The Real Baker Street Has a 221B Address Now — Because Sherlock Fans Forced the City of London to Create It.
2026/06/20
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The Real Baker Street Has a 221B Address Now — Because Sherlock Fans Forced the City of London to Create It.
For most of its history, Baker Street in London did not have a 221B. The numbering simply didn't go that high in the relevant section of the street. Arthur Conan Doyle invented the address, and it remained comfortably fictional.
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Then the fans arrived.
In the 1930s, letters addressed to Sherlock Holmes began arriving at the Abbey National building, which occupied the space where 221B would theoretically be. The company employed a secretary specifically to reply to the correspondence.
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