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Durweston Street
Durweston Street is one of the shorter streets in Marylebone, measuring approximately 69 metres in length. It sits in the W1H postal district, within the Portman Estate's western holdings, and is crossed by Crawford Street. The street falls under the City of Westminster for maintenance and highway purposes.
The name follows a consistent pattern found across the Portman Estate: streets named after Dorset villages and properties that the Portman family held over several centuries. Durweston is a village in the Stour valley in Dorset that formed part of the Bryanstone estate, in the ownership of the Portman family until after the Second World War, when the estate passed to the Crown in 1951. Other nearby streets, including Crawford Street, named after Tarrant Crawford in Dorset, reflect the same convention of transplanting the family's rural geography into the London street plan.
The Portman Estate was founded in 1532 when the land was first leased to Sir William Portman, with serious urban development beginning in the 1760s under Henry William Portman, following the Peace of 1763. Durweston Street's modest scale and W1H position, close to Portman Square, places it near the original western perimeter of the estate's development. The street is predominantly residential and commercial in character, with no individual buildings of particular listed status recorded in available sources.
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