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3–6 Guilford Place

row of buildings in London

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ27082138 ↗
Source-derived summary

Guilford Place is a Grade II listed Georgian terrace of four houses in Guilford Place, London WC1, built in about 1791 to 1793 by J. Tomes and W. Harrison.

Editorial summary

“3–6 Guilford Place” enters the record as row of buildings in London. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Guilford, Place and buildings can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1791, 1793—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Guilford, Place and buildings.
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Why this record matters

“3–6 Guilford Place” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Guilford, Place and buildings provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q27082138. Authority coordinates are 51.523, -0.119. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1791 and 1793.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “3–6 Guilford Place” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.