With Regent's Park as its back garden, the West End at its feet this area could hardly be more central or more varied. Yet it's only began to be popular for the home-hunter as many original homes were appropriated for shops or offices and it's through-routes are busy. Marylebone village is downright fashionable once more, nearly 300 years after it was engulfed in London's burgeouning suburbia with Marylebone High Street now filled with smart shops and restaurants. Homes here range from the 18th century to the present day, from tiny studio apartments through to mews cottages to grand family mansions and flats, flats, flats. Marylebone has always been synonymous with medical excellence for it is here that the cream of the British medical profession is gathered crammed onto Harley Street and surrounding streets.