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The plasterer Richard Hopkins, who leased land here from Edward Wardour from about 1709. Gillian Bebbington in London Street Names says that in 1631 Sir Edward Wardour, a prominent official of the Exchequer, purchased an ancient field called Colman Hedge Close on the site of modern Wardour Street. After his death in 1647 the Close descended to his grandson, another Edward Wardour, who set about developing property on the site in the 1680s using the services of Hopkins, bricklayer Richard Tyler, and paviour Thomas Green. They are all still remembered in the names Wardour Street and nearby Tyler’s Court, and Green’s Court. The street appears on John Rocque’s 1746 map of London.
