Burlington Arcade, SW1Y
Carlton House Terrace
Burlington Arcade is a covered shopping arcade, 179 metres in length, that runs from Piccadilly to Burlington Gardens.

It was built by architect Samuel Ware and commissioned by George Cavendish, 1st Earl of Burlington. His older brother, William Cavendish was 5th Duke of Devonshire and he had inherited the adjacent Burlington House.

Passers by were were throwing oyster shells over the wall of the house and the Arcade was built in place of this pathway.

Burlington Arcade was seen as a place "for the sale of jewellery and fancy articles of fashionable demand, for the gratification of the public" where the Earl’s wife could shop amongst other genteel ladies away from the dirty crime-ridden streets of London.

Burlington Arcade opened on 20 March 1819.

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