Picton Place
Picton Place is a short street in central Marylebone, running off Duke Street and falling within the W1U postcode. At approximately 78 metres in length, it is one of the smaller streets in the neighbourhood, but its compact scale is characteristic of the grid of minor streets and mews that give this part of Marylebone much of its character.
The street is named after General Sir Thomas Picton, a senior British Army officer who served during the Napoleonic Wars and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Picton was the highest-ranking British officer to die at Waterloo, and a number of streets, squares and public buildings across Britain were named in his memory in the years following the battle. The street's name is therefore a record of the patriotic commemorative impulse that ran through early 19th-century London's urban development.
The architecture along Picton Place reflects the Georgian and early Victorian fabric that defines much of this part of Marylebone, with the street sitting within the Howard de Walden Estate's eastern holdings. It is well-positioned for access to Oxford Street to the south and the medical and professional district centred on Harley Street to the north. Westminster City Council maintains the carriageway as a publicly adopted road. Ground-floor commercial use has been a feature of the street for many years, and it remains a pedestrian-friendly passage within the wider Marylebone grid.
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