Plan presented to the House of Commons, of a street proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place, leading to the Crown Estate in Mary-le-Bone Park

Plan presented to the House of Commons, of a street proposed from Charing Cross to Portland Place, leading to the Crown Estate in Mary-le-Bone Park

Urban expansion and crown land in London

This original design for Regent Street was commissioned by the House of Commons. The title appears along the top, with a descriptive note below the plan and a scale bar at the bottom centre. Crown Property is highlighted in blue. Starting at Carlton House, Regent Street ran through crownland at Piccadilly (where a circus was built) before turning north-west along Swallow Street, in Soho, finally joining Portland Place north of Oxford Street.

James Basire

British Library

1813

Diane Jakacki

Public domain

English

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/crace/p/007zzz000000012u00016000.html

London, England