Editing Paddington (section)

===Tyburnia===
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The southeast section of Tyburnia used to be a shanty-town in the 1790s before the Canal was built and brought much needed employment to its inhabitants. The area was built up during the course of the [[Napoleonic Wars]].<ref name=":02" />

In the 19th century the part of the parish most sandwiched between Edgware Road and [[Westbourne Terrace]], [[Gloucester Terrace]] and [[Craven Hill]], bounded to the south by Bayswater Road, was known as Tyburnia. The district formed the centrepiece of an 1824 masterplan by [[Samuel Pepys Cockerell]] to redevelop the Tyburn Estate (historic lands of the Bishop of London) into a residential area to rival [[Belgravia]].<ref name="Tyburnia">{{cite web|last=Walford|first=Edward|title=Tyburn and Tyburnia|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45231|work=Old and New London: Volume 5|publisher=British History Online|access-date=27 September 2013}}</ref>

The area was laid out in the mid-1800s when grand squares and cream-[[stucco (material)|stuccoed]] terraces started to fill the acres between Paddington station and Hyde Park; however, the plans were never realised in full. Despite this, Thackeray described the residential district of Tyburnia as "the elegant, the prosperous, the polite Tyburnia, the most respectable district of the habitable globe."<ref>{{cite web|last=Brewer|first=E. Cobham|title=Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)|url=http://www.bartleby.com/81/16894.html|publisher=Bartleby.com|access-date=27 September 2013}}</ref>