Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
South Audley Street ends at Grosvenor Square, the second largest square in London. It
dates from 1725, although the houses around it have been extensively rebuilt, and it has
always been highly fashionable and exclusive.
Turn right to reach Grosvenor Street. In
Pride and Prejudice
Mr and Mrs Hurst have a
house here and Jane Bennett, hoping in vain for a visit from Mr Bingley, calls there on his
sister Caroline, only to be fobbed off with the excuse that he was well, but much engaged
with Mr Darcy and hardly ever at home.
Cross the square by cutting diagonally across the gardens in the centre to North Audley
Street. Follow it to turn into Green Street, opposite St Mark's Church.
Green Street crosses Park Street. On the corner was Park Street Chapel where Doctor
James Stanier Clarke, Jane's acquaintance from Carlton House, preached on Christmas Day
1815.
In
Sense and Sensibility
Lucy Steele spitefully tells Elinor that she is betrothed and
Elinor protests that she cannot mean the Edward Ferrars that she knows. Lucy retorts, 'Ed-
ward Ferrars, the eldest son of Mrs. Ferrars, of Park Street, and brother of your sister-in-
law, Mrs. John Dashwood, is the person I mean; you must allow that I am not likely to be
deceived as to the name of the man on who all my happiness depends.'
Turn right to reach Oxford Street and the end of this walk.
