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London Bridge with the Houses of Parliament behind, in shades of grey.

This page lists the streets and other public places in central London used in Wodehouse's tales. Some feature heavily, others serve only as a convenient addresses for companies and characters etc. Many are genuine locations and these are indicated; those not so indicated are probably invented.

A few Wodehouse connections also lurk within this list. See also the Maps page.

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Albany
Home to Sir Godfrey Tanner in Creatures of Impulse, Bill Bates in The Man Upstairs, Lord Tidmouth in Doctor Sally, Cedric Mulliner in The Story of Cedric, Freddie Rooke in Jill the Reckless and Pongo Twistleton in Uncle Fred Flits By. (There are others.)
Two real blocks of chambers (total 69) around a courtyard, built in 1802. NB: Strictly, it's 'Albany', not 'The Albany'.
Albemarle Street
A real street between Dover St and Bond St. Home to Widgery and Boon Investigators in The Smile That Wins.
(Royal) Albert Hall
A real concert hall in South Kensington, opened in 1871, famous today for the annual Promenade concerts. (Frequently mentioned.)
Aldwych
Site of J. Wendell Stickney's bank in Company for Henry. A real street in central London, also mentioned in The Swoop.
Alleyn Road
A real road in East Dulwich. Used for a false address in Right Ho, Jeeves.
Arlington Street
A real road in St. James's, next to the Ritz, used as the London home of the Earl of Droitwich in If I Were You.
Arundel(l) Street
See separate page
Barnes
A real area just south-west of the centre, next to the Thames. Mentioned in a few stories.
Battersea Park Road
A real, busy road in London. Used as home for Jerry Vail in Pigs Have Wings and the scene of Romance of an Ugly Policeman. Includes York Mansions. Battersea is on the south side of the Thames, opposite Chelsea.
Beak Street
Site of Barolini's Restaurant in Ukridge's Accident Syndicate. Said to contain a Registry Office in Spring Fever. A real street in Soho.
Beaumont Street
Site of the Brompton Road Registry Office in Bill the Conqueror (No. 11 but in the area known as Pimlico) and Full Moon. (Brompton Road is real but Beaumont St. is not on today's map.)
Bedford Row
A real street in the Holborn area, used for the offices of lawyers Scope, Ashby and Pemberton, in The Girl in Blue and Nichols, Erridge and Trubshaw in Bachelors Anonymous.
Bedford Street
A real street off the Strand, used as the site of B. B. Tucker, Gentleman's Hosier and Bespoke Shirt Maker, in Bingo and the Peke Crisis.
Beeston Street
See Hayling Court below.
Belgrave Square
Home of Lord and Lady Runnymede in The Goal-keeper and the Plutocrat, Wilbur Raymond in A Damsel in Distress and Lord Biddlecombe in Came the Dawn. A real square now containing several Embassies.
Berkeley Square
Home to the Earl of Blotsam (66a) in The Knightly Quest of Mervyn, Lady Punter in The Amazing Hat Mystery and the Princess von und zu Dwornitzchek in Summer Moonshine. (Mentioned in other stories.)
PG lived in Berkeley Square briefly before WWII. It is rumoured that a nightingale once sang there.
Berkeley Street
Includes Crichton Mansions, the home of Bertie Wooster. A real street between Piccadilly and Berkeley Square, and the next road west of Dover Street (see below).
Bermondsey
A real part of the East End of London with a reputation as a rough area. Mentioned in several stories.
Bethnal Green
Another real part of the East End, also mentioned in several stories.
Billingsgate Market
London's main fish market, where Psmith worked immediately prior to the events in Leave it to Psmith. A real market near London Bridge, it is easy to find - just follow your nose.
Bingleton
A rough area of east London in Reggie and the Greasy Bird. Fictitious, probably a fore-runner of Bottleton.
Bishopsgate
A real road in the City area, much changed. (The Prince and Betty)
Bloomsbury
A real part of central London, around the British Museum, once home of a Victorian literary set. Mentioned in several books.
Blue Street
Home to Isaac O'Brien, bookmaker in The Long Arm of Looney Coote. Not on today's map.
Bond Street
A real street noted for its shops; the name still carries a premium. Split into New Bond Street and Old Bond Street, a distinction often ignored in everyday use. (Frequently mentioned).
Bosher Street
Site of a Magistrates' Court in The Code of the Woosters and many others. Fictitious. It's been suggested that Bosher Street was Victorian slang for Bow Street Court. I cannot find any corroboration for that but as PG's major court for London, it's reasonable to suppose that Bosher Street owes more than a little to Bow Street, its real life equivalent in that respect.
Bottleton East
A fictional rough area next to the real Limehouse, mentioned in The Masked Troubadour, Service with a Smile, Life with Freddie, Uncle Dynamite and Cocktail Time and others. It contains a Palace of Varieties and the Green Goose.
Bott Street
Chelsea, home of Lancelot Mulliner in The Story of Webster and a veterinary surgeon in Cats Will be Cats. Not on the map.
Bow Street Police Court
A real court and police station near Covent Garden. (A Damsel in Distress)
Brixton
1. A real area of south London, used as the home of Sidney Price (in Belmont Park Road) in Not George Washington.
2. A real prison in the area. Mentioned in Do Butlers Burgle Banks?.
Brompton Road
Said to contain a Registry Office in Full Moon and an antiques shop in The Code of the Woosters. A real street in central London that partly separates Kensington from Belgravia that contains containing the Brompton Oratory, a large Roman Catholic church properly called the Church of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Both are mentioned in several books.
Brook Street
Home of Barribault's Hotel, used by Tipton Plimsoll in Full Moon, and Claridge's, used by Lady Constance Keeble in Summer Lightning. A real street in Mayfair.
Bruton Street
Home to Sir Mallaby Marlowe in The Girl on the Boat and Wilfred Slingsby in Bill the Conqueror. A real street running from Berkeley Square to Bond Street. Queen Elizabeth II was born here.
Budge Street
Site of Sally Painter's Chelsea studio in Uncle Dynamite and Cosmo Wisdom's lodgings in Cocktail Time. No trace on today's map.
Burlington Arcade
A real covered row of shops off Piccadilly, mentioned in A Damsel in Distress and others.
Buxton Crescent
Off the Cromwell Road, number 11 is a boarding house used by Lord Emsworth's gardener, Angus McAllister, when in London, as stated in Custody of the Pumpkin. Cromwell Road is real and is close to Kensington Gardens but Buxton Crescent is not on today's maps.
Cadogan Square
A real street in Knightsbridge. Home of Lord Bridgnorth in If I Were You.
Camberwell
Bingo Little attended a subscription dance there in The Inimitable Jeeves. A real area of London, close to the centre but south of the Thames.
Camden Town
A real and now fashionable part of north London. Home of Miss Elphinstone in Something Fishy.
Cavendish Square
A real square, mentioned in Ukridge Sees Her Through.
Charing Cross Road
A road running south from Oxford Street towards Trafalgar Square, once noted for its bookshops. (Sam the Sudden)
Charing Cross Station
A real main line train station serving southern England, used as a meeting place, including in Bingo and the Peke Crisis among others. There is also an Underground (Subway) station, which was re-named 'Embankment' in 1976. (Also mentioned.)
Charles Street
London home of Tom and Dahlia Travers at number 47. A real street in Mayfair.
Chelsea
Once a Bohemian area of London, it is just west of Belgravia (and home to a top soccer/football team). Mentioned several times.
Chelsea Square
Willoughby Scrope lived at number 31 in The Girl in Blue. A real square.
Church Place
A real road off Piccadilly, used by Ukridge to hide from a flag-girl in Buttercup Day.
Clapham Common
A real large, open green space in south-west London, used as the scene of outdoor speaking in Psmith in the City and an incident and home (Peabody Road) in No Wedding Bells for Him.
Clarges Street
Contains a domestic staff agency in Company for Henry. A real street at the south side of Mayfair, running off Piccadilly. It is also the site of Barribault's in Ice in the Bedroom.
Clement's Inn
A real small road off the Strand next to the Royal Court's of Justice. Psmith has his flat here in Psmith in the City.
Clerkenwell
A real part of London just to the north-east of the centre. Site of Misunderstood.
Cleveland Row
Real street opposite St. James's Palace, mentioned as the home of the fictional Duke of Devizes in Piccadilly Jim.
Cockspur Street
A real road leading off Trafalgar Square. Mentioned in Uneasy Money.
Colney Hatch
A real Lunatic Asylum at the north edge of London that opened in 1851 and, after several name changes, closed in 1993. It is now residential apartments. Frequently mentioned as a place that characters should be in or end up in etc.
Cork Street
A real street next to Bond Street, mentioned as the home of Archibald Mulliner in Archibald and the Masses and of tailors (Gusset and Mainprice) in Came the Dawn and (unnamed) in Ukridge's Accident Syndicate.
Covent Garden.
1. Used to be a flower, fruit and vegetable wholesale market until it outgrew its site (and moved to New Covent Garden south of the Thames). Noted for the early opening of the public houses - to serve the market workers who effectively worked nights. The site is now small shops, coffee houses etc. (Frequently mentioned.)
2. The Opera House next to the old market is also referred to as simply 'Covent Garden'. (Also mentioned in several books.)
Coventry Street
Site of the onion soup bar that features in Uncle Fred in the Springtime. A real street off Leicester Square.
Curzon Street
Home of the Junior Ganymede Club. A real street in Mayfair.
Daubeny Street
In Pimlico, near Victoria Station. Contains the home (No 9) of Nelly Bryant in Jill the Reckless but no trace on the map.
Davies Street
A real street in the exclusive Mayfair district of London. Lady Vera Mace has an apartment there in Big Money.
Denvers Street, Strand
Contains the offices of Mainprice, Mainprice & Boole, Solicitors, in Something Fresh. Not on the map but in the right area.
Dover Street
A real London street, off the north side of Piccadilly. Home to the fictional Drones Club and Messrs. Thorpe and Briscoe, coal sellers.
Drury Lane
A real street in the West End, contains the Theatre Royal. Home to Gladys in Lord Emsworth and the Girl Friend.
Dulwich
1. Mike Jackson briefly took a room here at Acacia Road, in Psmith in the City.
2. Mrs Wilberforce and her niece Rhoda Platt live at Wistaria Lodge, Kitchener Rd in East Dulwich, in Indian Summer of an Uncle.
Wodehouse attended Dulwich College here from 1894 - 1900 and later lived in Croxted Road. Dulwich appears in many books and stories, under the thin disguise of Valley Fields, as admitted by PG himself.
Duke Street
In the St. James's part of London, home to Galahad Threepwood of the Blandings series. (Dudley Finch took rooms there in Dudley is Back to Normal.) A real street.
Dunraven Street
See Norfolk Street
Eaton Square
1. Home to Lady Wickham (mother of Bobbie Wickham), when in London, in The Episode of the Dog McKintosh, to Marcia, Bobbie Wickham's aunt, in The Passing of Ambrose, to Lord Dreever (6A) in A Gentleman of Leisure and others.
2. Also contains St. Peter's Church, mentioned in several stories.
3. Contains the church of St. Jude the Resilient where the Bishop of Stortford preached a sermon in Cocktail Time.
Two real streets in the area known as Belgravia, forming a sort of square. St. Peter's is there, but not St. Jude's.
Ebury Street
Lodgings of James Corcoran (the narrator of most of Ukridge's adventures). Also home to Mr Preston in Something to Worry About. A real road near Victoria station.
Embankment
The usual name given to the Victoria Embankment, a real road running along the north side of the Thames between Westminster and Blackfriars Bridges, not the actual banks of the river, which have no name. Mentioned several times. (There has also been an Underground station with this name since 1976.)
Ennismore Gardens
Home of Muriel Branksome's aunt in The Voice from the Past. A real road in the Brompton area.
Enniston Gardens
Temporary home of Ivor Llewellyn in Bachelors Anonymous. A real street in the Knightsbridge area.
Fetter Lane
A real street in what was London's press district. Mentioned in A Man of Means.
Fleet Street
Contains the premises of the Mammoth Publishing Co in Tilbury St. (several books) and Groom's coffee shop in Not George Washington. Fleet Street is real and was once the home of many national newspapers. Most have now moved elsewhere but the British national press is still often referred to as Fleet Street (and the tabloid/yellow press element as 'the street of shame').
Foreign Office
Where George Tupper, a friend of Ukridge, works and mentioned in several Ukridge stories. A real building, it now occupies the whole block (of which it was once just one quarter) having merged with the Colonial, Commonwealth and India offices. It is the equivalent of the American State Department.
Fulham Road
A real road between South Kensington and Chelsea. Mentioned in The Man who Gave up Smoking and Creatures of Impulse.
Garbridge Mews
Fulham, home of Gladys Bingley in The Story of Webster. (Not on my map.)
Glasshouse Street
A real, short road at the edge of Soho, mentioned in Not George Washington as having an old coffee shop.
Gossiter Street
Site of the Black Footman pub and a ratting contest as recounted by Galahad Threepwood in Pigs have Wings. Neither exist today.
Greek Street
Said to contain a Registry Office in Spring Fever. A real street in Soho.
Green Street
1. Mayfair. A real road off Norfolk Street. Jas Waterbury's niece was in service there in Freddie, Oofy and the Beef Trust.
2. Off Leicester Square. Site of a Lyons tea-shop in Sam the Sudden. Not on today's map.
Grosvenor Square
Real life home of the US Embassy in London, PG uses it to house Lady Dora Garland in Full Moon and Mr and Mrs Bingley Crocker (Drexdale House) in Piccadilly Jim. It is also the scene of a wedding reception in The Smile That Wins.
Guildford Street
Real, a little north of the British Museum. Home to Bessie March in A Man of Means and Henry Rice in Bill the Bloodhound.
Halkett Place
Where James Cloyster and his bride are to live, somewhere in London, in Not George Washington.
Hampstead
A real area of north-west London, including a large open area, Hampstead Heath. The former is mentioned in The Swoop, the latter in Money in the Bank.
Harley Street
A real road in London, famous as a centre for the expensive end of the medical profession. Sir Roderick Glossop is at number 6b. E. Jimpson Murgatroyd also has consulting rooms somewhere in this street. Frequently mentioned.
Hayling Court
Off Beeston St in SW London, contains the offices of the Argus Enquiry Agency run by Percy Pilbeam. (Neither street exists today but Hayling Island is in Sussex just south of Emsworth where Wodehouse once lived.)
Henrietta Street
A real road off Covent Garden, mentioned in Love Among the Chickens.
Hill Street
There are two streets of this name in central London. It is probably the one in Mayfair that houses Mr and Mrs Slingsby (at No. 3) in The Spot of Art.
Holborn Bars
An eye-catching Victorian building in High Holborn, formerly the home of the Prudential Insurance Company. Used by PG as home for Wragge's Detective Agency.
Holland Park
Mentioned as an artists' colony in Leave it to Psmith. It is a real area to the west of Kensington.
Hyde Park
A large green space in the middle of London, bounded by Bayswater Road to the north, Park Lane to the east and Kensington Gardens to the west. Now the site of public concerts in summer. Speaker's Corner, in the north-east corner of the park by Marble Arch, is a small area noted for regular soap-box oratory. Rotten Row is a soft track within the park for horse riding. Often mentioned.
Jermyn Street
A real street immediately south of Piccadilly in the area known as St. James's. Home of Bertie Wooster's Uncle George (Lord Yaxley), the scene of a party in A Damsel in Distress and of Turkish Baths in Bill the Conqueror. The baths (the Hammams) were also real.
John Street.
Home of Willoughby Braddock in Sam the Sudden. A real street in Mayfair but now called Chesterfield Hill.
Kennington
A real area of central London, just south of the river. (The Debut of Battling Billson)
Kensal Green
A real area just north-west of the centre. The large cemetery, one of several laid out as 'overflow' from central London churches, has over 200,000 occupants and is mentioned in several stories.
Kensington Gardens
Real public gardens to the east of Kensington Palace and west of Hyde Park and Park Lane, separated from Hyde Park by a lake, the Serpentine. They contain a restaurant, open air gallery and a statue to Peter Pan. At the south-east end is the magnificent Albert Memorial, now restored to its full glory. (Frequently mentioned.)
Kensington Lane
Kensington, home of Mrs Cresswell in Not George Washington. (No trace on today's map.)
Kew
An area to the south of the Thames on the west side of London, famous for Kew Gardens, a major collection of plants from around the world. Also home to Lady Wilhelmina Mulliner in The Code of the Mulliners.
King's Road
A real, main road in the Chelsea area of London. Mentioned in The Girl in Blue and others.
King Street
Freddie Threepwood takes a service flat there in Lord Emsworth Acts for the Best. There are three real roads with this name in central London but Wodehouse lived at Flat 43 in number 11, King Street, St. James's, for a while in the 1920s; that's probably the one meant.
Knightsbridge
A real part of central London, just south of Hyde Park. Today it is very expensive. Home of the Lotus Rooms, a place where functions are held, in Ukridge Sees her Through.
Laburnum Road
Notting Hill. Number 18 is home to Sally Fitch in Bachelors Anonymous. Not on today's map.
Ladbroke Grove
A real area of London just west of the centre, near to Notting Hill. (The Swoop)
Lambeth
A real area of London across the Thames from Westminster and quite a contrast. Site of John Hatton's boys club at the Carnation Hall in Not George Washington.
Lancaster Gate
Home to Sir Alfred Venner MP when in London as stated in The Pothunters. A real road to the north of Kensington Gardens.
Leadenhall Market
Once a meat and fish market, it was rebuilt in 1881. It is now a retail centre with places to eat in the City of London. Featured in Bill the Conqueror.
Leicester Square
A real square in the West End, frequently mentioned.
Lewisham
A real area in south-east London. Has a Social Progress League in A Damsel in Distress attended by Lady Caroline.
Limehouse
An area of the East End of London which once had a reputation as a dangerous area, full of crooks and, in Victorian days, opium dens and (allegedly) the white slave trade. It was what in US cities would be called the tenderloin. Frequently mentioned.
Lincoln's Inn Fields
A real large square between the Strand and Holborn, and next to Lincoln's Inn proper. A logical place to find an old firm of solicitors such as Nichols, Nichols, Nichols and Nichols in Uneasy Money and Shoesmith (x4) in Money in the Bank.
Little Gooch Street
Off Shaftesbury Avenue near the (fictitious) Regal Theatre. Contains shops and two Italian restaurants according to Uneasy Money and mentioned as having a grocer's in A Damsel in Distress. (Not found on recent maps.)
Lombard Street
A street in the financial district of London where Wodehouse worked in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank for two years (1900-02) before taking up writing full time. Also mentioned in A Gentleman of Leisure and Sam the Sudden.
Lupus Street
A real road in Pimlico. Site of a coffee stall in Sam the Sudden.
Maiden Lane
A real street close to Covent Garden and the Strand, in the middle of the theatre district. (The Swoop)
Manchester Square
Home to Sir George Pyke in Bill the Conqueror. A real square just outside the most fashionable areas.
Manresa Road
A real road in Chelsea, off the King's Road. No. 93A is used in Not George Washington.
Markham Square
Teddy Weeks occupies the rooms previously used by Ukridge, in Ukridge's Accident Syndicate. A real road off the King's Road, Wodehouse lived there in 1900. He describes it as a dismal backwater.
Marlborough Street
Contains the Magistrates Court where Horace Davenport paid his fine in Uncle Fred in the Springtime. (Refers to the court in Great Marlborough Street just south of Oxford Street, which is now a hotel.)
Marlow Square
Home of Mrs Drassilis in The Little Nugget. Not on today's maps.
Mayfair
A real, fashionable and very expensive area in the centre, bounded by Park Lane, Oxford Street, Regent Street and Piccadilly. Frequently mentioned.
Meek Street
Contains a Registry Office in Spring Fever. Not on today's maps.
Milton Street
Said to contain a Registry Office in Service with a Smile. Not on today's maps.
Mitching Hill
A real suburb of south London, used in Uncle Fred Flits By.
Mott Street
A cul-de-sac off the real Brompton Road. Home of Price's barber shop in If I Were You.
Murphy's Mews
Supposedly in the seedier part of Chelsea. Home to Sir Jaklyn Warner in Bachelors Anonymous.
New Oxford Street
Home of Paul Snyder's Detective Agency in Death at the Excelsior. A real street.
Norfolk Street
Contains the home of Lady Julia Fish. P.G. lived in Norfolk Street, Park Lane on and off in the mid '20s to mid '30s. It is now called Dunraven Street and a blue plaque (unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother) marks the Wodehouse home.
Northumberland Avenue
Home to the 'United Rovers Club', it is a real street in London, running off Trafalgar Square. Wodehouse stayed at The Constitutional Club there.
Notting Hill
A real part of London to the west of Kensington, now famous for its annual three-day carnival. Home of Sally Fitch in Bachelor's Anonymous and mentioned in Reggie and the Greasy Bird.
Oakley Street
Mentioned as a place where married Bohemians live, in Not George Washington. A real road between the King's Road and the Albert Bridge.
Old Bailey
The common name for the Central Criminal Court, a Crown Court serving London and also many major cases that are better held away from the area where the crimes were (allegedly) committed. It is in the street also named Old Bailey.
Onslow Square
Belinda Farringdon lived in Plunkett Mews (not on the map) off Onslow Sq. in Cocktail Time.
Wodehouse lived here in 1922.
Oval
The grounds of the Surrey County Cricket team, in Kennington, south inner London. Still in use today, including for top international 'test' matches. Mentioned in several stories.
Ovington Square
No 22 was home to Jill Mariner in Jill the Reckless. A road of (5-storey white stucco terraced houses), just south off the Brompton Road. PG knew the Bowes-Lyon family who lived there. (Some editions have 'Ovingdon', a typographical error.)
Oyington Square
Home to Desmond Fendall in The Pro. Another typo for Ovington Square?
Paddington Station
A real mainline railway station serving the mid and south-western counties. Serves for arrivals, meetings and departures.
Panton Street
A real street off Leicester Square, containing the not-so-real Angry Cheese night club mentioned in Sam the Sudden and Full Moon and the equally suspect Purple Grease-Spot in Dudley is Back to Normal.
Park Lane
1. Horace Davenport has rooms in Bloxham Mansions (No 52) in Uncle Fred in the Springtime.
2. Cuthbert Wickham has a flat in Bloxham Mansions in Dudley is Back to Normal as does Stanwood Cobbold in Spring Fever.
3. Sally Fitch has a flat in Fountain Court in Bachelors Anonymous.
A wide and busy road along one side of Hyde Park. The other side of the road contains some very expensive property, including the Carlton and Dorchester Hotels.
Park Street
A real street in Mayfair. Home (36A) to Aurelia Cammarleigh and her aunt in Archibald and the Masses.
Penslow Square
Mayfair. Home of Mrs E. C. Biffen, mother of C. E. Biffen in The Rummy Affair of Old Biffy. Not on today's map.
Pentonville
A real prison just north of the centre. Frequently mentioned.
Piccadilly
A real street in the West End of London, running west from Piccadilly Circus and passing through fashionable areas. Frequently mentioned.
Pimlico
A real, less fashionable area between the desirable Chelsea and Westminster areas. (Sam the Sudden)
Pinner
A real suburb of NW London, home of Elaine Dawn in Something Fishy. Pinner has an annual fair that has been held for hundreds of years, since it was a village; if it fails to hold the fair one year, it loses the right to do so again.
Plunkett Mews
Off Onslow Square in South Kensington. Home of Belinda Farringdon in Cocktail Time. Plunkett Mews is not on today's map.
Pont Street
Home to Mrs Agatha Gregson, Bertie Wooster's aunt. A real street in Belgravia.
Pounceby Gardens
Home of Lord Bittlesham in The Inimitable Jeeves.
Prince of Wales Road
Battersea. Contains the flat of Bill West in 9 Marmont Mansions, with a balcony overlooking the park, in Bill the Conqueror. Joe and Leila Bishop lived in Prince of Wales Mansions before parting (Ice in the Bedroom). The road is real.
Pudding Lane
T. Paterson Frisby has offices at number 6 in Big Money. Famous as the starting point of the Great Fire of London in 1666 as commemorated by the nearby Monument.
Putney
A real area of London on the Thames, to the west of the centre. Putney Bridge is the starting point for the annual Oxford and Cambridge boat race. (Frozen Assets)
Queen's Club
A real sports club in Palliser Road, West Kensington, London, now known for hosting a men's lawn tennis tournament on grass two weeks before Wimbledon. Mentioned in several stories.
Queen's Hall
A concert hall in Langham Place from 1893 to 1941 when it was destroyed (in the Blitz). Mentioned in The Clicking of Cuthbert and Hot Water.
Regent Street
Used as the home of Laurette et Cie. in The Adventures of Sally among other references. A real street in London, famous for its shops and Christmas lights, rivaled only by those of Oxford Street.
Ridgeway's Inn
Contains the offices of Marlowe, Thorpe, Prescott and Appleby in The Girl on the Boat. Not on today's map but the area is appropriate.
Rupert Street
1. Site of a rifle range in The Girl on the Boat and a baker's in The Adventures of Sally.
2. Mentioned in Not George Washington, including as the site of Maison Suisse (a real restaurant of the day). Rupert Court is supposed to join it but is not on today's map.
3. Site of the Senior Bloodstain Club in The Smile That Wins.
4. Site of the Pig and Whistle pub in Full Moon.
A real street crossing Shaftesbury Avenue.
Rutland Gate
Contains the home of Col. and Lady Wedge. A real street in Kensington, just off Knightsbridge.
St. George's Church, Hanover Square.
Mentioned as a place to get married (at St. George's) in The Luck of the Stiffhams and other stories. A real church in London, for society weddings, although not in Hanover Sq. itself but close by.
St. George's Square
Pimlico, containing St. Saviour's, where Gregory Parsloe and Maudie Montrose were to be married in Pigs Have Wings. A real square and church.
St. James's Street
Home of Brown's Club in Uneasy Money and the Devonshire Club. A real road running from Piccadilly to St. James's Palace.
St. John's Wood
1. Home to the Bingo Littles (at Meadowsweet Hall, Magnolia Road, which is not on today's map).
2. Home to Roscoe Bunyan in Something Fishy.
A real area just to the north-west of central London that includes Lord's Cricket Ground and Abbey Road Recording Studios.
St. Mary Axe
Contain the London offices of Paradene Pulp and Paper in Bill the Conqueror and of Boots and Brewer, imports and exports, in Cocktail Time. A real street in the City.
St. Pancras
A real main line railway station serving Scotland and the north of England. Recently the new terminal for the channel tunnel service. (Summer Moonshine)
Saville Row
A real street in central London famous for its bespoke men's tailors. (Service with a Smile and The Gem Collector)
Scantlebury Square
Kensington, home of Hermione Rossiter in The Man who gave up Smoking. Not on today's maps.
Serpentine
A real man-made lake between Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park. Frequently mentioned.
Seven Dials
A small area that was at one time noted for its undesirable element, still not entirely respectable. Young Thomas Gregson bought a cosh there in The Mating Season and it is mentioned in other stories.
Shaftesbury Avenue
See separate page.
Sloane Square
Home to Roderick Pyke in Bill the Conqueror and to a bookshop, Flannery and Martin, in The Girl in Blue. A real square on the edge of Belgravia, it has since given its name to the 'Sloane Rangers' - fashionable and conventional upper-class young persons, usually women.
South Audley Street
Home to Bruce Carlyle in The Adventures of Sally and Osbert Mulliner in The Ordeal of Osbert Mulliner. A real street running off Grosvenor Square.
Speaker's Corner
See Hyde Park above.
Strand
A real street in London running roughly east from Trafalgar Square. Once the centre of London night-life, it is frequently mentioned.
Swiss Cottage
A real part of London to the north of St. John's Wood, named after a building there. (Summer Lightning)
Threadneedle Street
Contains the Bank of England in the City of London. (Big Money)
Throgmorton Street
Real address of the London Stock Exchange. (A Prefect's Uncle and The Heel of Achilles)
Thurloe Square
Home of Lady Lakenheath in Ukridge Turns a Nasty Corner and Love Among the Chickens and Claude and Mrs Winnington-Bates in Sam the Sudden. A real square in South Kensington.
Tooting
A real residential area of west London. (The Romance of a Bulb-squeezer)
Tottenham Court Road
A real long road running north from Oxford Street to the Euston Road, now known for retail consumer electrical goods. (Something Fresh)
Trafalgar Square
A real and famous square in the centre (literally) of London, featuring fountains, statues and Nelson's Column. A place for celebrations and protests. (Bingo Bans the Bomb and others.)
Upper Brook Street
Contains the home of Lady Alcester in Company for Gertrude and The Go-getter and of Lady Millicent Shipton-Bellinger (18a) in The Smile That Wins. A real street between Park Lane and Grosvenor Square.
Vernon Place
Home of Malim in Not George Washington, a real but very short stretch of road in Holborn.
Victoria Station
A main line railway station serving the south of England, including some suburban lines.
Vigo Street
A real street off Regent Street. Home of Bodmin's the hatters in The Amazing Hat Mystery.
Vine Street
A real street with a police station, mentioned in Summer Lightning and Money in the Bank and others. It is between Regent's Street and Piccadilly near to Piccadilly Circus.
Vinton Street
Site of a Police court in Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit. Possibly Vine Street in disguise.
Walham Green
A real area of London to the south-west of Chelsea and east of Fulham. (Spring Fever)
Wallingford Street
West Kensington. Two parallel rows of red brick, semi-detached villas, all exactly alike. No. 18 is the home of Mike Jackson and his wife Phyllis in Leave it to Psmith. Not on the map.
Walpole Street
James Cloyster resides at No 23 in Not George Washington. Wodehouse lived at number 22 around 1905.
Waterloo Station
A main line railway station serving the south of England, including some suburban lines.
Wellington Street
A real street near Covent Garden, mentioned in Not George Washington.
Whitechapel
A real, rough area in the East End of London, infamous for Jack the Ripper. It had been patrolled by PC Plimmer in (The Romance of an Ugly Policeman) and is mentioned in other stories.
Whitehall Place
Home of the National Liberal Club in The Adventures of Sally and the Savage Club in A Gentleman of Leisure. A real road.
Wilbrahim Place
A real street off Sloane Square, home to Claude and Polly Pott (No 6) in Uncle Fred in the Springtime.
Wilton Street
A real street in Belgravia, but not the registry office that is supposed to be there in Service with a Smile.
Wimbledon Common
A suburb of south west London. See separate page.
Wormwood Scrubs
A real open area in the Hammersmith and Fulham area and the prison of the same name. The frequent mentions in the stories are all to the prison.
York Street
Where James Cloyster first stayed in London. Also the home of the Barrel Club (but not in Covent Garden) as stated in Not George Washington.

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