Harley St.

We were pleased to sponsor the “Cardiology” section in the Harley Street Directory for the year 2007.

Harley Street has always been an attractive address, and is one of the most famous streets in London.

Harley Street enjoys a long-standing reputation as a centre of private medical excellence and the district around Harley Street is more often referred to as Medical London because it has several private hospitals within the vicinity and the largest concentration of medical proficiency in the world. All the latest technology and cutting edge medical expertise has been moved into the area, and not surprisingly Harley Street is a highly desirable location from which to practice.

Harley Street is one of the most famous streets in London, enjoying a world-wide reputation as a centre of private medical excellence. There are some 1,500 medical practitioners in and around the Harley Street area, and an extensive choice of specialists, clinics, and private hospitals providing services from cancer treatment to cosmetic surgery. In an area less than one half of a square mile in extent, over 3,000 people are employed in a private health sector that has become admired throughout the world.

(Source: Harley Street Clinical Directory)

Edward Harley inherited Harley Street from his wife, Henrietta Cavendish Hollis, and developed the grid of streets around Harley Street between 1715 and 1720. Today, Harley Street is owned by the de Walden family and the Howard de Walden Estate has been managing almost all of the 92 acres of real estate from Marylebone High Street, Portland Place and from Wigmore Street to Marylebone Road for the past 300 years. The Estate was responsible for the redevelopment of many of the houses in 1900, which followed strict guidelines to maintain the original Georgian style architecture.

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