Torquay Street underwent name changes and building changes.
Category: W2
Hampden Street, W2
Hampden Street is a now demolished street.
Bayswater
Bayard’s Watering Place, recorded in 1380, was where the stream later called the Bayswater rivulet or Westbourne passed under the Uxbridge road. The name presumably denoted a place where horses were refreshed, either from the stream itself or from a spring such as the one in Conduit field which from 1439 supplied the City with …
Queensway, W2
The conservation area lies along the course of the former Westbourne Green Lane, which linked the Uxbridge (now Bayswater) Road with the village of Westbourne Green. A series of name changes saw the route become first Black Lion Lane, then Queens Road, and finally Queensway. At the start of the nineteenth century the area was …
Westbourne Park
The Westbourne area (and parts of Kensington adjacent to here) was laid out and developed mostly around 1850-1855 following the earlier rapid urbanisation of Bayswater and Paddington to the south and east. Westbourne Grove itself still crossed open fields as late as 1840. More recent developments include 32 Newton Road, a modern detached house by …
1766: Hyde Park
A PLAN of HYDE-PARK with the CITY and LIBERTIES of WESTMINSTER &c. Shewing the several IMPROVEMENTS propos’d by architect John Gwynn (1766). This plan shows renovations in Hyde Park and around Westminster. Two Royal palaces have been planned, in Hyde Park and Green Park. The red lines show an intention to regularise the street plan, replacing …
1729: Upton Farm, Bayswater
[advanced_iframe securitykey=”73bfdf36bff161fdb6d48c80a87afbe943e66891″ src=”http://theundergroundmap.com/iframe.html?id=41273&mapyear=1800&zoom=16&iheight=400″ width=”400″ height=”400″] Click on the markers to access locations on the main website In 1710, Robert Pollard was the owner of the old buildings of Bayard’s Watering Place and 6 acres of land in what had once been common fields of Westbourne Green. He sold them to Thomas Upton and his wife …
1828: Paddington
Entitled “Plan of The Parish of Paddington in the County of Middlesex by George Gutch 1828. Copyright and credit: Crace Connection, The British Library
