Tyburnia

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.

Contents
1 Area
2 History
3 References
4 External links

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 Craven Road and Praed Street, while
the western boundary is generally regarded as Gloucester
Terrace.

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]

References
1. "Tyburnia – A History of the Paddington Estates". Hyde
Park Square Garden. 20 October 2014. Retrieved 11
June 2017.
2. Walford, Edward. "Tyburn and Tyburnia". Old and New
London: Volume 5. British History Online. Retrieved 11
June 2017.
3. T F T Baker, Diane K Bolton and Patricia E C Croot
(1989). "'Paddington: Tyburnia' in A History of the
County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead,
Paddington". British History Online. pp. 190–198.
Retrieved 11 June 2017.
4. Brewer, E. Cobham. "Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and
 Fable (1898)". Bartleby.com. Retrieved 11 June 2017.

External links
Media related to Tyburnia at Wikimedia Commons

Coordinates: 51.5149°N 0.1701°W

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