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Westbourne Gardens

Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°11′26″W / 51.5172°N 0.1906°W / 51.5172; -0.1906
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Westbourne Gardens, known as Westbourne Park until the late nineteenth century, are gardens on a triangular plot in Bayswater, London, in the City of Westminster. The gardens are open to the public and maintained by the City of Westminster.[1]

Location

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The Westbourne Gardens area

The gardens are surrounded by terraces of Georgian townhouses also known as Westbourne Gardens which continue north to Westbourne Park Road, east to Porchester Road, south to Sunderland Terrace, and west to Durham Terrace.

History

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Westbourne Park on an 1870s Ordnance Survey map.

Westbourne Gardens is one of eleven streets in the Westbourne area of Paddington named after the River Westbourne that once flowed through the area above ground but was culverted and enclosed in the nineteenth century.[2]

Former residents

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The Blackall family [dates to come],lived at No. 47

References

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  1. ^ Welcome to Westbourne Gardens. City of Westminster. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  2. ^ Ackroyd, Peter. (2012). London Under. London: Vintage Books. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-09-928737-7.
  3. ^ Burke, David. (2014). The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. p. 23. ISBN 978-1-84383-783-1.
  4. ^ "Rose, Reginald Leslie Smith- (1894–1980)", Charles Oatley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 30 July 2017. (subscription required)
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