Street names of Mayfair
This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Mayfair, in the City of Westminster. It utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Mayfair viz. Marble Arch/Cumberland Gate and Oxford Street to the north, Regent Street to the east, Piccadilly to the south and Park Lane to the west. Achilles Way – after the nearby Wellington as Achilles statue in Hyde Park Adam's Row – believed to be after John Adams, local land agent in the 18th century Air Street – believed to be a corruption of ‘Ayres’, after Thomas Ayre, a local brewer and resident in the 17th century Albany and Albany Courtyard – after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, who in 1791 purchased Melbourne House which stood on this site Albemarle Street – after the Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, owner of Clarendon House which stood on this site in the late 17th century Aldford Street – after Aldford, a property on the Grosvenor family's Cheshire estates; it was formerly known as Chapel Street before 1886, as it led to the Grosvenor Chapel Archibald Mews – unknown; it was formerly John Court, after local landowner John, Lord Berkeley Audley Square, North Audley Street and South Audley Street – after Mary Davies, heiress to Hugh Audley, who married Sir Thomas Grosvenor, thereby letting the local land fall into the Grosvenors' ownership Avery Row – after Henry Avery, 18th century bricklayer who built this street over the Tyburn Brook, or possibly after Ebury, the ancient manor here Balderton Street – after local landowners the Grosvenors, who also owned land in Balderton, Cheshire; formerly George Street Balfour Mews and Balfour Place – after Eustace Balfour, surveyor for the Grosvenor estate 1890 – 1910 Barlow Place – after either Thomas Barlow, builder and surveyor for the Grosvenor estate in the early 18th century or Arthur Balfour, politician and later Prime Minister in the early 20th century Berkeley Square and Berkeley Street – Berkeley House formerly stood here, home of John Berkeley, 3rd Baron Berkeley of Stratton in the late 17th century Binney Street – after Reverend Thomas Binney, local 19th century minister; formerly called Bird Street Blenheim Street – after Blenheim Palace, owned by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 17th – 18th century general Blackburne's Mews – after William Blackburne, local resident in the early 18th century Bloomfield Place – John Newson, who built the adjacent Bloomfield Flats, named them for his wife's maiden name Bolton Street – after Charles Powlett, Duke of Bolton, who owned this land when the street was built in 1699 Bourdon Place and Bourdon Street – after the former Bourdon House, home of the Bourdon/Burden family in the early 18th century Boyle Street – after Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, local landowner in the 18th century Brick Street – this area was formerly a set of fields used for digging brick-earth Broadbent Street – after William Broadbent, physician to the royal family in the Victorian and Edwardian