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London Streets and Squares: Regent

Regent Street was named by John Nash, the architect, after his royal patron, the Prince Regent. It was commenced in 1813. Conduit Street received its name from the conduit or spring-head set up in the meadow formerly known as "Conduit Mead," now swallowed up by Old Bond Street.

Maddox Street was built by one Maddox in 1720.

Brook Street reminds us of the pleasant stream that wound its way from Tyburn down to Leicester Fields, where it was designated the Cranbourne, and ultimately spent itself in the Thames. Mill Street affords us an additional memory of the rurality of London in bygone times. George Street (also St. George's Church), Hanover Street, and Hanover Square were designations in honour of the Hanoverian succession in the person of George I. Davies Street, connecting Berkeley Square with Oxford Street, received its name in compliment to Miss Mary Davies, the heiress of Ebury Manor, Belgravia, who carried that estate by her marriage into the possession of the Grosvenors.