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PADDINGTON
, a See also:north-western See also:metropolitan See also:borough of See also:London, See also:England, bounded E. by See also:Hampstead and Marylebone, S. by the See also:city of See also:Westminster, and W. by See also:Kensington, and extending N. to the boundary of the See also:county of London
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The best houses are found in the streets and squares of Bayswater, in the See also:south-See also:west, neighbouring to Kensington Gardens (a small See also:part of which is in the borough) and to See also:Hyde See also:Park, farther See also:east, while in the north-east are broad avenues and " mansions " of residential flats
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Bayswater Road, skirting the park and gardens, forms part of the See also:southern boundary of the borough; Edgware Road forms the eastern; from this See also:Harrow Road branches north-west, See also:Bishop's Road and Westbourne See also: The See also:terminus of the See also:Great Western railway, facing Praed Street, is called Paddington Station . The See also:parliamentary borough of Paddington has north and south divisions, each returning one member . The borough See also:council consists of a See also:mayor, to aldermen and 6o councillors . See also:Area, 1356.1 acres . |
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please can you tell me if there are any pictures of st marys church paddington green where sarah siddons is beried so i can see her grave thank you tracy
I was researching St Mary's Church, Paddington Green as my grandfather's grandfather was christened there in 1832, the year after Sarah Siddons' death. Lovely pictures of the churchyard are here http://tinyurl.com/yaobr7 but there are no explanations. On www.british-history.ac.uk there is this information "Plane trees shade the railed paths of the green itself and a marble statue of Sarah Siddons as the Tragic Muse, by Léon-Joseph Chavalliaud, unveiled in 1897. (fn. 20) Other established trees border the former burial ground, which, with tombstones lined against its wall, stretches north to a children's playground. A few tombs stand undisturbed, including that of Sarah Siddons beneath a modern glass canopy."
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