Tyburnia

Tyburnia on a modern street map. Northern and western edges approximate. Hyde Park to the south.

Tyburnia is a part of Paddington created to an 1824 masterplan by Samuel Pepys Cockerell to redevelop the historic lands of the Bishop of London, known as the Tyburn Estate, into a residential area to rival Belgravia. It was the first part of Paddington to be developed.

Area[]

The area called Tyburnia has varied over time and it was never finished according to the original plan but it is certainly bounded by Edgware Road in the east and Bayswater Road and Hyde Park Place in the south. The northern boundary is generally regarded as and Praed Street, while the western boundary is generally regarded as .

History[]

The district formed the centrepiece of an 1824 masterplan by Samuel Pepys Cockerell to redevelop the historic lands of the Bishop of London, known as the Tyburn Estate,^[1] into a residential area to rival Belgravia.^[2] It was the first part of Paddington to be developed.^[3]

The area was laid out in the mid-1800s when grand squares and cream-stuccoed terraces started to fill the acres between Paddington station and Hyde Park; however, the plans were never realised in full. The author William Makepeace Thackeray described the district as "the elegant, the prosperous, the polite Tyburnia, the most respectable district of the habitable globe."^[4]

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Media related to Tyburnia at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 51°30′54″N 0°10′12″W / 51.5149°N 0.1701°W / 51.5149; -0.1701

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