Talk:Wardour Street

The phantom Sir Archibald Wardour
He arrived in the article with this diff by a very dodgy ISP. I can find no traces of him on the web, except in versions of this sentence, no doubt nearly all from WP. However, one of these, from an utterly non-specialist but academic source, seems to predate the mention here. I'm very dubious about him, certainly as an "architect", as I doubt that buildings in Wardour St between the 1680s & 1720 needed or received much attention from an architect, and very few London streets are renamed after an architect who has added some buildings. If he existed, it seems more likely he was the developer, but it is odd there are no other references to him at all on the web, except as the architect of "several buildings" on this street. Johnbod (talk) 12:25, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Good catch. Given that the IP made an edit of a silly name to another article and "THIS SCHOOL IS RUBBISH", three minutes later, I think it's safe to cut this. --McGeddon (talk) 13:23, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * The Encyclopedia of London says Edward Wardour owned land there, which makes more sense. Johnbod (talk) 20:02, 23 March 2014 (UTC)

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source for 1585 map description?
"There has been a thoroughfare on the site of Wardour Street on maps and plans since they were first printed, the earliest being Elizabethan. In 1585, to settle a legal dispute, a plan of what is now the West End was prepared. The dispute was about a field roughly where Broadwick Street is today. The plan was very accurate and clearly gives the name Colmanhedge Lane to this major route across the fields from what is described as "The Waye from Vxbridge to London" (Oxford Street) to what is now Cockspur Street. The old plan shows that this lane follows the modern road almost exactly, including bends at Brewer Street and Old Compton Street."

Is there a source for this claim (and maybe even a digital version of that map?) Trublu (talk) 14:13, 4 September 2022 (UTC)