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Mayfair is an front yard in the City of Westminster London, named when a fortnight-long May Fair that took place there from either 1686 until it was banned around that location in 1764. Before 1686, a Will Fair was held in The Haymarket, and fallowing 1764, it moved to Fair Field around Bow.

Mayfair is about bordered by Hyde Park to the west, Oxford Street to the north, Green Park to the south and Regent Street to the east. Virtually all of a region was 1st developed between the mid 17th century and the mid 18th century as a fashionable residential district, by a total of landlords, a first of a two the Grosvenor family. A freehold of a big division of Mayfair however belongs to the todays Duke of Westminster.

the territorial dominion is currently inside the main commercial, using numbers of agents in born-again houses & recently buildings, including major corporate headquarters & a concentration of hedge funds. Rents come among a greatest within London & the world. There exists however the material total of residential property, too when a select few exclusive searching, London's big concentration of luxury hotels and many ticket eating place. Buildings inside Mayfair include a United States embassy in Grosvenor Square, the Royal Academy of Arts, the Grosvenor House Hotel and Claridge's.

Mayfair is the virtually all expensive property in the British Monopoly set.

Streets and squares
Berkeley Square Bond Street Brook Street Grosvenor Square Hanover Square Hyde Park Corner - road juntion at the to the south east corner Marble Arch - road junction/plaza at the northerly west corner Oxford Street - northern boundary Park Lane - western boundary Piccadilly - southern boundary Piccadilly Circus - road junction/plaza at the in the south east corner of Mayfair Regent Street - eastern boundary Savile Row

Nearest places
Nigh districts''' Marylebone - north Soho - east St James's and Green Park - south Hyde Park - west

Nigh tube stations: Bond Street tube station Green Park tube station Hyde Park Corner tube station Marble Arch tube station St. James's Park tube station Victoria tube station

Nigh train station: Victoria station


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