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The bricklayer, Richard Tyler, who leased land here from Edward Wardour in the early 18thCentury. 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 Tyler, plasterer Richard Hopkins and paviour Thomas Green. They are all still remembered in the names Wardour Street and nearby Hopkins Street, and Green’s Court. Tyler’s Court replaced an earlier Frying Pan Alley between Berwick Street and Wardour Street which appears on John Rocque’s 1746 map of London. By the time Richard Horwood published his plan in 1792 it had been so-named. Dan Cruickshank in Soho says that Tyler built many houses in the area of modern Carnaby Street including Karnaby House, from about 1683, which gave its name to the eponymous Carnaby Street.
