London’s Alleys: Midford Place, W1

This small slip of a side passage off busy Tottenham Court Road is one of the few surviving passages from when this area was first built.The alley appeared as a short passage lined with houses in the late 1700s, when the area was still being turned from fields into homes.
R Horwood map 1799
The area was almost as quickly redeveloped, with many of the small homes being demolished and replaced with larger warehouses and shops.
OS Map 1893
Goad’s insurance maps from 1889 shows Midford Place s