Warwick Crescent London W2 (geograph 3137086)

Warwick Crescent is a street in

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. It connects

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with Westbourne Terrace Road, running along the southern edge of the

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. The street began to be built up around 1852 when William Buddle purchased 12 plots of land for development.T F T Baker, Diane K Bolton and Patricia E C Croot, 'Paddington: Westbourne Green', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1989), pp. 198–204. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol9/pp198-204 ccessed 9 May 2019 The poet Robert Browning lived at No. 19 between 1861 and 1887, where he wrote ''

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''. Beauchamp Lodge at No. 2 Warwick Crescent was used as a hostel for musicians for many years.

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stayed at the Lodge in 1908. At the turn of the 20th century, the area around the street went into gradual decline and suffered overcrowding. By the 1950s it had become one of the worst slums in London. In 1966, the street was cleared of properties by the Greater London Council and rebuilt.

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Citations Sources * Westbourne, London Streets in the City of Westminster {{London-road-stub