Eia

A smaller sub-manor called Ebury or Eybury, containing the hamlet Eye Cross, was originally part of the manor (and are derivations in name).

[3] The modern hereditary title Baron Ebury, was created in 1857 for Robert Grosvenor, the owner of the estate, of an ancient and prominent gentry family of Cheshire.

Eia was a rural manor during the early medieval period, on land adjacent to the River Tyburn (a reduced catchment form of which flows beneath the courtyard and south wing of Buckingham Palace), immediately west and north of Thorney Island, on the Thames, which became the site of Westminster Abbey.

[7] Neyte may have been the inspiration for Knightsbridge, considerably beyond the north side, which centred on a bridge over water on one of the great, Roman-founded, roads leading west-south-west from the City of London.

In 1536 on the Dissolution of the Monasteries the Manor of Ebury became one of the many possessions of Westminster Abbey which reverted to the Crown (which is considered the foundation of all land ownership)[10] and the Court of Augmentations.

Audley and Davies were key figures in the development of Ebury Manor into a suburb of the City of London, now comprising Mayfair, Belgravia and Park Lane.

[14] In 1761 the mansion returned to the ownership of the royal family (which had retained the adjoining site of the Mulberry Garden), when it was sold to King George III,[15] for either £21,000[16] or, possibly, £28,000.

Part of the former manor of Eia, in Grosvenor Place, Belgravia ; the grounds of Buckingham Palace are in the centre background.
Ebury Street, Belgravia. This part of the street has been renamed Mozart Terrace after the composer Wolfgang Mozart , who in 1764 stayed at the house to the left of the lamp post and composed his first symphony there.
Buckingham House, the core element of today's Buckingham Palace, was built in the 1700s by John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby to the design of William Winde .
Buckingham Palace, principal façade ; it was originally built to the design of Edward Blore and completed in 1850. It acquired its present appearance (shown above) following a 1913 remodelling by Sir Aston Webb .