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Virgil Place
Virgil Place is a short street within the Portman Estate in western Marylebone, carrying the W1U postcode. It belongs to a cluster of streets on this part of the estate that were given classical literary names by the landowners during the period of development in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
The street is named in allusion to the Roman poet Virgil, following a pattern found nearby in Homer Row and Cato Street, all of which reflect the fashion for classical references among the educated landowning families who developed Marylebone during the Georgian era. The Portman Estate, which had been in the family since the sixteenth century and was built out systematically from the 1760s onwards, used such naming as a mark of cultural aspiration consistent with the ambitions of the estate's residential development.
Virgil Place itself is modest in scale, as many of the short connecting streets on the Portman Estate are, designed to provide access and address to residential terraces rather than to serve as principal thoroughfares. The surrounding grid of Crawford Street, Seymour Place and the streets running between them gives the neighbourhood a consistent late-Georgian and early-Victorian character.
The street lies within easy reach of the independent retail and food offer along Marylebone High Street to the east, while remaining a quiet and predominantly residential address within the Portman Estate.
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