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Bayswater

January 13, 2023

For other uses, see Bayswater (disambiguation).

Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London.[1] It is a built-up district with a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre, and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and Notting Hill to the west.

Bayswater

View from Bayswater Road
Bayswater
Location within Greater London
Population12,363 (2020 estimate)
OS grid referenceTQ255805
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLONDON
Postcode districtW2
Dialling code020
PoliceMetropolitan
FireLondon
AmbulanceLondon
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
London
51°30′34″N 0°11′34″W / 51.5095°N 0.1929°W / 51.5095; -0.1929Coordinates: 51°30′34″N 0°11′34″W / 51.5095°N 0.1929°W / 51.5095; -0.1929

Much of Bayswater was built in the 1800s, and consists of streets and garden squares lined with Victorian stucco terraces; some of which have been subdivided into flats. Other key developments include the Grade II listed 650-flat Hallfield Estate, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun, and Queensway and Westbourne Grove, its busiest high streets, with a mix of independent, boutique and chain retailers and restaurants.

Bayswater is also one of London's most cosmopolitan areas: a diverse local population is augmented by a high concentration of hotels. In addition to the English, there are many other nationalities. Notable ethnic groups include Greeks, French, Americans, Brazilians, Italians, Irish, Arabs, Malaysians and many others.[citation needed]

Etymology

The name Bayswater is derived from the 1380 placename "Bayards Watering Place", which in Middle English meant either a watering place for horses, or the watering place that belonged to the Bayard family.[2]

Notable residents

Local politics

The Bayswater area elects a total of six councillors to Westminster City Council: three from the eponymous Bayswater ward,[9] and three from Lancaster Gate ward.[10]

Following the 2022 Westminster City Council elections, five members belong to the Labour Party, and one to the Conservative Party, with Bayswater being fully represented by Labour, and Lancaster Gate being split between the two parties. Lancaster Gate can be considered as a marginal ward.[11][12]

Education

For education in Bayswater, see List of schools in the City of Westminster.

Nearest places

Nearest tube stations

 
Bayswater station

The stations within the district are Bayswater and Queensway. Other nearby stations include Paddington (Bakerloo, Circle and District lines and Circle and Hammersmith & City lines),[13] Royal Oak (In Westbourne) and Lancaster Gate (To the east).

Places of interest

References in fiction

See also

References

  1. ^ (PDF). London Plan. Greater London Authority. 2011. p. 46. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 September 2015. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  2. ^ Mills, A. D. (1993). A Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford University Press. p. 28. ISBN 0-19-283131-3.
  3. ^ "The Life of Richard Cobden | Online Library of Liberty".
  4. ^ "Portrait of Richard Cobden, MP 1804 - 1865 | Artware Fine Art".
  5. ^ Maritz, Pieter; Mouton, Sonja (2012). "Francis Guthrie: A Colourful Life" (PDF). The Mathematical Intelligencer. 34 (3): 67–75. doi:10.1007/s00283-012-9307-y. hdl:10019.1/70384. S2CID 121812208. (PDF) from the original on 23 March 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
  6. ^ . Archived from the original on 13 March 2007. Retrieved 2006-02-24. observer.guardian.co.uk
  7. ^ Charlotte Mitchell: Smith, Georgina Castle... Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, UK: OUP, 2004/2008) Retrieved 2 April 2018.
  8. ^ L. Perry Curtis jun., "Tenniel, Sir John (1820–1914)" Retrieved 25 February 2014, pay-walled.
  9. ^ "Westminster.gov.UK: Bayswater Ward profile" (PDF). Bayswater Ward's councillors, boundary map and demographics. Westminster City Council. July 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.[permanent dead link]
  10. ^ "Westminster.gov.UK: Lancaster Gate Ward profile" (PDF). Lancaster Gate Ward's councillors, boundary map and demographics. Westminster City Council. July 2013. Retrieved 3 September 2013.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ "Bayswater". Westminster City Council. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  12. ^ "Lancaster Gate". Westminster City Council. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
  13. ^ . www.queensparkhotel.com. Archived from the original on 12 March 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2016.

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External links

  •   Media related to Bayswater at Wikimedia Commons

January 13, 2023
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For other uses see Bayswater disambiguation Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster in West London 1 It is a built up district with a population density of 17 500 per square kilometre and is located between Kensington Gardens to the south Paddington to the north east and Notting Hill to the west BayswaterView from Bayswater RoadBayswaterLocation within Greater LondonPopulation12 363 2020 estimate OS grid referenceTQ255805RegionLondonCountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townLONDONPostcode districtW2Dialling code020PoliceMetropolitanFireLondonAmbulanceLondonUK ParliamentCities of London and WestminsterWestminster NorthList of places UK England London 51 30 34 N 0 11 34 W 51 5095 N 0 1929 W 51 5095 0 1929 Coordinates 51 30 34 N 0 11 34 W 51 5095 N 0 1929 W 51 5095 0 1929Much of Bayswater was built in the 1800s and consists of streets and garden squares lined with Victorian stucco terraces some of which have been subdivided into flats Other key developments include the Grade II listed 650 flat Hallfield Estate designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and Queensway and Westbourne Grove its busiest high streets with a mix of independent boutique and chain retailers and restaurants Bayswater is also one of London s most cosmopolitan areas a diverse local population is augmented by a high concentration of hotels In addition to the English there are many other nationalities Notable ethnic groups include Greeks French Americans Brazilians Italians Irish Arabs Malaysians and many others citation needed Contents 1 Etymology 2 Notable residents 3 Local politics 4 Education 5 Nearest places 6 Nearest tube stations 7 Places of interest 8 References in fiction 9 See also 10 References 11 External linksEtymology EditThe name Bayswater is derived from the 1380 placename Bayards Watering Place which in Middle English meant either a watering place for horses or the watering place that belonged to the Bayard family 2 Notable residents EditDamon Albarn Brett Anderson Mike Atherton J M Barrie playwright and novelist and his wife Mary lived at 100 Bayswater Road Tony Blair Winston Churchill Richard Cobden lived on Westbourne Terrace 3 4 A J Cronin Umaru Dikko former Nigerian minister of transportation Tim Dry has lived in Bayswater since the early 1980s Ade Edmondson Roger C Field inventor and designer whose first home was flat D 15 Cleveland Square Alexander Fleming Mariella Frostrup Ferdinand de Geramb Reginald Gray Irish artist lived with his wife Catherine at 105a Queensway from 1958 to 1963 J B Gunn physicist lived with his mother the Freudian psychoanalyst L F Gunn Grey Clarke at 14 Durham Terrace in the 1940s Francis Guthrie whose observations led to the Four color theorem 5 Alice Hart Davis Paul Johnson Dylan Jones Jonathan King Keira Knightley Guglielmo Marconi the pioneer of wireless communication lived at 71 Hereford Road between 1896 and 1897 with his mother upon arrival in England marked by a blue plaque Rik Mayall Stella McCartney Queen Noor of Jordan Dermot O Leary Irfan Orga exile and writer lived at 29 35 and 21 Inverness Terrace from 1942 until the mid fifties publishing his memoirs Portrait of a Turkish Family in 1950 Nick Ross Ilyich Ramirez Sanchez terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal Jennifer Saunders Paul Simonon Sting occupied a basement flat at 28A Leinster Square in the late seventies during the formative years of The Police Trudie Styler now his wife lived in a basement flat two doors down 6 Georgina Castle Smith pseudonym Brenda children s writer born and bred in Bayswater 7 Luigi Sturzo Catholic priest and politician and one of the fathers of Christian democracy and a founder of the Italian People s Party 1919 John Tenniel artist and cartoonist was born at 22 Gloucester Place New Road Bayswater on 28 February 1820 8 Jeremy Thorpe Kwasi KwartengLocal politics EditThe Bayswater area elects a total of six councillors to Westminster City Council three from the eponymous Bayswater ward 9 and three from Lancaster Gate ward 10 Following the 2022 Westminster City Council elections five members belong to the Labour Party and one to the Conservative Party with Bayswater being fully represented by Labour and Lancaster Gate being split between the two parties Lancaster Gate can be considered as a marginal ward 11 12 Education EditFor education in Bayswater see List of schools in the City of Westminster Nearest places EditPaddington Notting Hill St John s Wood Knightsbridge Little Venice KensingtonNearest tube stations Edit Bayswater station The stations within the district are Bayswater and Queensway Other nearby stations include Paddington Bakerloo Circle and District lines and Circle and Hammersmith amp City lines 13 Royal Oak In Westbourne and Lancaster Gate To the east Places of interest EditKensington Gardens St Sophia s Cathedral The Mitre Bayswater Whiteleys Shopping Centre under reconstruction citation needed References in fiction EditIn John le Carre s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold Liz is a member of the Bayswater South Branch of the Communist Party In le Carre s Smiley s People the retired Estonian general turned British spy Vladimir lives in a dingy flat on Westbourne Grove Many of the characters in Samuel Selvon s novel The Lonely Londoners live in Bayswater The Alfred Hitchcock film Frenzy was filmed in the area In Martin Amis s Success the two main characters live together in a flat in Bayswater which he calls the district of transients In Oscar Wilde s The Importance of Being Earnest Lady Bracknell indicates that the perambulator carrying Jack as a baby was found standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater In Saki s short story Cross Currents 1909 Vanessa Pennington lives on a Bayswater back street but would have preferred smarter surroundings In Evelyn Waugh s novel Brideshead Revisited Charles Ryder s father lives in Bayswater Whiteleys is frequently seen in film e g Love Actually Closer and was referred to in My Fair Lady as Eliza Doolittle is sent to Whiteleys to be attired in Pygmalion It also has Princess Productions studios on the top floor Scenes in Alfie 1966 were filmed around Chepstow Road The main character in Iris Murdoch s novel A Word Child Hilary Burde has a flatlet near Bayswater Tube Station Scenes in The Black Windmill refer to and were filmed around the area In the Italian comics series Dylan Dog the main character lives in Craven Road Nick Jenkins meets Uncle Giles for tea at the Ufford Hotel riding at anchor on the sluggish Bayswater tide in The Acceptance World 1955 volume three of A Dance to the Music of Time by Anthony Powell Linda Stratmann s novel The Poisonous Seed is set almost entirely in Victorian Bayswater In Lauren Willig s Pink Carnation Series her character Eloise Kelly lives in Bayswater while writing her doctoral thesis In Herbert Jenkins novel Patricia Brent Spinster Patricia lives at Gavin House a boarding house in Bayswater Iron Maiden released a bonus track named Bayswater Ain t a Bad Place to Be on their Be Quick or Be Dead single See also EditIn reference to the Bayswater river refer to River Westbourne Aeroford automobile manufactured in Bayswater Leinster Gardens a false facade on this street hides a London Underground line from view Craven Hill GardensReferences Edit London s Places PDF London Plan Greater London Authority 2011 p 46 Archived from the original PDF on 6 September 2015 Retrieved 27 May 2014 Mills A D 1993 A Dictionary of English Place Names Oxford University Press p 28 ISBN 0 19 283131 3 The Life of Richard Cobden Online Library of Liberty Portrait of Richard Cobden MP 1804 1865 Artware Fine Art Maritz Pieter Mouton Sonja 2012 Francis Guthrie A Colourful Life PDF The Mathematical Intelligencer 34 3 67 75 doi 10 1007 s00283 012 9307 y hdl 10019 1 70384 S2CID 121812208 Archived PDF from the original on 23 March 2014 Retrieved 2 June 2020 Interview Trudie Styler Magazine the Observer Archived from the original on 13 March 2007 Retrieved 2006 02 24 observer guardian co uk Charlotte Mitchell Smith Georgina Castle Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford UK OUP 2004 2008 Retrieved 2 April 2018 L Perry Curtis jun Tenniel Sir John 1820 1914 Retrieved 25 February 2014 pay walled Westminster gov UK Bayswater Ward profile PDF Bayswater Ward s councillors boundary map and demographics Westminster City Council July 2013 Retrieved 3 September 2013 permanent dead link Westminster gov UK Lancaster Gate Ward profile PDF Lancaster Gate Ward s councillors boundary map and demographics Westminster City Council July 2013 Retrieved 3 September 2013 permanent dead link Bayswater Westminster City Council Retrieved 9 October 2022 Lancaster Gate Westminster City Council Retrieved 9 October 2022 Queens Park Hotel Bayswater Tube Station www queensparkhotel com Archived from the original on 12 March 2016 Retrieved 18 January 2016 https tfl gov uk maps track tubeExternal links Edit Media related to Bayswater at Wikimedia Commons Retrieved from https en 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