Nottingham Place
Nottingham Place is a north-south street in Marylebone, running from Marylebone Road in the north to Paddington Street in the south. It lies within the Howard de Walden Estate and takes its name from the Harley family's estates in Nottinghamshire. The street reflects the estate's naming practice of drawing on the family's landholdings and titles in the English Midlands.
The street carries a notable record of distinguished residents. The social reformer Octavia Hill lived here from 1860 and ran a school on the street, having sought assistance from John Ruskin to acquire a property with a garden for use as a children's playground. The stained glass artist Charles Eamer Kempe (1837 to 1907) lived and worked at no. 37, and a blue plaque marks the site. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, also resided on the street at a period consistent with his professional life in the medical quarter to the south.
Today the street maintains a mixed character of residential properties and professional offices, including several medical and diplomatic tenants. The High Commission of the Maldives and the Latvian Embassy are among the institutional occupants. Nottingham Place is closely connected to the broader Harley Street medical district, which lies immediately to the south-west.
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