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2 days ago · PADDINGTON GREEN IN 1750. ( From a Drawing in Mr. Crace's Collection .) The Church of St. Mary ceased to be the parish church of Paddington in 1845, when it was superseded by the new Church of St. James, at the west end of Oxford and Cambridge Terraces, and the south end of Westbourne Terrace.
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Jun 26, 2024 · Under the Metropolis Local Management Act, 1855, Paddington became a civil metropolitan parish within the area of the M.B.W. (fn. 12) In 1900, under the London Government Act, 1899, Queen's Park, the northern part of Chelsea detached, was allotted to the new Paddington metropolitan borough, which also acquired the disused St. George's burial ...
Paddington Green. Paddington Green originally consisted of wasteland occupying a central position on the estate which supported the almoner of Westminster. The name came to be applied both to the surrounding village and to a small part of the open space, east of the late 18th-century church.
In 1887, John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles described Paddington like this: Paddington .-- parl. bor., par., and terminus of the Great Western Railway, Middlesex, in W. of London, 1251 ac., pop. 107,218; Paddington returns 2 members to Parliament (2 divisions - North and South, 1 member for each division); it was made a parl. bor ...
History. Our story of Paddington is entwined with the history of England’s capital city. In existence for hundreds of years, the area has witnessed many historic events, from the arrival of Queen Victoria on her first rail journey in 1842, to the birth of Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis at St Mary’s Hospital more than 170 years later.
Paddington St Mary sub-district comprises all the parts of Paddington parish within a line extending from the corner of Praed Street to the Irongate Wharf inclusive, along the centre of the Paddington basin of the Grand Junction Canal to the Harrowgate Road, and then over the railway bridge at the G.W.R. terminus along the centre of Bishops Road and Westbourne Grove, crossing Westbourne Grove ...
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Historic map - London (First Editions c1850s) XXIV (Paddington; St Marylebone) by Ordnance Survey, published in 1871, part of the Ordnance Survey 25 inch England and Wales, 1841-1952 series
