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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 443 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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. Pop. (1901), 143,976. 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. 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:Grove See also:form a thoroughfare westward, and See also:Queen's Road, Bayswater, leads south from there to Bayswater Road. The name of Paddington finds no See also:place in Domesday—it may have been included in the See also:manor of See also:Tyburn—and the See also:land belonged to the See also:Abbey of Westminster at an See also:early date. It was granted to the see of London by See also:Edward VI. In the 18th See also:century the picturesque rural 'scenery attracted artists, and even in the See also:middle of the 19th the open See also:country was reached within the confines of the See also:present borough, which now contains no traces of antiquity. Bayswater is said to take its name from Baynard, a See also:Norman, who after the See also:Conquest held land here and had a See also:castle by the See also:Thames not far above the See also:Tower of London, whence a See also:ward of the city is called Castle Baynard. Many springs flowed forth here; the stream called Westbourne was near at See also:hand, and See also:water was formerly supplied hence to London. In the borough are the Paddington and the Queen's Park technical institutes; St. See also:Mary's See also:Hospital, See also:Praed See also:Street, with medical school; and Paddington See also:Green See also:children's hospital.

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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
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