Now fashionable, Seymour Place was listed in the 1800s as ‘a great pest-hole of vice in every shape.’.
The northernmost section of Seymour Place began life as Stingo Lane. This was a narrow thoroughfare leading from Marylebone Road to Crawford Street. The small streets leading off either side were described by Marylebone historian F H Hallam as "a great pest-hole of vice in every shape.".
The area was cleared in 1872, and Stingo Lane renamed Seymour Place as it was a continuation of the existing Seymour Place. By 1875 a police court had been built on part of the site.
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