Windmill Street, W1T

Road in/near Tottenham Court Road, existing between the 1750s or before and now

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Windmill Street appears on the John Roque map from the 1750s.

Windmill Street lead to the original Middlesex County Hospital.

It perpetuates the memory of an early windmill, perhaps the feudal mill of the Manor of Tottenham Court, which stood where Charlotte Street now meets Windmill Street. The street was originally part of a Tudor path across the fields to the mill, now traceable as Store Street, the passage through London University’s Senate House and Guilford Street. The mill was still standing in about 1745, when Nollekens the sculptor was taken there on country walks as a boy, and had to pay the miller a halfpenny for permission to cross his grounds.


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NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE
Adam and Eve Inn The Adam and Eve was an inn on Oxford Street.
Fairyland During the period leading up to and during the First World War, 92 Tottenham Court Road was the location of a shooting range called Fairyland.
Scala Theatre Scala Theatre was a theatre in London, sited on Charlotte Street, off Tottenham Court Road. The first theatre on the site opened in 1772, and was demolished in 1969, after being destroyed by fire.
The Champion The Champion in Fitzrovia is a fine Grade II listed pub with Victorian-style fittings.
Tottenham Court Road Tottenham Court Road runs from St Giles’ Circus (the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road) north to Euston Road.

NEARBY STREETS
Adam and Eve Court, W1D The court was named for the nearby Adam and Eve tavern (Fitzrovia)
Adeline Place, WC1B Adeline Place was named after Adeline Marie Russell (Bloomsbury)
Alfred Mews, WC1E Alfred Mews is situated off Tottenham Court Road, running behind the gardens of North Crescent (Bloomsbury)
Alfred Place, WC1E Alfred Place was built in 1806 by a Marylebone stonemason called John Waddilove who named it after his son Alfred (Bloomsbury)
Andrew Borde Street, W1D Andrew Borde Street was situated opposite the end of Sutton Row and under the Centre Point development (St Giles)
Arthur Stanley House, W1T Arthur Stanley House is located on Tottenham Street (Fitzrovia)
Artist House, WC1A Artist House is sited on Little Russell Street (Holborn)
Bainbridge Street, WC2H Bainbridge Street takes its name from Henry Bainbridge, a local resident in the 17th century
Balfour House, W1W Balfour House is a block on Great Titchfield Street (Fitzrovia)
Bayley Street, WC1B Bayley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Bedford Avenue, WC1B Bedford Avenue is one of the streets of London in the WC1B postal area (Bloomsbury)
Bedford Court Mansions, WC1B Bedford Court Mansions is a block on Adeline Place (Bloomsbury)
Bedford Square, WC1B Bedford Square was designed as a unified architectural composition in 1775-6 by Thomas Leverton (Bloomsbury)
Belmont House, W1W Belmont House is a block on Candover Street (Fitzrovia)
Berners Mews, W1T Berners Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Berners Place, W1T Berners Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Tottenham Court Road)
Berners Street, W1D William Berners completed building in 1763 what is today Berners Street. (Fitzrovia)
Berners Street, W1D Berners Street runs from the junction of Oxford Street and Wardour Street to join up with Mortimer Street and the former Middlesex Hospital (Fitzrovia)
Binstead Street, W1D Binstead Street used to lead from Oxford Street to Oxford Market (Oxford Circus)
Bird Street, W1T Bird Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Bloomsbury House, WC1B Bloomsbury House is a block on Bedford Square (Bloomsbury)
Bloomsbury Street, WC1A Bloomsbury Street runs from Gower Street in the north to the junction of New Oxford Street and Shaftesbury Avenue in the south (Bloomsbury)
Bourlet Close, W1W Bourlet Close is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Bromley Place, W1T Bromley Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Brook House, WC1E Brook House is a block on Torrington Place (Bloomsbury)
BT Tower, W1W The BT Tower is a communications tower, previously known as the GPO Tower, the Post Office Tower and the Telecom Tower (Fitzrovia)
Bucknall Street, WC2H Bucknall Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Byng Place, WC1E Byng Place is a road in the WC1E postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Bywell Place, W1W Bywell Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Candover Street, W1W Candover Street is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Capper Street, WC1E Capper Street was named after the Capper farmer, tenant farmers on this land in the 17th and 18th centuries (Bloomsbury)
Carlisle Street, W1D Carlisle Street commemorates the former mansion of the Countess of Carlisle during the eighteenth century (Soho)
Castlewood House, WC1A Residential block (St Giles)
Centre Point, WC2H Centre Point is a controversial 1960s-built tower block
Century House, W1D Century House is a block on Oxford Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Charlotte Mews, W1T Charlotte Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Charlotte Place, W1T Charlotte Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Charlotte Street, W1T Charlotte Street was laid out in the mid 18th century on open fields (Fitzrovia)
Chenies Mews, WC1E Chenies Mews is a road in the WC1E postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Chenies Street, WC1E Chenies Street takes its name from the Buckinghamshire village where since 1556 members of the Russell family have been buried. (Bloomsbury)
Chitty Street, W1T Chitty Street runs between Charlotte Street and Whitfield Street (Fitzrovia)
Cleveland Street, W1W Cleveland Street maybe dates from before 1632 when its name was recorded as Wrastling Lane. (Fitzrovia)
Clipstone Mews, W1T Clipstone Mews is a road in the W1T postcode area (Fitzrovia)
Clipstone Street, W1W Clipstone Street is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Coach Road, W1T Coach Road is a road in the NW1 postcode area (Bloomsbury)
College Court, W1D College Court is a building on Berners Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Collingwood House, W1W Residential block (Fitzrovia)
Colville Place, W1T Colville Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Tottenham Court Road)
Congress House, WC1B Congress House can be found on Great Russell Street (Bloomsbury)
Conway Mews, W1T Conway Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Coptic Street, WC2H Coptic Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Darwin Walk, WC1E Darwin Walk is a road in the WC1E postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Denmark Place, WC2H Denmark Place was an alleyway one block north of Denmark Street (St Giles)
Denmark Street, WC2H Denmark Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Diadem Court, W1D Crown Court was renamed as Diadem Court in 1896 (Soho)
Dyott Street, WC1A Dyott Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (St Giles)
Earnshaw Street, WC2H Earnshaw Street was at first called Arthur Street (St Giles)
East Street, W1T East Street is one of the streets in the Twickenham postal district (Tottenham Court Road)
Eastcastle Street, W1D Eastcastle Street was originally called Castle Street East (Fitzrovia)
Eastcastle Street, W1T The portion of Eastcastle Street to the east of Wells Street originally belonged to the Berners Estate (Fitzrovia)
Elisa Court, W1T Elisa Court is a block on Chitty Street (Fitzrovia)
Endeavour House, WC2H Endeavour House is a block on Shaftesbury Avenue (St Giles)
Evelyn House, W1W Evelyn House is a block on New Cavendish Street (Fitzrovia)
Evelyn Yard, W1T Evelyn Yard is a road in the W1T postcode area (Tottenham Court Road)
Faber Building, WC1H Faber Building is a block on Russell Square (Russell Square)
Fairgate House, WC1A Fairgate House is a block on New Oxford Street (St Giles)
Falconberg Court, W1D Falconberg Court once ran off Falconberg Mews (Soho)
Falconberg Mews, W1D Falconberg Mews runs off of Sutton Row (Soho)
Fareham Street, W1D Fareham Street was renamed from Titchfield Street in 1951 (Soho)
First Floor, W1T First Floor is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Fitzroy Court, W1T Fitzroy Court is a road in the W1T postcode area (Fitzrovia)
Fitzroy Mews, W1T Fitzroy Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Fitzroy Square, W1T Fitzroy Square is one of the Georgian squares of London (Fitzrovia)
Fitzroy Street, W1T Henry Fitzroy was an illegitimate son of Charles II and his mistress, Barbara Villiers - hence the family name Fitzroy: ‘King’s son’. (Fitzrovia)
Flitcroft Street, WC2H Flitcroft Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
Foley Street, W1W Foley Street is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
George Yard, W1D In 1936, George Yard became Goslett Yard (St Giles)
Goodge Place, W1T Goodge Place is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Goodge Street, W1T Goodge Street was named after John Goodge a carpenter who along with his two nephews developed Crab Tree Fields to form Goodge Street in 1740 (Fitzrovia)
Gordon Mansions, WC1E Gordon Mansions is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Goslett Yard, W1D Goslett Yard was previously George Yard, after an inn at its end (St Giles)
Grape Street, WC2H Grape Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area
Great Castle Street, W1W Great Castle Street was one of the main streets of the Harley Estate (Fitzrovia)
Great Chapel Street, W1D Great Chapel Street is named after the former Huguenot chapel at the north end of Sheraton Street (Soho)
Great Titchfield Street, W1W Great Titchfield Street is one of the streets of London in the W1 postal area (Fitzrovia)
Gresse Street, W1T Gresse Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Tottenham Court Road)
Hanson Street, W1W Hanson Street is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Hanway Place, W1D Hanway Place is named for Major John Hanway (Tottenham Court Road)
Hanway Street, W1D Hanway Street was named after Major John Hanway (Tottenham Court Road)
Herrie’s Place, W1D Herrie’s Place was, in the eighteenth century, called Poland Yard (Soho)
Highlight House, W1W Highlight House is a block on Margaret Street (Fitzrovia)
Highwood House, W1W Highwood House can be found on New Cavendish Street (Fitzrovia)
Hills Place, W1D Hills Place leads south off Oxford Street (Oxford Circus)
Holcroft Court, W1W Holcroft Court is a block on Clipstone Street (Fitzrovia)
Holden House, W1 Holden House is sited on Oxford Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Hollen Street, W1D Hollen Street was laid out in 1715-16 by Allen Hollen (Soho)
Howland Street, W1T Howland Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Huntley Street, WC1E Huntley Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Isis House, WC1A Isis House is a building on New Oxford Street (St Giles)
Jubilee House, W1 Jubilee House is located on Oxford Street (Oxford Circus)
Julian House, W1T Julian House is a building on Windmill Street (Fitzrovia)
Kent House, W1D Kent House is a block created as showrooms in 1937 (Fitzrovia)
Keppel Street, WC1E Keppel Street links Store Street and Gower Street in the west to Malet Street in the east (Bloomsbury)
Khiara House, W1D Khiara House can be found on Poland Street (Soho)
King Regent’s House, W1T King Regent’s House is a building on Fitzroy Street (Fitzrovia)
Kirkman House, W1T Kirkman House is a building on Whitfield Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Leverton House, WC1B Leverton House is a block on Bedford Square (Bloomsbury)
Little Portland Street, W1W Little Portland Street is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Little Titchfield Street, W1W Little Titchfield Street is a road in the W1W postcode area (Fitzrovia)
Malet Street, WC1E Sir Edward Malet was married to Lady Ermyntrude Sackville Russell, daughter of Francis Russell who owned much of the surrounding area (Bloomsbury)
Maple Place, W1T Maple Place is a mews, previously called London Mews (Tottenham Court Road)
Maple Street, W1T Maple Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Mappin House, W1 Mappin House is a block on Winsley Street (Oxford Circus)
Margaret Court, W1W Margaret Court is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Margaret Street, W1W Margaret Street is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Market Court, W1D Market Court is a small alleyway north of Oxford Street (Oxford Circus)
Market Place, W1D Market Place is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Marylebone Passage, W1W Marylebone Passage is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Maxclif House, W1T Maxclif House is a block on Tottenham Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Met Building, W1T Met Building is a block on Percy Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Middlesex House, W1T Middlesex House is sited on Cleveland Street (Fitzrovia)
Minehead House, W1W Minehead House is a building on Hanson Street (Fitzrovia)
Minerva House, WC1E Minerva House is a block on North Crescent (Bloomsbury)
Montague Place, WC1E Montague Place was developed in the decade after 1800 (Russell Square)
Mortimer Market, WC1E Mortimer Market is a road in the W1T postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Mortimer Street, W1T Mortimer Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Mortimer Street, W1T A street within the W1W postcode (Fitzrovia)
Mortimer Street, W1W Mortimer Street is one of the streets of London in the W1 postal area (Fitzrovia)
Morwell Street, WC1B Morwell Street is a road in the WC1B postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Mottram House, W1T Mottram House is located on Whitfield Street (Tottenham Court Road)
Museum House, WC1A Museum House is a block on Museum Street (Holborn)
Nags Head Yard, W1D Nags Head Yard used to lay behind Marlborough Mews (Oxford Circus)
Nassau Street, W1T Nassau Street runs north from Mortimer Street (Fitzrovia)
Network Building, W1T Network Building is a block on Tottenham Court Road (Tottenham Court Road)
New Compton Street, WC2H New Compton Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
New Oxford Street, WC2H New Oxford Street is a road in the WC2H postcode area (Holborn)
Newlands House, W1T Newlands House is sited on Berners Street (Fitzrovia)
Newman House, W1T Newman House can be found on Newman Street (Fitzrovia)
Newman Passage, W1T Newman Passage is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Newman Street, W1T Newman Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Nicolas Cooper House, WC1E Nicolas Cooper House is a block on Chenies Street (Bloomsbury)
Noel Street, W1F Noel Street is named after the Duchess of Portland, nee Lady Elizabeth Noel (Soho)
North Crescent, WC1E North Crescent is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Ogle Street, W1W Ogle Street is one of the streets of London in the W1W postal area (Fitzrovia)
Oxford Circus Avenue, W1F Oxford Circus Avenue exists on a lot of London maps but doesn’t exist (Oxford Circus)
Oxford Market, W1D Oxford Market was the name of the streets around the market of the same name (Fitzrovia)
Oxford Street, W1F Oxford Street is the main shopping street of London (Soho)
Paramount House, W1F Paramount House can be found on Wardour Street (Soho)
Parnell House, WC1 Parnell House is a block on Streatham Street (Bloomsbury)
Parnell House, WC1A Parnell House is a block on Streatham Street (Bloomsbury)
Percy Street, W1T Francis and William Goodge issued building leases for land on Percy Street’s south side in 1764 and north side in 1766. (Tottenham Court Road)
Phillips House, W1T Phillips House is a block on Goodge Street (Fitzrovia)
Portland House, W1W Portland House is a block on Great Portland Street (Fitzrovia)
Princess House, W1D Residential block (Fitzrovia)
Putney House, W1 Putney House is a block on Great Titchfield Street (Fitzrovia)
Putney House, W1W Putney House is a block on Great Titchfield Street (Fitzrovia)
Queen’s Yard, W1T Queen’s Yard is a road in the W1T postcode area (Bloomsbury)
Rathbone Place, W1T Rathbone Place honours Captain Rathbone who was the builder of the road and properties thereon from 1718 onwards (Tottenham Court Road)
Rathbone Square, W1T Rathbone Square is a location in London (Tottenham Court Road)
Rathbone Street, W1T Rathbone Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Ridgmount Gardens, WC1E Ridgmount Gardens is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Ridgmount Street, WC1E Ridgmount Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Roberts Engineering Building, WC1E Roberts Engineering Building is sited on Torrington Place (Bloomsbury)
Ruskin House, WC1A Ruskin House is a block on Museum Street (Holborn)
Russell Square House, WC1B Residential block (Russell Square)
Russell Square, WC1B Russell Square was laid out from 1800 by James Burton following the demolition of Bedford House, which originally stood on the site surrounded by gardens and fields (Russell Square)
Salt Yard, W1T A street within the W1T postcode (Fitzrovia)
Scala Street, W1T Scala Street is named after the Scala theatre which formerly stood here (Goodge Street)
Shropshire House, WC1E Shropshire House is a block on Capper Street (Bloomsbury)
Soho Place, Soho Place lies within the postcode (Tottenham Court Road)
Soho Square, W1D In its early years, Soho Square was one of the most fashionable places to live in London (Soho)
Soho Street, W1D Soho Street leads north out of Soho Square (Soho)
Sounding Alley, WC2H Sounding Alley is a road in the E3 postcode area (St Giles)
St George’s House, W1T St George’s House is a block on Wells Street (Fitzrovia)
St George’s House, WC1A St George’s House is a block on Coptic Street (Holborn)
St Giles High Street, WC2H St Giles High Street is one of the streets of London in the WC2H postal area (St Giles)
St Giles Square, WC2H St Giles Square is part of a new, post-Crossrail, development (St Giles)
St Giles Square, WC2H St Giles Square is a modern piazza-style development
Stedham Place, WC2H Stedham Place is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Holborn)
Stephen Mews, W1T Stephen Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Stephen Street, W1T Stephen Street is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Tottenham Court Road)
Stewart House, WC1B Stewart House can be found on Russell Square (Russell Square)
Store Street, WC1E Store Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Streatham Street, WC1A Streatham Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area (Bloomsbury)
Sutton Row, W1D Sutton Row has existed since 1681 (Soho)
The White House, W1W The White House can be found on Mortimer Street (Fitzrovia)
Third Floor, WC1E Third Floor is one of the streets of London in the WC1E postal area (Bloomsbury)
Thornhaugh Street, WC1B Thornhaugh Street is a street in London (Russell Square)
Titchfield Street, W1D Titchfield Street became Fareham Street in 1951 (Soho)
Torrington Place, WC1E Torrington Place was developed by James Sim in partnership with his two sons (Bloomsbury)
Torrington Square, WC1H Torrington Square was originally laid out as part of the Bedford Estate development in 1821-25 (Bloomsbury)
Tottenham Court Road, W1T Tottenham Court Road is a major road running from the junction of Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, north to Euston Road - a distance of about three-quarters of a mile (Tottenham Court Road)
Tottenham Mews, W1T Tottenham Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Tottenham Street, W1T Tottenham Street is so-named as it is a turning out of Tottenham Court Road (Fitzrovia)
Turks Head Yard, W1D Turks Head Yard was once a courtyard north of Oxford Street (Oxford Circus)
Union Street, W1W The easternmost section of Riding House Street was previously known as Union Street (Fitzrovia)
United Kingdom House, W1D United Kingdom House is a block on Great Titchfield Street (Fitzrovia)
Waverley House, W1F Waverley House is a block on Noel Street (Soho)
Wells Mews, W1W Wells Mews is one of the streets of London in the W1T postal area (Fitzrovia)
Wells Street, W1D Wells Street - ’Welses Lane’ - is first recorded in 1692 (Fitzrovia)
West Central Street, WC2H West Central Street is one of the streets of London in the WC1A postal area
West End House, W1D West End House is a block on Hill’s Place (Oxford Circus)
West One House, W1T West One House is a block on Wells Street (Fitzrovia)
West One House, W1W West One House is a block on Bourlet Close (Fitzrovia)
Western House, W1F Western House is a block on Argyll Street (Oxford Circus)
Whitfield Street, W1T Whitfield Street runs from Warren Street in the north to Windmill Street in the south. (Fitzrovia)
Willoughby Street, WC1B Willoughby Street was formerly known as both Vine Street and Wooburn Street (Holborn)
Windmill Street, W1T Windmill Street appears on the John Roque map from the 1750s (Tottenham Court Road)
Winsley Street, W1D Winsley Street is a road leading north from Oxford Street to Eastcastle Street (Fitzrovia)
Woodford House, W1 Woodford House is a block on Great Titchfield Street (Fitzrovia)
Woolverstone House, W1T Woolverstone House is a block on Berners Street (Fitzrovia)
York House, W1T York House is sited on Berners Street (Fitzrovia)


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