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Marylebone was an Ancient Parish formed to serve the manors (landholdings) of Lileston (in the west, which gives its name to modern Lisson Grove) and Tyburn in the east. The parish is likely to have been in place since at least the twelfth century and will have used the boundaries of the pre-existing manors.
Madame Tussauds (UK: / t uː ˈ s ɔː d z /, US: / t uː ˈ s oʊ z /) [1] [N. 1] is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. [2] [3] One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843.
It is the world's first museum dedicated to the literary character Sherlock Holmes. It opened in 1990 and is situated on Baker Street , bearing the number 221B by permission of the City of Westminster , [ 1 ] although it lies between numbers 237 and 241, [ 2 ] near the north end of Baker Street in central London close to Regent's Park .
Manchester Square is an 18th-century garden square in Marylebone, London. Centred 950 feet (290 m) north of Oxford Street it measures 300 feet (91 m) internally north-to-south, and 280 feet (85 m) across. It is a small Georgian predominantly 1770s-designed instance in central London; construction began around 1776.
"A view of the Orchestra with the Band of Music, the Grand Walk &c in Marybone Gardens", engraving from a drawing by J. Donowell, 1761. Marylebone Gardens or Marybone Gardens was a London pleasure garden sited in the grounds of the old manor house of Marylebone and frequented from the mid-17th century, [1] when Marylebone was a village separated from London by fields and market gardens, to the ...
The Brown Collection is a museum in Marylebone, central London founded by British contemporary artist Glenn Brown. [1] Opened to the public in October 2022, the renovated 1905 mews warehouse has four floors of exhibition space, an archive and offices.
The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. It was based directly on the previously existing civil parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex , which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Board of Works area in 1855, retaining a parish vestry , and then became part of the County of ...
The area of Marylebone in which Weymouth Street is located originally belonged to the Manor of Tyburn which existed at the time of the Domesday Book (1086). [2] Weymouth Street was first laid out and built up in the late 1770s and early 1780s in line with the development of Harley Street , Portland Place and Great Portland Street . [ 3 ]