{{Short description|Street in London}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} thumb|Chepstow Place (centre vertically) on an 1872 Ordnance Survey map.
'''Chepstow Place''' is a street in London that runs from the junction of Westbourne Grove and Pembridge Villas in the north to Pembridge Square in the south. It is crossed by Dawson Place and joined on its eastern side by Rede Place. The east side is in the City of Westminster and the west side in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.
==History== The street was one of those in the area developed in the mid-nineteenth century by William Henry Jenkins, originally of Herefordshire, and William Kinnaird Jenkins, who leased land on the Ladbroke Estate from 1844.<ref name=EncylLon>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA469 "Ladbroke Estate"] in {{cite book|author1=Christopher Hibbert|author1-link=Christopher Hibbert|author2=Ben Weinreb|author2-link=Ben Weinreb|author3=John Keay|author4=Julia Keay|title=The London Encyclopaedia|year=2008|edition=3rd|location=London|publisher=Pan Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-73878-2|page=469}}</ref><ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol37/pp258-275 Chepstow Villas and Pembridge Square area.] British History Online. Retrieved 11 June 2018.</ref> The origins of the Jenkins is reflected in the many Hereford and Welsh names used in local streets such as Chepstow and the nearby Pembridge, Ledbury and Denbigh.<ref name=EncylLon2>[https://books.google.com/books?id=wN_H-__MBpYC&pg=PA632 "Pembridge Villas"] in Hibbert et al., p. 632.</ref>
==Buildings== * The street was once the location of Bradleys furriers at number one. The site is now Baynards.<ref>[http://www.bgml.co.uk/history/ History.] Baynards. Retrieved 11 June 2018.</ref> * 16 Chepstow Place, was the last address of the writer Julian Maclaren-Ross (1912–64) and the address of Bartholomew Malthus, a character in Robert Louis Stevenson's story ''The Suicide Club''.<ref>[https://idler.co.uk/article/the-last-london/ The Last London.] Iain Sinclair, ''The Idler''. Retrieved 11 June 2018.</ref> * The Italian restaurant Assaggi is located at number 39.<ref>[https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/food-drink/article/giles-coren-reviews-assaggi-p5p9cvnxs Giles Coren reviews Assaggi.] Gils Coren, ''The Times'', 17 June 2017. Retrieved 11 June 2018. {{subscription required}}</ref><ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/reviews/assaggi-39-chepstow-place-london-w2-2154655.html Assaggi.] Robert Chalmers, ''The Independent'', 12 December 2010.</ref> * Number 55 was the location for the famous image of the titular characters sitting on its steps for 'Withnail and I'. * Numbers 61-69 are grade II listed with Historic England.<ref name=NHL>{{National Heritage List for England|num=1066262|desc=61-69, Chepstow Place W2|access-date=10 June 2018}}</ref> * Numbers 21 to 23 Pembridge Square, on the corner with Chepstow Place, are all grade II listed.
<gallery> File:Baynards, 1 Chepstow Place, Notting Hill, London W2.jpg|Baynards at 1 Chepstow Place, formerly Bradleys. File:Chepstow Mansions.jpg|Chepstow Mansions on the corner with Pembridge Villas (right) </gallery>
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Category:Streets in the City of Westminster Category:Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
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