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Savoy Street


125, Strand. (WC2) Takes its name from Peter, Earl of Savoy,. who built a large house here in the year 1245, and gave it to the fraternity of Mountjoy, from whom Queen Eleanor, wife of Henry III, purchased it for her son, the Duke of Lancaster. (Tallis's London Street Views)

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