Devonshire Street
Names
- Devonshire Street
Street/Area/District
- Devonshire Street
Maps & Views
Descriptions
from A New View of London, by Edward Hatton (1708)
Devonshire street, a spacious new str. on the N. side of the Red lion square, running Nd from Drake str. at the NW corner of the square, L. about 230 Yds, and from Cha+ NEly 1560 Yds.
from A Survey of the Cities of London and Westminster, by John Strype (1720)
[Devonshire Street.] Thumbal's Row, falls into Kings Gate street, a Place of no Account, and but meanly inhabited. Out of this Row, is Devonshire street, which runneth Northwards into the Fields, near unto the Devil's Conduit. And at the upper end of the said Street, is a designed Square, having the Foundation of some Houses laid. One of which is large, and designed for one of the Sons of the Duke of Devonshire, and therefore so called. The West side of this Street is built with good Houses, but the East side lieth yet open.
from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)
Devonshire Street, Queen square, Great Ormond street.
from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)
Devonshire-Street, Queen Square,—at the S.E. corner, extending to 59, Theobalds-road; it is also the continuation of Drake-st. from the N.W. corner of Red-lion-square.
from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)
Devonshire Street, Bloomsbury, leading from Theobald's Road to Queen Square. According to Curll, Pope was at school here.
The last school he was put to, before the twelfth year of his age, was in Devonshire Street near Bloomsbury. ... It was kept by one Bromley, a Popish Renegade.—Preface to Lit. Corr., vol. ii. p. xix., 12mo, 1735.
William Brockedon (d. 1854), artist and author of The Passes of the Alps, lived at No. 29 for several years from 1828.