Map is of 1851, Upper Stanhope Street is left of screen almost at the bottom, Beaumont Street is right of screen and higher.

Upper Stanhope Street is now the continuation of Stanhope Street (which runs from Sefton Street (Dock Road) to St James Place where it becomes Upper Stanhope Street). Upper Stanhope Street runs to Princes Road where it finishes. It does not continue on the far side of Prices Road, as I have seen published, that is incorrect.

Stanhope Street was of early construction and is found at least as far back as I have examined, which is the 1823 Gore, when the entries show that it was largely a street of merchant houses. At a later date the portion on the far side of St James Place became Upper Stanhope Street. In 1851 (on the Ordnance Survey map for that year)  Upper Stanhope Street clearly finishes at Princes Road. There is no continuation on the other side and in fact the land on the far side of Princes Road was undeveloped, open pasture at this time.  Beaumont Street  has already been built up around the church of St. Clement's. However the portion of Beaumont Street contained within the settlement of 'Wondsor' was, for a time christened Upper Stanhope Street.

With developments after 1851 other streets eventually came to fill the gaps between Upper Stanhope Street and Beaumont Street. By the 1905 map the two streets are linked. These new streets do not align exactly however and date from a different period.  The eventual construction of Selborne Street between Princes Road and Beaumont Street may have suggested a continuation - but in fact two totally different streets, built at different times, have been aligned along the same axis which is approximately parallel to that of the very old Parliament Street / Upper Parliament Streets which form the toxteth boundary close by.  Upper Stanhope Street finishes at Princes Road.

The modern line of the street has again been broken by new housing and a plague of speed-bumps, all designed to avoid the long straight roads beloved of speeding card and joy-riders. I doubt that William Patrick Hitler, (nephew of his more famous relative Adolf) who was born at 102 Upper Stanhope Street on March 12th 1911 would recognise it today.
 

St James church, the start of Up.Stan. St.

Looking uphill from the church

 The site of the Weslyan church