Raleigh Source: Glengall Road, NW6 Reply
Jessie Doring Tisbury Court, W1D Added: 22 Feb 2021 04:33 GMT	Tisbury Court Jazz Bar Jazz Bar opened in Tisbury Court by 2 Australians. Situated in underground basement. Can not remember how long it opened for. Reply
Christine Clark Knoyle Street, SE14 Added: 20 Feb 2021 11:27 GMT	Number 44 (1947 - 1967) The Clark’s moved here from Dorking my father worked on the Thames as a captain of shell mex tankers,there were three children, CHristine, Barbara and Frank, my mother was Ida and my father Frank.Our house no 44 and 42 were pulled down and we were relocated to Bromley The rest of our family lived close by in Milton Court Rd, Brocklehurat Street, Chubworthy street so one big happy family..lovely days. Reply
Linda Pereira Street, E1 Added: 18 Feb 2021 22:03 GMT	Pereira Street, E1 My grandfather Charles Suett lived in Periera Street & married a widowed neighbour there. They later moved to 33 Bullen House, Collingwood Street where my father was born. Reply
Vanessa Whitehouse Ashburton Grove, N7 Added: 17 Feb 2021 22:48 GMT	Born here My dad 1929 John George Hall Reply
Giraud Street, E14 Added: 16 Feb 2021 13:41 GMT	Giraud Street I lived in Giraud St in 1938/1939. I lived with my Mother May Lillian Allen & my brother James Allen (Known as Lenny) My name is Tom Allen and was evacuated to Surrey from Giraud St. I am now 90 years of age. Reply
Justin Russ Binney Street, W1K Added: 15 Feb 2021 20:25 GMT	Binney Street, W1K Binney St was previously named Thomas Street before the 1950’s. Before the 1840’s (approx.) it was named Bird St both above and below Oxford St. Reply
Reg Carr Elstree Street, N1C Added: 10 Feb 2021 12:11 GMT	Campbellite Meeting In 1848 the Campbellites (Disciples of Christ) met in Elstree Street, where their congregation was presided over by a pastor named John Black. Their appointed evangelist at the time was called David King, who later became the Editor of the British Millennial Harbinger. The meeting room was visited in July 1848 by Dr John Thomas, who spoke there twice on his two-year ’mission’ to Britain. Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

48 Belgrave Square 48 Belgrave Square was occupied for the same family for 170 years.

48 Belgrave Square

An Omnibus Ride to Piccadilly Circus An Omnibus Ride to Piccadilly Circus, Mr Gladstone Travelling with Ordinary Passengers, 1885

An Omnibus Ride to Piccadilly Circus

Belgravia Belgravia is an affluent area of Westminster, north of Victoria Station.

Belgravia

Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace is the official London residence and principal workplace of the British monarch.

Buckingham Palace

Down Street Down Street, also known as Down Street (Mayfair), is a disused station on the London Underground, located in Mayfair.

Down Street

Goring Hotel The Goring Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, England.

Goring Hotel

Halkin Hotel The Halkin (styled as The Halkin by COMO) is a 5-star hotel.

Halkin Hotel

Hyde Park Corner At the other end of Park Lane from Marble Arch, Hyde Park Corner has struck terror into many a learner driver.

Hyde Park Corner

InterContinental London InterContinental London Park Lane is a luxury 5-star hotel.

InterContinental London

London Lock Hospital The London Lock Hospital was the first venereal disease clinic.

London Lock Hospital

Memorial Gates The Memorial Gates are a war memorial located at the Hyde Park Corner end of Constitution Hill in London.

Memorial Gates

RAF Bomber Command Memorial The Royal Air Force Bomber Command Memorial is a memorial commemorating the crews of RAF Bomber Command who embarked on missions during the Second World War.

RAF Bomber Command Memorial

Royal Aeronautical Society The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a British-founded multidisciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community.

Royal Aeronautical Society

Royal Air Force Club The Royal Air Force Club (often referred to as the RAF Club) is situated at 128 Piccadilly.

Royal Air Force Club

Royal Artillery Memorial The Royal Artillery Memorial is a stone memorial at Hyde Park Corner, dedicated to the First World War casualties of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

Royal Artillery Memorial

Royal Mews The Royal Mews is a mews (i.e. combined stables, carriage house and in recent times also the garage) of the British Royal Family.

Royal Mews

St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge is a Grade II* listed Anglican church.

St Paul’s Church, Knightsbridge

The Athenaeum Hotel The Athenaeum is a family-owned five-star hotel overlooking Green Park.

The Athenaeum Hotel

The Berkeley The Berkeley is a five star deluxe hotel, located in Wilton Place.

The Berkeley

Wellington Arch Wellington Arch is located to the south of Hyde Park at the western corner of Green Park.

Wellington Arch

NEARBY STREETS

Achilles Way, W1K Achilles Way is named for the nearby Wellington as Achilles statue in Hyde Park.

Achilles Way, W1K

Beeston Place, SW1W Beeston Place was formerly part of the Grosvenor family estate and the family owned land in Beeston, Cheshire.

Beeston Place, SW1W

Belgrave Mews North, SW1X Belgrave Mews North is a road in the SW1X postcode area

Belgrave Mews North, SW1X

Belgrave Mews South, SW1X Belgrave Mews South is a road in the SW1X postcode area

Belgrave Mews South, SW1X

Belgrave Mews West, SW1X Belgrave Mews West is home to the Star Tavern, former rendezvous of the Great Train Robbers.

Belgrave Mews West, SW1X

Belgrave Place, SW1X Belgrave Place is a road in the SW1X postcode area

Belgrave Place, SW1X

Belgrave Square, SW1X Thomas Cubitt’s greatest achievement, Belgrave Square, is the grandest and largest of his squares, and is the centrepiece of Belgravia.

Belgrave Square, SW1X

Brick Street, W1J Brick Street is one of the streets of London in the W1J postal area.

Brick Street, W1J

Buckingham Mews, SW1E Buckingham Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW1E postal area.

Buckingham Mews, SW1E

Buckingham Place, SW1E Buckingham Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1E postal area.

Buckingham Place, SW1E

Cardinal Walk, SW1E Cardinal Walk is a road in the SW1E postcode area

Cardinal Walk, SW1E

Catherine Place, SW1E Catherine Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1E postal area.

Catherine Place, SW1E

Chapel Street, SW1X Chapel Street runs south-west to north-east from Belgrave Square to Grosvenor Place.

Chapel Street, SW1X

Chesham Mews, SW1X Chesham Mews is a road in the SW1X postcode area

Chesham Mews, SW1X

Chesham Place, SW1X Chesham Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Chesham Place, SW1X

Chester Close, W1M Chester Close is a road in the W1M postcode area

Chester Close, W1M

Chester Mews, SW1X Chester Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Chester Mews, SW1X

Chester Street, W1M Chester Street dates from 1805.

Chester Street, W1M

Constitution Hill, SW1A Constitution Hill connects Buckingham Palace with Hyde Park Corner.

Constitution Hill, SW1A

Down Street, W1J Down Street is one of the streets of London in the W1J postal area.

Down Street, W1J

Duke of Wellington Place, W1J Duke of Wellington Place is a road in the SW1X postcode area

Duke of Wellington Place, W1J

Eland House, SW1E Eland House is an office building on Bressenden Place.

Eland House, SW1E

Groom Place, SW1X Groom Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Groom Place, SW1X

Grosvenor Crescent Mews, SW1X Grosvenor Crescent Mews is a gated mews.

Grosvenor Crescent Mews, SW1X

Grosvenor Crescent, SW1X Grosvenor Crescent is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Grosvenor Crescent, SW1X

Grosvenor Gardens Mews East, SW1W Grosvenor Gardens Mews East is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area.

Grosvenor Gardens Mews East, SW1W

Grosvenor Place, SW1X Grosvenor Place is the main road connecting Hyde Park Corner with Victoria.

Grosvenor Place, SW1X

Halkin Street, SW1X Halkin Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Halkin Street, SW1X

Hamilton Mews, W1J Hamilton Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1J postal area.

Hamilton Mews, W1J

Hamilton Place, W1J Hamilton Place lies just to the north of Hyde Park Corner.

Hamilton Place, W1J

Headfort Place, SW1X Headfort Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Headfort Place, SW1X

Hobart Place, SW1W Hobart Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area.

Hobart Place, SW1W

Holforoad Way, W1J A street within the W1J postcode

Holforoad Way, W1J

Holforoad Way, W1J A street within the W1J postcode

Holforoad Way, W1J

Hyde Park Corner, W1J Hyde Park Corner is a major road junction at the southeastern corner of Hyde Park.

Hyde Park Corner, W1J

Lambs Close, SW1W Lambs Close is a road in the SW1W postcode area

Lambs Close, SW1W

Lanesborough Place, SW1X Lanesborough Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Lanesborough Place, SW1X

Little Chester Street, SW1X Little Chester Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Little Chester Street, SW1X

Lower Grosvenor Place, SW1W Lower Grosvenor Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1W postal area.

Lower Grosvenor Place, SW1W

Milkmaid’s Passage, SW1A Milkmaid’s Passage is a road in the SW1A postcode area

Milkmaid’s Passage, SW1A

Montrose Place, SW1X Montrose Place is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Montrose Place, SW1X

Old Barrack Yard, SW1X Old Barrack Yard is a narrow street of terraced cottages.

Old Barrack Yard, SW1X

Old Park Lane, W1J Old Park Lane is a road in the W1J postcode area

Old Park Lane, W1J

Palace Street, SW1E Palace Street is one of the streets of London in the SW1E postal area.

Palace Street, SW1E

Palace Street, SW1E This is a street in the SW1 postcode area

Palace Street, SW1E

Pembroke Close, SW1X Pembroke Close is a road in the SW1X postcode area

Pembroke Close, SW1X

Portland House Portland House is a block 101 metres tall with 29 floors.

Portland House

Roebuck House, SW1E Residential block

Roebuck House, SW1E

Stag Place, SW1E The old brewhouse of the Westminster Abbey moved to Stag Place after the dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century.

Stag Place, SW1E

The Royal Mews, SW1E The Royal Mews is a road in the SW1W postcode area

The Royal Mews, SW1E

The Royal Mews, SW1E The Royal Mews is a road in the SW1E postcode area

The Royal Mews, SW1E

Upper Belgrave Street, SW1X Upper Belgrave Street was constructed in the 1840s to connect Belgrave Square with the King’s Road.

Upper Belgrave Street, SW1X

Victoria Square, SW1E Victoria Square, a small residential square, lies on land forming part of the Grosvenor Estate to the south of the Royal Mews.

Victoria Square, SW1E

Warwick Row, SW1E Warwick Row is one of the streets of London in the SW1E postal area.

Warwick Row, SW1E

Wilton Crescent, SW1X Wilton Crescent is notable for its affluent and politically important list of residents, present and historic.

Wilton Crescent, SW1X

Wilton Mews, SW1X Wilton Mews is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Wilton Mews, SW1X

Wilton Row, SW1X Wilton Row is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Wilton Row, SW1X

Wilton Street, SW1X Wilton Street was built in 1817.

Wilton Street, SW1X

Wilton Terrace, SW1X Wilton Terrace is one of the streets of London in the SW1X postal area.

Wilton Terrace, SW1X

Queen’s Park

Queen’s Park lies between Kilburn and Kensal Green, developed from 1875 onwards and named to honour Queen Victoria.

The north of Queen’s Park formed part of the parish of Willesden and the southern section formed an exclave of the parish of Chelsea, both in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex. In 1889 the area of the Metropolitan Board of Works that included the southern section of Queen’s Park was transferred from Middlesex to the County of London, and in 1900 the anomaly of being administered from Chelsea was removed when the exclave was united with the parish of Paddington. In 1965 both parts of Queen’s Park became part of Greater London: the northern section - Queen’s Park ’proper’ formed part of Brent and the southern section - the Queen’s Park Estate - joined the City of Westminster.

Queen’s Park, like much of Kilburn, was developed by Solomon Barnett. The two-storey terraced houses east of the park, built between 1895 and 1900, typically have clean, classical lines. Those west of the park, built 1900–05, tend to be more Gothic in style. Barnett’s wife was from the West Country, and many of the roads he developed are named either for places she knew (e.g. Torbay, Tiverton, Honiton) or for popular poets of the time (e.g. Tennyson). The first occupants of the area in late Victorian times were typically lower middle class, such as clerks and teachers. Queen’s Park is both demographically and architecturally diverse. The streets around the park at the heart of Queen’s Park are a conservation area.

There is hardly any social housing in the streets around Queens Park itself, and the area was zoned as not suitable for social housing in the 1970s and 1980s as even then house prices were above average for the borough of Brent, which made them unaffordable for local Housing Associations. The main shopping streets of Salusbury Road and Chamberlayne Road have fewer convenience stores and more high-value shops and restaurants. Local schools – some of which struggled to attract the children of wealthier local families in the past – are now over-subscribed. House prices have risen accordingly.

Queen’s Park station was first opened by the London and North Western Railway on 2 June 1879 on the main line from London to Birmingham.

Services on the Bakerloo line were extended from Kilburn Park to Queen’s Park on 11 February 1915. On 10 May 1915 Bakerloo services began to operate north of Queen’s Park as far as Willesden Junction over the recently built Watford DC Line tracks shared with the LNWR.

LOCAL PHOTOS

Wood engraving showing mothers, with their children, exercising at Tothill Fields Prison, London. Shelfmark: Crime 9 (64) Credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9228986 TUM image id: 1504357431 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Wellington Statue on the Arch in the 1850s Credit: Unknown TUM image id: 1515432472 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Exterior of the memorial in 2013. Credit: Tim Rademacher TUM image id: 1515433432 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The 52 bus TUM image id: 1556876554 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Boscobel Oaks, 1804 TUM image id: 1487173198 Licence: CC BY 2.0
The sign for the "Stage Door", formerly a pub in Allington Street, SW1 Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1593785741 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Belgrave Square Credit: Thomas Shepherd TUM image id: 1586353394 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Eaton Square Credit: GoArt/The Underground Map TUM image id: 1586358889 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Grosvenor Gardens Mews East TUM image id: 1544975168 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Hyde Park Corner in 1842, looking east towards Piccadilly. The entrance to Hyde Park through Decimus Burton’s Ionic Screen is on the left, and behind it, in darker stone, is Apsley House. TUM image id: 1515431312 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Lowndes Street, c. 1905. TUM image id: 1483984242 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Edbury Square, c. 1906. TUM image id: 1483984627 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Boscobel Place TUM image id: 1546446783 Licence: CC BY 2.0