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  2. River Tyburn - Wikipedia

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    This may refer to the two branches of the Tyburn which passed through Marylebone and converged to the north of Oxford Street. Ekwall, writing in 1928, suggested that the name meant boundary stream as it followed a course between Lilestone manor and Tyburn manor, but this is now questioned, as both of the river banks were in Tyburn manor. [2]

  3. Marylebone - Wikipedia

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    Marylebone was an Ancient Parish formed to serve the manors (landholdings) of Lileston (in the west, which gives its name to modern Lisson Grove) and Tyburn in the east. The parish is likely to have been in place since at least the twelfth century and will have used the boundaries of the pre-existing manors.

  4. List of river name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Modder: from Afrikaans meaning "mud". Mooi River (KwaZulu-Natal) and Mooi River (Vaal): from Afrikaans meaning "beautiful". Niger: from the Tuareg phrase gher n gheren meaning "river of rivers", shortened to ngher. Nile: from Greek Neilos (Νεῖλος), sometimes derived from the Semitic Nahal "river." Nossob: from Khoikhoi meaning "black river".

  5. Category:Marylebone - Wikipedia

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  6. Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone - Wikipedia

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    The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a metropolitan borough of the County of London from 1900 to 1965. It was based directly on the previously existing civil parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex , which was incorporated into the Metropolitan Board of Works area in 1855, retaining a parish vestry , and then became part of the County of ...

  7. Marylebone Lane - Wikipedia

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    The north end of the lane. Marylebone Lane is one of the original streets of the Marylebone district of the City of Westminster, London.It runs from Oxford Street in the south to Marylebone High Street in the north, its winding shape following the course of the River Tyburn that it once ran alongside and pre-dating the grid pattern of the other streets in the area.

  8. River Colne, Hertfordshire - Wikipedia

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    Among early proposals to link the river to London was one in 1641 by Sir Edward Forde for a navigable canal, the main purpose of which seems to have been the supply of clean water, and two in 1766, for canals from Marylebone to the river at Uxbridge and another from Marylebone to West Drayton. [5] The river underwent considerable change in the ...

  9. Marylebone Road - Wikipedia

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    In 1857, the road's name was changed from New Road, with sections, west to east, renamed Marylebone Road, Euston Road [2] and Pentonville Road. The name Marylebone originates from a church, called "St Mary Le Bon", that was built on the bank of a small stream or "bourne" called the tybourne, in an area named after the stream Tyburn.