Connaught Street

[1] Located in the City of Westminster, it is part of the Tyburnia area of Paddington north of Hyde Park.

The street contains a mixture of commercial and residential properties, forming part of Connaught Village.

It is located close to the historic Tyburn, a site of public executions until the eighteenth century on the outskirts of London.

The growing population of the capital led Samuel Pepys Cockerell to lay out an ambitious scheme for redeveloping the area as up-market residential district.

Formally part of the Bishop of London's estate, the new plans were amended by George Gutch after Cockerell's death.