Baker Street
Baker Street is a street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster. It is named after builder William Baker. The area was originally high class residential, but now is mainly occupied by commercial premises.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: street in the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster in London
- Also known as: “Baker Street, London”, “Baker Street, Marylebone”, and “Baker Street, Westminster”
Photo: Rept0n1x, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Madame Tussauds and Sherlock Holmes Museum.
Madame Tussauds
Photo: Ashley Rehnblom, CC BY 2.0.
Madame Tussauds is a wax museum founded in London in 1835 by the French wax sculptor Marie Tussaud. One of the early main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors, which appeared in advertising in 1843.
Sherlock Holmes Museum
Museum
Photo: Jordan 1972, Public domain.
The Sherlock Holmes Museum is a privately run museum in London, England, dedicated to the famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It is the world's first museum dedicated to the literary character Sherlock Holmes.
Baker Street tube station
Metro station
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Baker Street is a London Underground station at the junction of Baker Street and the Marylebone Road in the City of Westminster. It is one of the original stations of the Metropolitan Railway, the world's first underground railway, opened on 10 January 1863.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Marylebone and Lisson Grove.
Marylebone
Suburb
Photo: Mike Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Marylebone is an area in London, England, and is located in the City of Westminster. It is in Central London and part of the West End. Oxford Street forms its southern boundary.
Lisson Grove
Neighborhood
Photo: Phillip Perry, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lisson Grove is a street and district in the City of Westminster in the West End. The street neighbourhood contains a few important cultural landmarks, including Lisson Gallery, Alfies Antique Market, Red Bus Recording Studios, the former Christ Church, now the Greenhouse Centre, Stringers of London and the Seashell of Lisson Grove.
Fitzrovia
Suburb
Photo: Thegiantrodent, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fitzrovia is a district of central London, England, near the West End. Its eastern part is in the London Borough of Camden, and the western in the City of Westminster.
Baker Street
- Category: street
- Location: Westminster, Greater London, London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Baker Street” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيكر ستريت”
- Armenian: “Բեյքեր սթրիթ”
- Azerbaijani: “Beyker Strit”
- Azerbaijani: “Beyker-strit”
- Belarusian: “Бейкер-стрыт”
- Bengali: “বেকার স্ট্রিট”
- Catalan: “Baker Street”
- Chinese: “貝克街”
- Chinese: “贝克街”
- Czech: “Baker Street”
- Danish: “Baker Street”
- Dutch: “Baker Street”
- Esperanto: “Bakista Strato”
- Estonian: “Baker Street”
- Finnish: “Baker Street”
- French: “Baker Street”
- German: “Baker Street”
- Greek: “Οδός Μπέικερ”
- Hebrew: “רחוב בייקר”
- Irish: “Baker Street”
- Italian: “Baker Street”
- Japanese: “ベーカー・ストリート”
- Japanese: “ベーカー街”
- Japanese: “ベイカー・ストリート”
- Japanese: “ベイカー街”
- Karachay-Balkar: “Бейкер-стрит”
- Korean: “베이커 가”
- Korean: “베이커 스트리트”
- Korean: “베이커가”
- Latvian: “Beikerstrīta”
- Malay: “Baker Street”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baker Street (sted)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Baker Street”
- Norwegian: “Baker Street”
- Persian: “خیابان بیکر”
- Polish: “Baker Street”
- Portuguese: “Baker Street”
- Romanian: “Baker Street”
- Russian: “Baker Street”
- Russian: “Бейкер стрит”
- Russian: “Бейкер-стрит”
- Russian: “Бэйкер-стрит”
- Serbian: “Улица Бејкер”
- Slovak: “Baker Street”
- Slovenian: “Baker Street”
- Spanish: “Baker street”
- Spanish: “Baker Street”
- Swedish: “Baker Street”
- Turkish: “Baker Caddesi”
- Turkish: “Baker Sokağı”
- Turkish: “Baker Street”
- Ukrainian: “Бейкер-стрит”
- Ukrainian: “Бейкер-стріт”
- Urdu: “بیکر اسٹریٹ”
- Uzbek: “Beyker ko’chasi”
- Vietnamese: “Phố Baker”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bryanston and Dorset Square and Marylebone High Street.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dorset Square Hotel, Firmdale Hotels and Princess Grace Hospital.
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