Harley Street
The Harley Street is a street in the City of Westminster, which is known for the large number of doctors since the second half of the 19th century, who settled on this street.
Since the 19th century the number of doctors, hospitals and medical facilities in Harley Street and in the immediate area has greatly increased. 1852 could be the well-known physician William Jenner in the street down. One of the first hospitals that opened there in 1853 which briefly led by Florence Nightingale establishment for gentlewomen was sick. In 1860 there were in the street 20 doctors, in 1900 there were 80 and in 1914 there were 200 in 1948, the year of the National Health Service, there were 1,500 doctors working in this street. At the beginning of the 21st century, there are more than 3,000 people who work in the medical field in the vicinity of Harley Street.
It is believed that doctors were originally attracted to the area in London because new here originated in the second half of the 19th century spacious building. The area is also not far away from major railway stations such as Paddington, Kings Cross, St Pancras and Euston.
The area through which the leading Harley Street, owned by the de Walden family and managed by the company de Walden Estate. The land goes back to the year 1715, when Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford began to develop this area. Through inheritance, the family de Walden finally came into the possession of the country. The Harley Street was also the residence of many famous personalities, including the Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone, the artist JMW Turner and Lionel Logue the speech therapist.
In the novel North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell the main character Margaret Hale lives temporarily in Harley Street.