Westmoreland Street, London
Former name(s) | Woodstock Street (north part) |
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Area | Marylebone |
Location | City of Westminster |
Postal code | W1G |
Coordinates | 51°31′11″N 00°09′00″W / 51.51972°N 0.15000°W |
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Westmoreland Street is in the
Origins and location
Westmoreland Street is located in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London, and runs from Beaumont Street and Weymouth Street in the north to New Cavendish Street in the south. Woodstock Mews is accessed from its eastern side, and Wheatley Street and De Walden Street join it on its western side. It was built from the 1760s by the local builder William Franks.[1] The origin of its name is unknown.[2]
The northern section above Wheatley Street was originally named Woodstock Street,[1][3] which is still the name of the adjoining mews, and was a separate and narrower street. It was widened in 1862 and 1874 until the two streets became one.[1]
Another location with the same name, Westmoreland Street, SW1, was renamed to Westmoreland Terrace in the 1930s.[4]
Buildings
The street was formerly the location of the Tichfield Chapel,
It is the former home of the National Heart Hospital, which moved there from Soho Square in 1914,
Westmoreland Street and Wheatley Street were seriously damaged by German bombing during the Second World War with the whole of Wheatley Street marked as damaged to some degree. Numbers 18 to 28 on the south side of Wheatley at the Westmoreland end were hit in September 1940 during the
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Chapter 16: Beaumont Street to New Cavendish Street" Archived 31 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine in South-East Marylebone, Survey of London Vols. 51 & 52, London, 2017.
- ^ "Westmoreland Street" in Gillian Bebbington (1972) London Street Names. London: B.T. Batsford. p. 343. ISBN 0713401400.
- ^ Laxton, Paul & Joseph Wisdom. (1985) The A to Z of Regency London. London: London Topographical Society. p. 24. ISBN 0902087193
- ^ "A-Z Old to New Street names".
- ^ The Building News, 17 October 1879.
- ^ Smith, Thomas. (1833) A Topographical and Historical Account of the Parish of St. Mary-le-Bone &c. Archived 7 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine London: John Smith. p. 125.
- ^ "The Late Rev. T. Hartwell Horne", The Illustrated London News, Vol. 40, No. 1132 (22 February 1862), p. 190.
- ISBN 978-0-19-289740-4. Archivedfrom the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ 1879 – St James's Church, Marylebone, London Archived 7 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine archiseek. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ St. James' Chapel. (Welbeck Chapel) Westmoreland Street. Archived 7 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine National Archives. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- from the original on 10 March 2022. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-230-73878-2.)
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ ISBN 978-1-4039-8730-3. Archivedfrom the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 8 March 2022.
- ^ "Man of 45 gets new heart in first British transplant", The Times, 4 May 1968, p. 1.
- ISBN 978-0-230-23470-3. Archivedfrom the original on 17 March 2022. Retrieved 11 March 2022.
- ^ NHS buys private heart hospital. Archived 17 January 2008 at the Wayback Machine BBC News, 8 August 2001. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
- ^ University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street (formerly the Heart Hospital). Archived 9 October 2015 at the Wayback Machine University College London Hospitals. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- ^ a b Ward, Laurence. (2015) The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps 1939–1945. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 92. ISBN 9780500518250
External links
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