Editing Kilburn, London (section)

==Geographic and administrative context==
Kilburn has never been an administrative unit and has therefore never had any formally defined boundaries. The area, which took its name from a nearby watercourse and eponymous priory, developed from a linear hamlet along Watling Street (here called Kilburn High Road) which was the boundary of the [[Civil Parish#Ancient parishes|Ancient parishes]] of [[Willesden]] – to the west of Watling Street and now part of Brent, and [[Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead|Hampstead]] to the east (now part of Camden). These parishes subsequently became a [[Municipal Borough|Municipal]] and a [[Metropolitan Borough|Metropolitan]] Borough respectively (based on the same boundaries), before merging with neighbouring areas in 1965 to form modern London Boroughs of which they are now part.

[[File:Hampstead Met. B Ward Map 1916.svg|thumb|A map showing the Kilburn ward of Hampstead Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916.]]
If Kilburn is taken to extend into the City of Westminster then the historic districts it overlaps are [[Paddington]], to the west of Watling Street, and [[Marylebone]] to the east of it. Both of these areas became part of the City of Westminster in 1965.
The electoral wards of 'Kilburn (Camden)' and 'Kilburn (Brent)' cover some of the area.
Much of the area is in the NW6 postcode area, and by some interpretations the area extends into W9; however these do not define the Kilburn – post code areas were never intended to delineate districts and Kilburn (like many London districts) overlaps with others – some which have a history of formal definition (e.g. Willesden, Hampstead) and others which do not (e.g. [[Brondesbury]] in Willesden).

{{Geographic location
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|state=expanded
|title     = '''Neighbouring areas of Kilburn'''
|Northwest = [[Willesden Green]], [[Brondesbury]]
|North     = [[Fortune Green]]/[[West Hampstead]], [[Cricklewood]]
|Northeast = [[West Hampstead]]
|West      = [[Queen's Park, London|Queen's Park]], [[Brondesbury]]/[[Kensal Rise]]
|Centre    = Kilburn
|East      = [[South Hampstead]], [[Swiss Cottage]]
|Southwest = West Kilburn, [[Kensal Town]]
|South     = [[Maida Hill]]/[[Maida Vale]]
|Southeast = [[St John's Wood]]
}}