Walton Street, London

Walton Street is a street within central London's Chelsea district, bordering Knightsbridge. It runs south-west to north-east from Draycott Avenue to Walton Place, parallel to Brompton Road to the north.

Walton Street, London SW3 in 2007

It is known for its boutiques and restaurants.^[1]

On 18 November 1975, the Walton's Restaurant bombing took place, when an Irish Republican Army (IRA) unit nicknamed the Balcombe Street Gang threw a bomb into Walton's Restaurant without warning, killing two people and injuring almost two dozen.^[2]

Notable residents

• Jahangir Hajiyev and Zamira Hajiyeva, Azerbaijani banker and fraudster, and his wife^[3]
• Edwin La Dell (1914–1970), artist^{[citation needed]}
• Berthold Wolpe (1905–1989), printer, at No. 102^[4]