Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for MAY FAIR

MAY FAIR, two chapelries and a sub-district in St. George-Hanover-square parish and district, Middlesex. The chapelries are in a fashionable part of Westminster, and are noticed in the article GEORGE (ST.) Hanoversquare.-The sub district is bounded by a line from No. 197 Regent-street northward, along that street, to its junction with Conduit-street; westward thence, along Conduit-street, across New Bond-street, and along Bruton-street, to Berkeley-square; north-westward thence to the E end of the S side of Mount-street; westward thence, along Mount-street, to the road in Hyde-park from Cumberland-gate to Hyde-park-corner; southward thence, along that road, to Piccadilly; eastward thence, along Piccadilly, to a point on a line with the fronts of the houses in the Green-park; southward thence, along that line, to a point on a line with the fronts of the houses on the N side of Park-place; eastward thence to St. James'-street, and along that street to Piccadilly, and along Piccadilly to the back of the W side of Burlingtonarcade; thence to Burlington-gardens, and along the S side of these, to New Bond-street; and thence, along the parochial boundary to No. 197 Regent-street. Acres, 136. Pop. in 1851,12,980; in 1861,12,885. Houses, 1,668.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "two chapelries and a sub-district"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Middlesex AncC
Place: Mayfair

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