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Paddington Street Gardens
Paddington Street Gardens are two small public gardens located either side of Paddington Street in the Marylebone area of London. The larger south garden contains a children's playground. History The gardens were built in the 18th century as additional burial grounds for the St Marylebone Parish Church. The land on the south side was donated by Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer in 1730. The land on the north side was later purchased in 1771. The two burial grounds (either side of Paddington Street) were closed to burials in 1814. The Metropolitan Public Gardens Association arranged for the burial grounds to be opened as a public recreation ground in 1885, and the Association's landscape gardener Fanny Wilkinson (Britain's first female professional landscape gardener) laid out the gardens. The original lime trees and London plane trees survive. The gardens were officially opened on 6 July 1886 by Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. The majority of the tombst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddington Street Gardens, City Of Westminster, W1 (2769726921)
Paddington is an List of areas of London, area within the City of Westminster, in Central London. First a medieval parish then a Metropolitan Borough of Paddington, metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are London Paddington station, Paddington station, designed by the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847; St Mary's Hospital, London, St Mary's Hospital; and the former Paddington Green Police Station (once the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom). A major project called Paddington Waterside aims to regenerate former railway and canal land between 1998 and 2018, and the area is seeing many new developments. Offshoot districts (historically within Paddington) are Maida Vale, Westbourne, London, Westbourne and Bayswater including Lancaster Gate. History The earliest extant references to ''Padington'' (or "Padintun", as in the ''Saxon Chartularies' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
