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At the southwest corner of the Estate, where Marble Arch now stands, was the Tyburn gallows, London's principal place of public execution until 1783. Development of the area north of the Marylebone Road around Dorset Square continued after 1815, and to the North West in Lisson Green, workers’ cottages were built from 1820 to 1840.
The arch with The Cumberland Hotel, Great Cumberland Place and the trees of Bryanston Square beyond, parts of the British Regency-architecture Portman Estate. The Marble Arch is a 19th-century white marble-faced triumphal arch in London, England.
Its southern end is about 180 metres northwest of Marble Arch and about 40 metres east of Edgware Road. Seymour Place was created when the former Portman Estate was redeveloped into a largely grid-like residential pattern in the eighteenth century to accommodate the growing population of London.
Montagu Square. Montagu Square is a garden square in Marylebone, London.It is centred 550 metres north of Marble Arch.It spans 810 feet (250 m) by 150 feet (46 m). and is oriented on an axis of about NNW.
The junction of these was the site of the famous Tyburn Gallows (known colloquially as the "Tyburn Tree"), now occupied by Marble Arch. So, for many centuries the name Tyburn was synonymous with capital punishment: it was the principal place for execution for London and Middlesex criminals and convicted traitors, including many religious martyrs.
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It is parallel to Baker Street to the east and forms part of the A41 road from nearby Marble Arch. The Portman Estate was developed into grids of streets for affluent residential housing from the mid-eighteenth century. [1] Gloucester Place was named after the Duke of Gloucester, younger brother of George III. [2]