Tyburnia is an area in

Paddington Paddington is an area in the City of Westminster, in central London, England. A medieval parish then a metropolitan borough of the County of London, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Paddington station, designed b ...

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, originally developed following an 1824 masterplan drawn up by

Samuel Pepys Cockerell Samuel Pepys Cockerell (15 February 1753 – 12 July 1827) was an English architect. He was a son of John Cockerell, of Bishop's Hull, Somerset, and the elder brother of Sir Charles Cockerell, 1st Baronet, for whom he designed the house he is ...

(1753–1827) to redevelop the historic lands of the

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, known as the

Tyburn Tyburn was a Manorialism, manor (estate) in London, Middlesex, England, one of two which were served by the parish of Marylebone. Tyburn took its name from the Tyburn Brook, a tributary of the River Westbourne. The name Tyburn, from Teo Bourne ...

Estate, into a residential area to rival

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. Tyburnia was the first part of Paddington to be developed.

Area

Samuel Pepys Cockerell by George Dance 1793

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 Edgware Road is a major road in London, England. The route originated as part of Roman Watling Street and, unusually in London, it runs for in an almost perfectly straight line. Forming part of the modern A5 road, Edgware Road undergoes sever ...

in the east and

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and Hyde Park Place in the south. The northern boundary is generally regarded as

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and

Praed Street Praed Street () is a street in Paddington, west London, in the City of Westminster, most notable for being the location of London Paddington station and St Mary's Hospital, London. It runs south-westerly, straight from Edgware Road to Craven R ...

, while the western boundary is generally regarded as Gloucester Terrace.

Sussex Gardens Sussex Gardens is a street in Paddington in Central London. It runs westwards from the Edgware Road, for most of the way as a broad Avenue (landscape), avenue until it reaches an area near Lancaster Gate where it becomes a garden square. Part o ...

provides the main axis of the area, off which other streets run. It features several

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s including Norfolk Square, Talbot Square,

Hyde Park Square Hyde Park Square is a residential, tree-planted, garden square one block north of Hyde Park, London, Hyde Park fronted by classical buildings, many of which are listed building, listed and marks a crossover of Lancaster Gate and Connaught Village ...

and Sussex Square. Streets include Albion Street, Stanhope Terrace, Connaught Street and Connaught Place.

St George's Fields St George's Fields was an area of Southwark in South London, England. History Originally the area was an undifferentiated part of the south side of the Thames, which was low-lying marshland unsuitable even for agricultural purposes. There ...

is also located in the area.

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, into a residential area to rival

. It was the first part of Paddington to be developed. The area was laid out in the mid-1800s when grand squares and cream-

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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 William Makepeace Thackeray ( ; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was an English novelist and illustrator. He is known for his Satire, satirical works, particularly his 1847–1848 novel ''Vanity Fair (novel), Vanity Fair'', a panoramic portra ...

, who lived in Albion Street, described the district as "the elegant, the prosperous, the polite Tyburnia, the most respectable district of the habitable globe."

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