Shepherd Market
Shepherd Market is a small business-lined precinct featuring two small squares, one with a northern recess in Mayfair, in the West End of London, built up between 1735 and 1746 by Edward Shepherd on the open ground then used for the annual fair from which Mayfair derives; it does so with the east end of Shepherd Street which is also broad-pavemented. It is between Piccadilly and Curzon Street and has a village-like atmosphere. It was associated with upmarket prostitutes from its building up until at least the 1980s. In the 1920s, it hosted leading writers and artists such as Anthony Powell, Michael Arlen and Sophie Fedorovitch. Jeffrey Archer met Monica Coghlan here in the 1980s.
Shepherd Market (City of Westminster) (local authority since 1965) | |
| Type | Garden square |
|---|---|
| Length | 110 ft (34 m) larger, eastern square, which flanks a café/restaurant/hairdresser/boutique/small business lined, non-parking cul-de-sac/deliveries road. |
| Width | 445 feet (136 m) |
| Area | Mayfair |
| Location | London |
| Postal code | W1 |
| Nearest metro station | Green Park tube station |
| Construction | |
| Construction start | 1735 |
| Completion | 1736 |
| Other | |
| Status | west end of the north side: large building: Grade I listed |
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