Place Name Richard Grosvenor (January 27, 1795 – October 31, 1869), become the 2nd Marquess of Westminster, in 1845. Richard, the…
Place Name In 1824 Robert Grosvenor, employed Thomas Cundy, and then his son, as architect and surveyor, and Thomas Cubitt,…
Place Name Sir Richard Grosvenor, 4th Baronet (June 26, 1689 – July 12, 1732) was the third son, and eldest…
Place Name There has been a road or tow path alongside the River Thames since at least John Rocque’s 1746…
Place Name Overlooking Buckingham Palace’s gardens, this certainly counts as one of the most exclusive addresses in London. It was…
Place Name Samuel Pickwick is the eponymous leader of the Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens’s widely successful first novel – originally told…
Place Name The Pickwick Papers was Charles Dickens’s widely successful first novel – originally told as a part work –…
Place Name Originally Orange Street. It is named after the eponymous hero of Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield whose ever…
Place Name Previously Union Square. Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9, 1870) was an author, journalist, and…
Place Name Previously the site of Falcon Court. Charles Dickens wrote extensively about the notorious Marshalsea debtors’ prison where his…