London’s Alleys: Durweston Mews, W1

This is a small back of flats courtyard mews that can be found just around the corner from Baker Street.The mews lies within the Portman Estate, a historic area that was once fields acquired by the Portman family in the mid 16th-century, and later developed in the 18th-century as London expanded.
The block that surrounds the mews shows up as a block of houses with back gardens in 1799, with the unnamed mews running behind the gardens. It shows up in the Greenwood map of 1828 with a name, but unf