10. PARK LANE AND MAYFAIR.
STATIONS: Dover Street and Doom Street, Piccadilly Tube; Bond Street and Marble Arch, Central London Tube. OMNIBUSES in Piccadilly; in Oxford St.; in Park Lane, Nos. 2, 16, 30, 36, 73, 74, etc.
Sydney Smith once asserted that the parallelogram between Oxford St., Piccadilly, Regent St., and Hyde Park 'enclosed more intelligence and ability, to say nothing of wealth and beauty, than the world had ever collected into such a space before.' The region thus defined and eulogized practically coincides with the district known as MAYFAIR, though Bond St., instead of Regent St., may now be regarded as its east limit. Mayfair contains few points of interest apart from its character and history as a centre of wealth and fashion. It derives its name from a fair held annually in May from a very early period down to the reign of George III., in the region of the present Curzon St. and Chesterfield House.
