VicLondon-StJohns Wood
St. John's Wood, the West End
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This little community started as part of Marylebone and is a place of comfortable cottages and smallish homes. The land was owned by the Eyre family, and they still hold sizable amounts of the real estate, upon which residents rent their homes. In the last few decades, St. John Wood has become a fashionable address for actors and actresses, artists and writers. At least one of the mistresses of the Prince of Wales lives here.
St. Johns Church is here and runs an orphanage of the same name. This orphanage is the recipient of many a contribution from the wealthy and connected (for reasons one can guess at). Professional middle class men, often secretaries and assistants to the aristocrats living in Kensington or Marylebone, take up residence here, since major roads like Edgeware and underground access can sweep them to their employers’ neighbourhoods or to Westminster in a matter of minutes. It is also home to women whose wealthy patrons keep them in style.
Both crime and police presence are low. Traf c is light on the cobblestoned streets, and other than the trains that come from north to Marylebone and Paddington Stations, the neighbourhood is almost pastoral. The Lords Cricket Grounds are here next to Regents Park, and the matches bring a large turn-out, as the elds are next to an underground stop. The streets are mildly hilly, but become more so in the north, where St. Johns Wood heads up to Hampstead Heath. Here roads cease to be reliably paved.
