Qualla: Marylebone https://qualla.com/marylebone en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:15 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/marylebone-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Marylebone https://qualla.com/marylebone Marylebone: Introduction https://qualla.com/marylebone/ Photo credit QuintusPetillius, CC BY-SA 4.0. Marylebone is one of the few London neighbourhoods named after a creek. The hamlet that grew up here in the late Middle Ages built a parish church in 1400 dedicated to St Mary, and the Anglo-Saxon word burna — a small stream — gave the church and then the village its full name: St Mary-le-bourne, eventually elided into Marylebone. The village wanted distance from the place it had been previously identified with. About 900 metres south of the new church stood the Tyburn gallows, where for centuries London had carried out its most public executions. The villagers chose the church and the stream over the gallows, and the name stuck.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/marylebone-wp/gcpv-marylebone-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Marylebone: A Stream Buried Under a Grid https://qualla.com/marylebone/ Photo credit CVB, CC BY-SA 4.0. Walk down Marylebone Lane today and you can still see the curve. The eighteenth-century surveyors who laid out Cavendish Square in a rational grid had to bend their lanes around a small watercourse — the Tyburn — that rose up in Hampstead and ran south through the parish. The str...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/marylebone-wp/gcpv-marylebone-a-stream-buried-under-a-grid.mp3 0:06 2 full Marylebone: Where Sherlock Holmes Never Lived https://qualla.com/marylebone/ Photo credit Stephen Richards, CC BY-SA 2.0. There is no 221B Baker Street in 1881, when Arthur Conan Doyle began writing about Sherlock Holmes — the street numbers ended in the low hundreds. Marylebone is full of these almost-places. At 2 Upper Wimpole Street, Conan Doyle himself opened an ophthalmic practice in 1891, befo...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/marylebone-wp/gcpv-marylebone-where-sherlock-holmes-never-lived.mp3 0:06 3 full Marylebone: Bare Knuckles, Then Broadcasting https://qualla.com/marylebone/ Photo credit Ordnance Survey, Public domain. In the eighteenth century, Marylebone was known for entertainments that polite Londoners learned to look askance at. Marylebone Gardens hosted bear-baiting and prize fights with combatants of both sexes; the duelling grounds in Marylebone Fields drew aristocrats with grievances a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/marylebone-wp/gcpv-marylebone-bare-knuckles-then-broadcasting.mp3 0:06 4 full Marylebone: The Wax Lady and the Cricket Ground https://qualla.com/marylebone/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Two unrelated arrivals at the start of the nineteenth century helped fix the Marylebone identity. In 1835 Marie Tussaud — a French wax-modeller who had made death masks during the Revolution and then toured Britain for thirty years — finally settled her travelling exhibition at a...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/v/marylebone-wp/gcpv-marylebone-the-wax-lady-and-the-cricket-ground.mp3 0:06 5 full Marylebone: A Quieter Centre https://qualla.com/marylebone/ Photo credit Philafrenzy, CC BY-SA 4.0. Marylebone never became as loud as Soho to the south or as grand as Mayfair to the west. That is its character. It produced a metropolitan borough in 1899 — independent for sixty-six years before being absorbed into the City of Westminster in 1965 — and it gave the world a railwa...

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