Wimpole Street

Names

  • Wimpole Street
  • Wimple Street

Street/Area/District

  • Wimpole Street

Maps & Views

Descriptions

from London and Its Environs Described, by Robert and James Dodsley (1761)

Wimple Street, Henrietta street.

from Lockie's Topography of London, by John Lockie (1810)

Wimpole-Street, Cavendish-Square,—a few doors W. of it, or op. Oxford-chapel, entering by 151, Oxford-st.

from A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs, by James Elmes (1831)

Wimpole-St., Cavendish-square, is a few houses westward of the square.

from London Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions, by Henry Benjamin Wheatley and Peter Cunningham (1891)

Wimpole Street, Cavendish Square, so called from Wimpole, in Cambridgeshire, sold by the second Earl of Oxford to Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. In No. 12 lived Admiral Lord Hood; in 1809 he was living in No. 37. In No. 67 Henry Hallam wrote his History of the Middle Ages, and his Constitutional History of England. In No. 65 lived, in 1792, Sir Elijah Impey. Here (then the house of his brother-in-law, Sir Benjamin Hall) was the first London residence of Baron Bunsen. Early in 1759 Edmund Burke was resident in Wimpole Street, "the chief expenses of housekeeping being sustained by Dr. Nugent."1

William Wilkie Collins, the novelist, died at his house, No. 82, on September 23, 1889.


1 Prior's Life of Burke, p. 56, and see Forster's Goldsmith, vol. i. p. 294.