Westbourne Gardens, known as Westbourne Park until the late nineteenth century, are gardens on a triangular plot in Paddington, London, in the

City of Westminster The City of Westminster is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and London boroughs, borough in Inner London. It is the site of the United Kingdom's Houses of Parliament and much of the British government. It occupies a large area of cent ...

. The gardens are open to the public and maintained by the City of Westminster.Welcome to Westbourne Gardens.
City of Westminster. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

Location

The gardens are surrounded by terraces of Georgian townhouses also known as Westbourne Gardens which continue north to

Westbourne Park Road Westbourne may refer to: Places *Westbourne, Dorset, part of Bournemouth, England * Westbourne, London, an area west of Paddington in west London, England * Westbourne, Manitoba, Canada * Westbourne (Richmond, Virginia), a historic home located i ...

, east to Porchester Road, south to

Sunderland Terrace Sunderland () is a port city in Tyne and Wear, England. It is the City of Sunderland's administrative centre and in the Historic counties of England, historic county of County of Durham, Durham. The city is from Newcastle-upon-Tyne and is on t ...

, and west to

Durham Terrace Durham most commonly refers to: *Durham, England, a cathedral city and the county town of County Durham *County Durham, an English county *Durham County, North Carolina, a county in North Carolina, United States *Durham, North Carolina, a city in No ...

History

Westbourne Gardens is one of eleven streets in the Westbourne area of Paddington named after the

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 ...

that once flowed through the area above ground but was culverted and enclosed in the nineteenth century.

Former residents

Alexander Tudor-Hart Alexander Ethan Tudor-Hart (born Hart; 3 September 1901 – 1992) was a British medical doctor in South Wales who was active in the Communist Party of Great Britain. He was the great grandson of American merchant Frederic Tudor and father of Dr J ...

, British communist, lived at 5c in the 1930s. *

Reginald Smith-Rose Reginald Leslie Smith-Rose Commander of the Order of British Empire, CBE (2 April 1894 – 19 March 1980) was an English physicist of the National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), National Physical Laboratory who was a world leader in radio di ...

, physicist, was born at No. 7 in 1894."Rose, Reginald Leslie Smith- (1894–1980)"
Charles Oatley, '' Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004. Retrieved 30 July 2017.

References

External links

Streets in the City of Westminster Paddington Gardens in London Westbourne, London {{London-geo-stub