Georgian, Regency, and England Today


Diana shared some Regency English sites on the Regency eGroups list, then sent me some additional sites to add. Thanks, Dian!

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Hanover Square
St. James Area
Piccadilly Area
Hampstead
Greenwich
Other London Sites
Other Outskirts of London
Old Churches From 1700's

Brighton
Bath
Non-Regency Recommended Sites
Scotland
England Today: Sites to Visit
WebCams
Tours
Links

Regency Reader's Site Map
Hanover Square
  1. St. George's Church (where many fashionable weddings were held)
  2. No. 24 (remaining Georgian building)

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St. James Area
  1. No. 27 St. James Place:   Spencer House (also connected to Princess Diana)
  2. No. 15 St. James Square:   Lichfield House
  3. Nos. 4, 5, 10, 13, 16, and 20 St. James Square:   Regency Townhouses
  4. Park: Statue of William III
  5. Gentlemen's Clubs
  6. Shops

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Piccadilly Area
  1. No.74 Piccadilly Street:   Cambridge House (now the Naval and Military Club)
  2. Piccadilly Street:   Devonshire House
  3. Piccadilly Street:   Hatchard's Bookstore
  4. Piccadilly Street:   Burlington House (now Royal Academy of Arts)
  5. Off Piccadilly Street:   Burlington Arcade (1819)
  6. The Albany (once Melbourne House, converted into apartments in 1802, in the 20th C. a resident for many years was Georgette Heyer, entrance hard to find off Piccadilly, building itself sits in back, parallel to Sackville Street)
  7. Piccadilly Street:   Berkeley Square

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Hampstead
  1. New End Square:   Burgh House
  2. 20 Hampstead Grove:   Fenton House
  3. Church Row
  4. Downshire Hill
  5. Vale of Health
  6. Keats Grove:   Keats House
  7. Hampstead Lane:   Kenwood House

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Greenwich
  1. Croons Hill:   Regency Homes
  2. 12 Croons Hill Street:   Fan Museum
  3. Queens House
    Designed by Inigo Jones (who brought Palladian architecture to England) for Anne of Denmark in 1616, wife of James I, completed in 1635 for Henrietta Maria wife of Charles I.
  4. Royal Naval College

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Other London Sites
  1. Grosvenor Square:   Nos. 8, 9, 12, and 38
  2. No. 44 Berkeley Square:   Original buildings on west side
  3. Curzon Street:   Townhouses (also along some other streets around there)
  4. Somerset House:   Victoria Embankment, near Waterloo Bridge (This has just been opened up to the public, or will be as of May 26th, as a new art museum.)
  5. Bloomsbury Square:   Nos. 18 - 27 (near British Museum)
  6. Portman Square:   No. 20 (Robert Adam)
  7. The Admiralty and its Screen (Robert Adam, not the Arch)
  8. Great Cumberland Place
  9. 8 John Adam Street:   Royal Society of Arts (Robert Adam)
  10. Royal Opera Arcade (between Pall Mall and Charles II Street)
  11. Portland Place:   Nos. 27-47
  12. Manchester Square:   Hereford House (contains the Wallace Collection of Art)
  13. Fitzroy Square:   South and East sides
  14. Bedford Square
  15. Apsley House:   Southeast corner of Hyde Park, near the Wellington Arch (built in 1778, then home of the Duke of Wellington, contains memoribilia)
  16. Catherine Street:   Theatre Royal (Drury Lane)
  17. Covent Garden:   Royal Opera House
  18. George Inn:   South bank near London Bridge Railroad Station (Posting Inn)
  19. 77 Borough High Street
  20. The Regents Canal
  21. Kingsland Road:   Geffrye Museum (Interiors in different periods)
  22. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields:   Sir John Soanes Museum
  23. 145 Fleet Street:   Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Wine Office Court (well-preserved pub)

    24. NOTE: There are some great older pubs, especially along the Thames and they are the best places to eat lunch
  24. THROUGHOUT ENGLAND: Stately homes, mansions, and palaces
    (Check dates to make sure they were not built after Regency time. They give you the feel of the homes our Regency characters lived in.)

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Other Outskirts of London
  1. Richmond Road, Twickenham:   Marble Hill House
  2. Octagon, Side road beside Marble Hill House:   Orleans House
  3. London Road, Brentford:   Syon House
  4. Burlington Lane, Chiswick:   Chiswick House
  5. Osterley:   Osterley Park House (Mansion of banker Childe, grandfather of Lady Sally Jersey)

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Old Churches From 1700's
  1. St. George's, Bloomsbury
  2. St Mary Woolmoth
  3. Christ Church, Spitalfields
  4. St. Anne's, Limehouse
  5. St. Alfege
  6. St. Mary-le-Strand
  7. St. Martin-in-the-Field
  8. St. Pancras

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Brighton
  1. Pavilion
  2. Marlborough House
  3. Marine Parade
  4. Cricketer Pub in the Lanes (supposed to be the oldest)
  5. Wykeham Terrace (only surviving complete example of regency gothic architecture in the world; found at the south end of Dyke Road
  6. Palmeira Square (Regency square built around a medieval burial mound; adjacent to Adelaide Crescent
  7. Regency Square (The most exclusive regency residences in Brighton. Three houses combined into one sold recently as a full unit for GBP3)
  8. Typical Regency House in Brighton

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Bath
  1. Abbey
  2. Assembly Rooms (with costume museum)
  3. Holburne Museum
  4. No. 4 Sydney Place (Jane Austen's home)
  5. Number 1 Royal Crescent
  6. Pulteney Bridge
  7. Pump Room (adjacent to the Roman Baths)
  8. Circus
  9. Theatre Royal
  10. Places to Stay:

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Scotland
  1. Gretna Green
  2. Flodigarry Hotel
  3. Skye (where the Bonnie Prince hid)
  4. Inverness Area: Culloden
  5. Harlech Castle

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England Today: Sites to Visit
  1. Tower of London (was there with the menagerie in Regency)
  2. Windsor Castle
  3. Museum of the City of London (can see some of the old London Wall)

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WebCams
  1. Cornwall Cam
  2. Perranporth, Cornwall
  3. Virtual London

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Tours
  1. Visit Britain
  2. Novel Explorations (Patty Suchy)

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Links
  1. Cheltenham Spa - Centre for the Cotswolds
  2. Georgian Index (Heather Wagoner)

  3. Smugglers' Britain

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