The area is best known for Lord's Cricket Ground, home of Marylebone Cricket Club and Middlesex CCC, and is a regular international test cricket venue. It also includes Abbey Road Studios, well known through its association with the Beatles.
Origin
The area was once part of the Forest of Middlesex, an area with extensive woodland, though it was not the predominant land use.
The area's name originates, in the Manor of Lileston, one of the two manors (the other the Manor of Tyburn) served by the Parish of Marylebone.
The Manor was taken from the Knights Templar on their suppression in 1312 and passed to the Order of Knights of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem whose English headquarter were at Clerkenwell Priory.[3]
The name of the knights was applied to a former wood within the area of the Manor, which in turn gave its name to St John's Farm, the farmhouse of which is now occupied by St John's Wood Barracks.[4]
The Priory allocated the estate to agricultural tenants as a source of produce and income.[5] The estate remained Crown property until 21 March 1675 (1676) when Charles II granted the St John's Wood estate to Charles Henry Wotton.[6] On 22 March 1732 (1733) City merchant Henry Samuel Eyre (1676-1754) acquired the majority of the estate, around 500 acres, from Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. The St John's Wood estate came to be known as the Eyre estate in the 19th century after it was developed by the Eyre brothers. The estate still exists, much reduced geographically.
A masterplan for the development of St John's Wood was prepared in 1794 but development did not start until 1804 when Henry Samuel Eyre II (1770–1851) and Walpole Eyre (1773–1856) held their first auction.[7] St John's Wood developed from the early 19th century onwards. One of the first developers was James Burton.[8]
Built environment
St John's Wood was among the first London suburbs with lower-density villa housing and frequent avenues but fewer communal garden squares. Most of the villas have since been subdivided and replaced by small apartment blocks or terraces.[9] This pattern of development has made it one of the most expensive areas of London.[citation needed]
Lord's Cricket Ground, home of Middlesex County Cricket Club and Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), is an international test cricket ground known as the Home of Cricket[10] on account of its role as the original headquarters of cricket.
Abbey Road Studios are located on Abbey Road, where The Beatles recorded, notably the Abbey Road album, the cover of which features the band crossing the road.
St. John's Wood Church Grounds contains the only nature reserve in the City of Westminster. Much of the neighbourhood is covered by a conservation area, a small part of which extends into neighbouring Camden.[12]
Wellington Hospital is the largest independent hospital in the United Kingdom. The Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth is also nearby.
Avenue Road, which is known for its mega mansions,[13] was the street with the UK's most expensive home sales in 2020.[14][13] In early 2021, prices for a property on the street averaged over £30.5 million.[14]
Former
St John's Wood Barracks was the headquarters for The King's Troop, Royal Horse Artillery until 2012, when the regiment moved to Woolwich.[15] Ananda Krishnan's Usaha Tegas conglomerate plans to develop the site.
Allitsen Road drill hall was formerly the headquarters of the 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).
The St John's Wood Art School and Anglo-French Art Centre were in St John's Wood.
The Star (now a gastropub) was a pub for approximately two centuries.
Education
For education in St John's Wood, see List of schools in the City of Westminster.
Independent
The American School in London
Arnold House School
Abercorn School
Saint Christina's Primary School
St John's Wood Pre-Preparatory School
Academy Trust and Federation
Harris Academy St John's Wood
George Eliot Primary School
State
Robinsfield Infant School
Barrow Hill Junior School
Places of worship
Christian
St John's Wood Church (Church of England)
St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace (Church of England)
Abbey Road Baptist Church (Baptists Together)
The Church of Our Lady (Roman Catholic)
Jewish
St John's Wood United Synagogue (United Synagogue)
The Liberal Jewish Synagogue (Liberal Judaism)
The New London Synagogue (Orthodox/Masorti)
Saatchi Shul (Orthodox)
Transport and locales
The main London Underground station is St John's Wood, which is on the Jubilee line. Maida Vale, Warwick Avenue and Kilburn Park are nearby on the Bakerloo line. The nearest London Overground station is South Hampstead. The 13, 46, 113 and N113, 139, 187, 189 and 274 bus routes transit St John's Wood.[16]
Henry Barnett (banker and politician) was the original owner of a mansion at 100 Hamilton Terrace that Robbie Williams temporarily rented before the debut of his 2019 Christmas album song, "Idlewild", which mentions St John's Wood.[18][19]
Charles Bradlaugh (National Secular Society founder) lived at 20 Circus Road, now the site of the St John's Wood Library.
Sir John Major (former prime minister) lived in St John's Wood, was on the Marylebone Cricket Club committee and attended matches at Lord's frequently.[24][25][26]
Stella Margetson (novelist and author) published St John’s Wood – an Abode of Love and the Arts and was the archivist for the St John's Wood Society.
Mark Ronson (DJ, songwriter, record producer and record executive), Samantha Ronson (DJ, singer and songwriter), and Charlotte Ronson (fashion designer) lived in St John's Wood as children, where their parents' home was a celebrity hangout.[31]
Sachin Tendulkar (cricketer) has a home in St John's Wood and captained Middlesex County Cricket Club's squad in its victory in the 2014 Lord's Bicentenary Celebration match.[32][33][34][35]
James Tissot (French painter and illustrator) lived with and painted his muse, Kathleen Newton, at his home at 44 Grove End Road, subsequently sold to Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
In popular culture
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The Housemartins' 1986 video for their pop song hit "Happy Hour" was recorded at The Star pub on St John's Wood Terrace.
Arctic Monkeys' 2007 video for "Teddy Picker" was recorded in St John's Wood, including at RAK Studios and The Star.
Literature
In Wilkie Collins's 1859 sensation novel The Woman in White, Count and Countess Fosco live at No. 5 Forest Road, a fictional address in St. John's Wood.
In the first instalment of John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga, The Man of Property (1906), Young Jolyon lives with his second wife and family on Wistaria Avenue, a fictional address in St John's Wood.
In P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster short stories and novels, written from the early 1920s onward, Bingo and Rosie live in St John's Wood.
The protagonist of J. G. Ballard's 2003 novel Millennium People is a psychologist who lives in St John's Wood, which he abandons to join a middle-class rebellion.
St John's Wood is the setting for Howard Jacobson's 2004 book The Making of Henry and is the planned location for the Museum of Anglo-Jewish Culture in his 2010 Booker Prize winning novel The Finkler Question.
Film and television
The short-lived 1990s sitcom Babes in the Wood was set in St John's Wood.
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