Kilburn Lane is a street in Northwest London which runs through

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, London and Kilburn, London. Its route marks the boundary between the

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and the

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. To the east it continues into

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. At the western end the street curves southwards until it meets

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, becoming

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and continuing across the

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. It is a historic road, marking a route from the old village of Kensal to

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before

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's dissolution of the monasteries in the sixteenth century. During the seventeenth century part of it became known as Flowerhills Lane. The area was rural for most of its existence, as major development didn't take place until the nineteenth century when London expanded into new suburbs. At this time the area directly south of the Lane was known as Queen's Park Estate (and gave its name to the football club

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which was founded there in the 1880s), but in the twentieth century this name has come to refer to the area north of Kilburn Lane centred on Queen's Park tube station. At the junction with Harrow Road the

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St. John the Evangelist's Church was opened in 1844. Kilburn Lane also contains the late

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West Kilburn Baptist Church.Cherry & Pevsner p.133

References

Bibliography

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