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Shouldham Street
Shouldham Street runs east-west in the north-west corner of Marylebone, connecting Edgware Road in the west with the junction of Homer Row and Crawford Street in the east. It falls within the W1H postal district and forms part of the Portman Estate's outer grid, close to the estate's boundary with the Lisson Grove neighbourhood. The street is named after Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham (c. 1717-1798), an eighteenth-century Royal Navy admiral who served in both the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence, and served as Governor of Newfoundland from 1772. The nearby Molyneux Street carries the second part of his name, and both streets together commemorate a figure of some distinction in the later Georgian navy.
The surrounding streets developed in the first decade of the nineteenth century, with Crawford Place, immediately adjacent, originally known as John Street West before being renamed. The area falls within the Molyneux Conservation Area, which recognises the coherence of the surviving early nineteenth-century townscape of Georgian terraced houses along these western Portman Estate streets.
Shouldham Street is a predominantly residential street today, retaining the scale and grain of its original development. It connects to the broader network of Portman Estate streets heading east toward Portman Square, while its western end gives immediate access to Edgware Road and the local amenities along that corridor.
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