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Forset Street
Forset Street sits in the northwestern corner of Marylebone within the W1H postal district, connecting into a network of residential streets that includes Harrowby Street, Nutford Place, and George Street. The street falls within the Westminster City Council area and is adopted as publicly maintained highway, placing its repair and upkeep with the borough rather than a private estate.
The most notable address on Forset Street is the corner it shares with Nutford Place, home to Hampden Gurney Church of England Primary School. The school's origins trace to a St Luke's school established in 1860, though that building was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940. The current Hampden Gurney school was established in 1863 and continues to operate as a Church of England Voluntary Aided school in the Diocese of London, making it one of the longer-standing educational institutions in the immediate neighbourhood.
The street itself is modest in scale, reflecting the character of this part of Marylebone between the Edgware Road to the west and the grander planned estates to the east. The area north of Oxford Street in this corner of W1H was developed in the nineteenth century as working and lower-middle-class housing, contrasting with the more formally planned Georgian streets of the Portman Estate further east. Oxford Street lies a short distance to the south, providing the principal transport and commercial connections for residents of Forset Street.
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