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The Estate's development dates from 1715 when speculative planning of Cavendish Square and the streets around it began. The Marylebone manor and estate had been recently acquired by the Harley family, earls of Oxford, through Henrietta Holles who married Edward Harley in 1713. Both Edward's father and uncle were influential poiliticians during Queen Anne's reign and it seems that his uncle Edward was behind the appointmenet of a steward and surveyor to begin marking out building plots and negotiating leases on Henrietta's Marylebone estate. In 1719 the surveyor John Prince published a plan of the estate with named roads and building plots which is still recognisable today. Thus began a building program extending north from Tyburn Road, renamed Oxford Street, as far as Regents Park and Marylebone Road on the north and taking in the old village of Marylebone on the West and and the newly built Cleveland Street on the east.