Westbourne Terrace Road runs between
Blomfield Road in the north and
Westbourne Bridge
Westbourne Bridge is a grade II listed road bridge in the City of Westminster, London. It was built some time after 1909 for the Great Western Railway.
It carries road traffic over the railway lines in and out of Paddington Station and is joined ...
in the south. The north part of the road is a bridge over the Paddington branch of the
Grand Union Canal
The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system. It is the principal navigable waterway between London and the Midlands. Starting in London, one arm runs to Leicester and another ends in Birmingham, with the latter st ...
in
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 ...
known as Westbourne Terrace Road bridge. It is crossed by
Delamere Terrace and
Warwick Crescent
Warwick Crescent is a street in Little Venice, London. It connects Harrow Road with Westbourne Terrace Road, running along the southern edge of the Grand Union Canal.
The street began to be built up around 1852 when William Buddle purchased 12 p ...
in the north and joined by Blomfield Mews on its east side.
The road was developed in 1850-55 and is composed mostly of stucco mid-nineteenth century terraced houses, the majority of which are
grade II listed
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with
Historic England
Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. It is tasked wit ...
.
The crime fiction writer
Margery Allingham
Margery Louise Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four " Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh.
Alli ...
(1904-1966) lived at number 1 from 1916 to 1926 and a green plaque notes the fact.
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Westbourne, London
Paddington
Streets in the City of Westminster
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