London’s Alleys: Circus Mews, W1

This is a tiny alley a few minutes to the south of Marylebone station that’s small enough to be a blink and you’ll miss it sort of passage.This part of London was still largely fields until just a couple of hundred years ago. The mews and area around started being developed by the Portman family in the late 1700s, and Horwood’s map of 1799 shows the northern side of the mews built with houses and back gardens, but the rest of the area to the south was still empty.
R Horwood Map