Londra Norfolk Square September 2009 - panoramio

Norfolk Square is a rectangular

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. Located in the

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, it is part of the

Tyburnia Tyburnia, a part of Paddington in 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 ...

district north of

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. It runs east to west from

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to Norfolk Place.

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and Sussex Gardens are directly parallel to it north and south respectively. The street was developed on the site of a former

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of the

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. It was one of three located close to what became Paddington Station, another of them becoming Talbot Square. It was developed in the early

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, and along with Talbot Square became a residential location for the wealthy. At the eastern end was All Saints' Church, built in 1847, but later demolished and replaced with the more modern Edna House apartments. At the western end of the square, across London Street, is the Sawyer's Arms pub. Numbers 2-22, terraces of 1840s stuccoed housing, are now

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as are the slightly later numbers 24–42. Notable residents have included the

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Hertha Ayrton who live there from 1903 to 1923 and is now commemorated with a

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References

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