Thom, Colin; Richardson, Harriet; (2017) Chapter 13: Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place. In: Temple, Philip and Thom, Colin and Saint, Andrew, (eds.) Survey of London - South-East Marylebone. Yale University Press / Paul Mellon Centre: New Haven (US) & London (UK).

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Wimpole Street, Upper Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place make up one of the longest thoroughfares on the Howard de Walden estate, extending more than half a mile from Henrietta Place to Marylebone Road. The names commemorate Wimpole near the Cambridgeshire–Hertfordshire border, a seat of the Cavendish and Harley families until 1740, and the Cavendish dukedom. Development began at the south end in the 1720s and after a long hiatus progressed northwards block by block, finally reaching completion in the 1790s. Most of the original houses to survive are in Upper Wimpole Street and Devonshire Place, where irrespective of later alterations the grand terraces still convey a strong sense of late-Georgian urbanity. Together with the more popularly renowned Harley Street, the whole stretch of road now forms the core of Marylebone’s private medical quarter.

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