221B Baker Street

We met next day as he had arranged, and inspected the rooms at No. 221B, Baker Street, of which he had spoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of comfortable bed-rooms and a single large airy sitting-room, cheerfully furnished, and illuminated by two broad windows.(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet", 1887)

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221B Baker Street is the fictional London residence of the detective Sherlock Holmes, created by author Arthur Conan Doyle. The address could indicate an upstairs apartment (hence the B) of a residential house on what was originally a Georgian terrace. The B may, however, refer to the whole house. The street is considerably less narrow than is portrayed in some film versions of Holmes' adventures and is a substantial and busy north-south thoroughfare, which is at least as congested now as it would have been in Holmes' day. The site of the house - had it ever existed (see below) - would have been at the north end of Baker Street near Regents Park and Baker Street tube station.

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London - Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle - Georgian - Baker Street - Regents Park - Baker Street tube station

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