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Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. [1] A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel opened in 1847.
From 1949, the Circle line was identified on tube maps as a separate line replacing the Metropolitan line service. [10] The sub-surface station has twice been damaged by explosions. On 30 October 1883, a bomb planted by Fenians campaigning for an independent Irish Republic exploded on a train near the station. The bomb damaged the train it was ...
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Paddington Recreation Ground. Paddington Recreation Ground is a park in Maida Vale, City of Westminster, just north of Paddington. Its 27-acre site is the largest area of parkland located entirely within the City of Westminster. [1] It was the first park of its kind in London, having operated since 1888. [2]
Paddington was a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London, England. It was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex , governed by an administrative vestry . The parish was included in the area of responsibility of the Metropolitan Board of Works in 1855 and became part of the County of London in 1889.
Entrance from the mainline station. In December 2009, Circle line services began serving the station. Originally operating as a loop-line using tracks constructed by the MR and the DR and serving only the station in Praed Street, the Circle line's route was altered to include the Hammersmith branch to increase train frequency on the branch and improve the regularity of Circle line trains.
Tyburnia on a modern street map. Northern and western edges approximate. Hyde Park lies to the south.. Tyburnia is an area in Paddington, London, originally developed following an 1824 masterplan drawn up by Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753–1827) to redevelop the historic lands of the Bishop of London, known as the Tyburn Estate, into a residential area to rival Belgravia.
A map showing the Westbourne ward of Paddington Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916. A note in the Victoria County History which was written for this area later than most, in 1989, states that in 1901 the prominent western projection of Church ward (shown) formed part of what residents and groups then widely considered to be Westbourne or Westbourne Green. [1]