Bayswater is an area within the
City of Westminster
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in
West London
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The term is used to differentiate the area from the other parts of London: North London ...
. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between
Kensington Gardens
Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde P ...
to the south,
Paddington
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddi ...
to the north-east, and
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road M ...
to the west.
Much of Bayswater was built in the 1800s, and consists of streets and
garden squares
A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is ''control''. The garden can incorporate both ...
lined with
Victorian
Victorian or Victorians may refer to:
19th century
* Victorian era, British history during Queen Victoria's 19th-century reign
** Victorian architecture
** Victorian house
** Victorian decorative arts
** Victorian fashion
** Victorian literature ...
stucco
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terraces; some of which have been subdivided into flats. Other key developments include the Grade II listed 650-flat
Hallfield Estate
The Hallfield Estate, owned by Westminster City Council, is one of several modernist architecture, modernist housing projects in Bayswater, London designed in the immediate postwar period by the Tecton Group, Tecton architecture practice, led ...
, designed by
Sir Denys Lasdun
Sir Denys Louis Lasdun, CH, CBE, RA (8 September 1914, Kensington, London – 11 January 2001, Fulham, London) was an eminent English architect, the son of Nathan Lasdun (1879–1920) and Julie (''née'' Abrahams; 1884–1963). Probably his be ...
, and
Queensway and
Westbourne Grove
Westbourne Grove is a retail road running across Notting Hill, an area of west London. Its western end is in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and its eastern end is in the City of Westminster; it runs from Kensington Park Road in the ...
, its busiest high streets, with a mix of independent, boutique and chain retailers and restaurants.
Bayswater is also one of London's most cosmopolitan areas: a diverse local population is augmented by a high concentration of hotels. In addition to the
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
, there are many other nationalities. Notable ethnic groups include
Greeks
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,
French
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* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
,
Americans
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,
Brazilians
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,
Italians
, flag =
, flag_caption = The national flag of Italy
, population =
, regions = Italy 55,551,000
, region1 = Brazil
, pop1 = 25–33 million
, ref1 =
, region2 ...
,
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
,
Arabs
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,
Malaysians
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The country is h ...
and many others.
Etymology
The name Bayswater is derived from the 1380 placename "Bayards Watering Place", which in
Middle English
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meant either a watering place for horses, or the watering place that belonged to the Bayard family.
Notable residents
*
Damon Albarn
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*
Brett Anderson
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*
Mike Atherton
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*
J. M. Barrie
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, playwright and novelist, and his wife, Mary, lived at 100 Bayswater Road.
*
Tony Blair
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*
Winston Churchill
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*
Richard Cobden
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As a young ...
, lived on
Westbourne Terrace
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*
A. J. Cronin
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*
Umaru Dikko
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Early life
Dikko was born in Wamba. Wamba is sm ...
, former Nigerian minister of transportation
*
Tim Dry
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has lived in Bayswater since the early 1980s.
*
Ade Edmondson
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*
Roger C. Field
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, inventor and designer whose first home was flat D, 15 Cleveland Square
*
Alexander Fleming
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*
Mariella Frostrup
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Frostrup was born in Oslo, Norway, to Peter and Joan Frostrup, but moved with her fam ...
*
Ferdinand de Géramb Ferdinand de Géramb (14 January 1772 – 15 March 1848) was an Austrian or French supposed aristocrat, military officer, courtier, adventurer and later Trappist monk and religious author. He served as lieutenant-general in the Austrian army, ch ...
*
Reginald Gray, Irish artist, lived with his wife Catherine at 105a Queensway from 1958 to 1963.
*
J. B. Gunn
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, physicist, lived with his mother, the Freudian psychoanalyst L. F. Gunn/Grey-Clarke, at 14 Durham Terrace, in the 1940s
*
Francis Guthrie
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, whose observations led to the
Four color theorem
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*
Alice Hart-Davis
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Born in Builth Wells, the daughter of the biographer and journalist Duff Hart-Davis, and a granddaughter of publisher ...
*
Paul Johnson
*
Dylan Jones
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*
Jonathan King
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*
Keira Knightley
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*
Guglielmo Marconi
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, the pioneer of wireless communication, lived at 71 Hereford Road between 1896 and 1897 with his mother upon arrival in England (marked by a
blue plaque
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).
*
Rik Mayall
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*
Stella McCartney
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*
Queen Noor of Jordan
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*
Dermot O'Leary
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*
Irfan Orga
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, exile and writer, lived at 29, 35 and 21 Inverness Terrace from 1942 until the mid-fifties, publishing his memoirs ''Portrait of a Turkish Family'' in 1950.
*
Nick Ross
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*
Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, terrorist known as
Carlos the Jackal
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*
Jennifer Saunders
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*
Paul Simonon
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*
Sting
Sting may refer to:
* Stinger or sting, a structure of an animal to inject venom, or the injury produced by a stinger
* Irritating hairs or prickles of a stinging plant, or the plant itself
Fictional characters and entities
* Sting (Middle-eart ...
occupied a basement flat at 28A
Leinster Square in the late seventies during the formative years of
The Police
The Police were an English rock band formed in London in 1977. For most of their history the line-up consisted of primary songwriter Sting (lead vocals, bass guitar), Andy Summers (guitar) and Stewart Copeland (drums, percussion). The Police ...
.
Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler (born 6 January 1954) is an English actress and film producer.
Early life and family
Styler was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the daughter of Pauline and Harry Styler, a farmer and factory worker. When Styler was two years ...
, now his wife, lived in a basement flat two doors down.
*
Georgina Castle Smith
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(pseudonym Brenda), children's writer born and bred in Bayswater
*
Luigi Sturzo
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, Catholic priest and politician, and one of the fathers of Christian democracy and a founder of the
Italian People's Party (1919)
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*
John Tenniel
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, artist and cartoonist, was born at 22 Gloucester Place, New Road, Bayswater on 28 February 1820.
*
Jeremy Thorpe
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*
Kwasi Kwarteng
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Local politics
The Bayswater area elects a total of six councillors to
Westminster City Council
Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England. The city is divided into 20 wards, each electing three councillors. The council is currently composed of 31 Labour Party members and 23 Cons ...
: three from the eponymous Bayswater ward,
and three from Lancaster Gate ward.
Following the
2022 Westminster City Council elections, five members belong to the
Labour Party, and one to the
Conservative Party
The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right.
Political parties called The Conservative P ...
, with Bayswater being fully represented by Labour, and Lancaster Gate being split between the two parties. Lancaster Gate can be considered as a
marginal ward.
Education
Nearest places
*
Paddington
Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddi ...
*
Notting Hill
Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and Portobello Road M ...
*
St John's Wood
St John's Wood is a district in the City of Westminster, London, lying 2.5 miles (4 km) northwest of Charing Cross. Traditionally the northern part of the ancient parish and Metropolitan Borough of Marylebone, it extends east to west from ...
*
Knightsbridge
Knightsbridge is a residential and retail district in central London, south of Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park. It is identified in the London Plan as one of two international retail centres in London, alongside the West End of London, West End.
...
*
Little Venice
Little Venice is a district in West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin. The junction forms a triangular shape basin. Many of the buildi ...
*
Kensington
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The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
Nearest tube stations
![Bayswater Tube Station London](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Bayswater_Tube_Station_London.jpg)
The stations within the district are
Bayswater
Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London. It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and ...
and
Queensway. Other nearby stations include Paddington (
Bakerloo, Circle and District lines and
Circle and Hammersmith & City lines),
Royal Oak
The Royal Oak is the English oak tree within which the future King Charles II of England hid to escape the Roundheads following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. The tree was in Boscobel Wood, which was part of the park of Boscobel House. C ...
(In Westbourne) and
Lancaster Gate
Lancaster Gate is a mid-19th century development in the Bayswater district of central London, immediately to the north of Kensington Gardens. It consists of two long terraces of houses overlooking the park, with a wide gap between them openi ...
(To the east).
Places of interest
*
Kensington Gardens
Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London. The gardens are shared by the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and sit immediately to the west of Hyde P ...
*
St Sophia's Cathedral
*
The Mitre, Bayswater
The Mitre is a Grade II listed public house at 24 Craven Terrace, Lancaster Gate, Bayswater, City of Westminster.
It was built in the mid-19th century. It has traditional wooden bar furniture with original etched glass and mosaic floors. A ...
*
Whiteleys Shopping Centre ''under reconstruction''
References in fiction
* In
John le Carré
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's ''
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold'', Liz is a member of the Bayswater South Branch of the
Communist Party
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.
* In le Carré's ''
Smiley's People
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'', the retired Estonian general turned British spy, Vladimir, lives in a dingy flat on Westbourne Grove.
* Many of the characters in
's novel ''
The Lonely Londoners
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'' live in Bayswater.
* The
Alfred Hitchcock
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film ''
Frenzy
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'' was filmed in the area.
* In
Martin Amis
Martin Louis Amis (born 25 August 1949) is a British novelist, essayist, memoirist, and screenwriter. He is best known for his novels ''Money'' (1984) and ''London Fields'' (1989). He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his memoir '' ...
's ''Success'', the two main characters live together in a flat in Bayswater, which he calls 'the district of transients.'
* In
Oscar Wilde
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's ''
The Importance of Being Earnest
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'', Lady Bracknell indicates that the perambulator (carrying Jack, as a baby) was found "standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater".
* In
Saki
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's short story "Cross Currents" (1909), Vanessa Pennington lives on a "Bayswater back street" but would have preferred "smarter surroundings."
* In
Evelyn Waugh
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's novel ''
Brideshead Revisited
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'', Charles Ryder's father lives in Bayswater.
*
Whiteleys
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is frequently seen in film, e.g. ''
Love Actually
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'', ''
Closer'', and was referred to in ''
My Fair Lady
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'' as Eliza Doolittle is sent "to Whiteleys to be attired" in ''Pygmalion''. It also has
Princess Productions
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' studios on the top floor.
* Scenes in ''
Alfie
Alfie may refer to:
Theatre and film
* ''Alfie'' (play), a 1963 play by Bill Naughton
* ''Alfie'' (1966 film), a film based on the play starring Michael Caine
* ''Alfie'' (2004 film), a remake of the 1966 film
* ''Alfie'' (2013 film), an Indi ...
'' (1966) were filmed around
Chepstow Road.
* The main character in
Iris Murdoch
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's novel ''
A Word Child'', Hilary Burde, has a "flatlet" near Bayswater Tube Station.
* Scenes in ''
The Black Windmill
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Plot
Two schoolboys are playin ...
'' refer to, and were filmed around, the area.
* In the Italian comics series ''
Dylan Dog
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The series features the eponymous character, a paranormal investigator who takes on cases involving supernatural ele ...
'' the main character lives in Craven Road.
* Nick Jenkins meets Uncle Giles for tea at the Ufford Hotel, "riding at anchor on the sluggish Bayswater tide", in ''
The Acceptance World
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'' (1955), volume three of ''
A Dance to the Music of Time
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'' by
Anthony Powell
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Powell' ...
.
*
Linda Stratmann
Linda Stratmann (born 1948 in Leicester, UK) is a British writer of historical true crime, biography and crime fiction.
Early life
She was born in the City of Leicester in a family which belonged to the Orthodox Jewish community. Her parents were ...
's novel ''The Poisonous Seed'' is set almost entirely in Victorian Bayswater.
* In
Lauren Willig
Lauren Willig is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author of historical novels. She is best known for her "Pink Carnation" series, which follows a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel, as they fight for Br ...
's Pink Carnation Series, her character Eloise Kelly lives in Bayswater while writing her doctoral thesis.
*In Herbert Jenkins' novel, ''Patricia Brent, Spinster'', Patricia lives at Gavin House, a boarding house in Bayswater.
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Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden are an English heavy metal band formed in Leyton, East London, in 1975 by bassist and primary songwriter Steve Harris. While fluid in the early years of the band, the lineup for most of the band's history has consisted of Harri ...
released a bonus track named "Bayswater Ain't a Bad Place to Be" on their "Be Quick or Be Dead" single.
See also
* In reference to the Bayswater river, refer to
River Westbourne
The Westbourne or Kilburn is a culverted small River Thames tributary in London, rising in Hampstead and Brondesbury Park and which as a drain unites and flows southward through Kilburn and Bayswater (west end of Paddington) to skirt underne ...
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Aeroford
The Aeroford was an English automobile that was manufactured in Bayswater, London from 1920 to 1925. The Aeroford was an attempt to make the Ford Model T more attractive by disguising its appearance with a unique bonnet and radiator grille.
The ...
– automobile manufactured in Bayswater
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Leinster Gardens
Leinster Gardens is a street in Bayswater, London. It is lined with tall, ornate, mid-Victorian terraced houses, many of which are listed buildings.
Layout
Leinster Gardens is mostly made up of a half-lined avenue lined with tall, ornate, m ...
– a false façade on this street hides a
London Underground
The London Underground (also known simply as the Underground or by its nickname the Tube) is a rapid transit system serving Greater London and some parts of the adjacent ceremonial counties of England, counties of Buckinghamshire, Essex and He ...
line from view
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Craven Hill Gardens
Craven Hill Gardens is a classical, Victorian, residential garden estate which has two small garden squares, the green subset of squares in London. It is in Bayswater, in its Lancaster Gate neighbourhood, south-west of contemporary Paddington ...
References
https://tfl.gov.uk/maps/track/tube
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Districts of the City of Westminster
Places formerly in Middlesex