This is a list of the etymology of street names in the London district of Marylebone. The following utilises the generally accepted boundaries of Marylebone viz. Marylebone Road to the north, Great Portland Street to the east, Marble Arch and Oxford Street to the south and Edgware Road to the west.
Brunswick Mews – after the Brunswick Chapel, formerly located near here on Upper Berkeley Street[25]
Bryanston Mews East, Bryanston Mews West, Bryanston Place, Bryanston Square and Bryanston Street – after Bryanston in Dorset, where local landowners the dukes of Portland owned property[26][27]
Cato Street – named by landowner John Harcourt, in allusion to the Roman Cato; it was changed for a period to Horace Street (after the Roman poet) owing to the notoriety of the Cato Street conspiracy, but the original name was restored[34][35]
Crawford Mews, Crawford Place and Crawford Street – after Tarrant Crawford in Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18][19]
Cross Keys Close – after the former Cross Keys tavern here, named for local 18th century street developer Philip Keys[48]
D
David Mews – after David Porter, builder of the nearby Montagu Square[49]
Dean's Mews – thought to be for a Catholic college formerly located here[50]
Devonshire Close, Devonshire Mews North, Devonshire Mews South, Devonshire Mews West, Devonshire Place, Devonshire Place Mews, Devonshire Row Mews and Devonshire Street – after local landowner the Cavendish family, who had a branch which became the dukes of Devonshire[51][37]
De Walden Street – after Baroness Howard de Walden, local landowner[51][52]
Dorset Street – after Dorset, where the local Portman family owned much land[18][53]
Duchess Mews and Duchess Street – by association with the dukes and duchesses of Portland, local landowners, possibly specifically Dorothy Duchess of Portland[54][55]
Duke's Mews and Duke Street – it is unknown precisely which duke, if any, this street commemorates[56]
Dunstable Mews – unknown; prior to 1935 it was Upper Wimpole Mews[57]
Durweston Street – after Durweston, Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18][19]
E
Easleys Mews – after Abraham Easley, 18th century landowner[58][59]
Homer Row and Homer Street – named by local landowner John Harcourt, either in honour of the ancient Greek poet Homer or his neighbour Edward Homer, possibly both[34][93]
J
Jacob's Well Mews – after Jacob Hinde, husband of Anne Thayer, who inherited this land from her father Thomas Thayer[90][91]
Manchester Mews, Manchester Square and Manchester Street – after Manchester House (now Hertford House) which stood here, home to the dukes of Manchester, built 1776[104][105]
Marylebone Circus, Marylebone High Street, Marylebone Lane, Marylebone Mews, Marylebone Road, Marylebone Street and Old Marylebone Road – from a church dedicated to St Mary, represented now by St Marylebone Parish Church (1817); the original church was built on the bank of a small stream or "bourne", called the Tybourne or Tyburn.[110] This stream rose further north in what is now Swiss Cottage, eventually running along what is now Marylebone Lane, which preserves its curve within the grid pattern. The church and the surrounding area later became known as St Mary at the Bourne which, over time, became shortened to its present form, Marylebone.[111][112]
Montagu Mews North, Montagu Mews South, Montague Mews West, Montagu Place, Montagu Square, Montagu Street and Upper Montagu Street – after Montagu House which formerly stood near here and was home to prominent 18th century figure Elizabeth Montagu[115][49]
Moxon Street – after the former Moxon apartment block on this street; prior to 1936 it was ‘Paradise Street’, after an old burial ground near here – it was changed to avoid confusion with other streets of this name[117][118]
N
Nottingham Place and Nottingham Street – after Nottinghamshire, where local landowners the dukes of Portland owned property[15][119]
Nutford Place – after Nutford in Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18][19]
Portman Close, Portman Mews South, Portman Square and Portman Street – after the Portman family who owned this estate since William Portman acquired it in the 16th century; he was originally from Orchard Portman, Somerset[130][131][19]
Porter Street – after David Porter, builder of the nearby Montagu Square[49]
Q
Quebec Mews, New Quebec Street and Old Quebec Street – after the former Quebec Chapel on this site, named after the Battle of Quebec, built 1787 demolished in 1912[132][120]
Queen Anne Mews and Queen Anne Street – after Queen Anne; it was originally meant to lead to a square called Queen Anne Square, however this was never completed[133][134]
Riding House Street – unknown, presumably for a local riding school; it was formerly Riding House Lane[137][138]
Robert Adam Street – after Robert Adam, 18th century architect; originally it was just Adams Street, after 18th century developer Samuel Adams[139][138]
Romney Mews
S
St Christopher's Place – Octavia Hill, social reformer, cleared the slums of this area and named it in honour of St Christopher; formerly it was Barrett's Court, after Thomas Barret, local 18th century landowner[140][141]
Stratford Place – after Edward Stratford, who owned a house nearby and built this street in the 1770s[151][62]
Stourcliffe Street
T
Tarrant Place – probably after Tarrant Crawford in Dorset, where the local Portman family owned land[18]
Thayer Street – after Anne Thayer, who inherited this land from her father Thomas Thayer; the street was built in the 1770s by her husband Jacob Hinde[152][91]
Thornton Place – after Sophia Thornton, mother of Ronald Leslie-Melville, 11th Earl of Leven; the earl married Emma Selina Portman, whose brother Gerald Berkeley Portman, 7th Viscount Portman named this street in her honour[153][19]
Transept Street – after a former chapel on this site, opened 1772, closed in the 1850s,[38]or possibly after the former cross shape created by this street crossing Chapel Street[154]
V
Vere Street – named by the Harley family, earls of Oxford in honour of the De Vere family, who had held the earldom from 1155 until 1703 when the 20th earl died without issue[155][156]
Virgil Place – named by landowner John Harcourt, in allusion to the Roman poet Virgil[34][157]
W
Walmer Place and Walmer Stree
Watson's Mews – after John Watson, local 18th century leaseholder[158][84]