George Street, Marylebone

[1] The area is part of the old Portman Estate which was redeveloped into a grid of streets for affluent housing.

[3] The street also contains Durrants Hotel, opposite the rear of Hertford House, the home of the Wallace Collection.

The Irish writer Thomas Moore lived in the street and a blue plaque now commemorates him.

[4] At the southern end of Bryanston Square is a memorial fountain to William Pitt Byrne, editor of Morning Post newspaper.

[6] In the 1930s Wallis Simpson lived in an apartment in Bryanston Court, where her future husband Edward, Prince of Wales used to call on her.