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Regent Street
Regent Street is one of London's principal commercial thoroughfares, sweeping from Piccadilly Circus in the south through Oxford Circus and northward to a junction near Broadcasting House, where it becomes Portland Place. The stretch above Oxford Circus, with the W1B postal address, sits on the eastern boundary of Marylebone, and the street's conception was intimately linked to the area's Georgian development.
The street was laid out between approximately 1811 and 1825 to a design by John Nash, acting on the commission of the Prince Regent, later George IV. Its purpose was to create a formal processional route connecting Carlton House in the south with the new Regent's Park to the north, and in doing so it imposed a planned diagonal across the existing street grid. The Quadrant, the curved section approaching Piccadilly Circus, was the only portion Nash built directly.
The original colonnaded facades were demolished in 1848, and the present stone-fronted buildings largely date from an Edwardian rebuilding completed by the 1920s. The Regent Cinema at No. 309 (W1B 2UW) is among the notable Marylebone-addressed properties on the northern section. The street forms a clear visual and commercial divide, with the Oxford Street intersection at its midpoint marking a shift in character between the southern luxury retail quarter and the quieter professional and residential streets of Marylebone above.
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