A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Paddington. You may be able to find further references to Paddington in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | PADDINGTON | a metropolitan parish and two sub-districts | Imperial |
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This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Paddington.
| Place | Type of entry | Source | Bayswater | railway station and suburb | Bartholomew | BAYSWATER | a suburb of London, and a chapelry | Imperial | KILBURN PARK | an estate | Imperial | MAIDA-HILL | a quondam-hamlet | Imperial |
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This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Paddington within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. | Karl Moritz | Chapter 6: Around London | 3 | George Borrow | Wrexham and Llangollen | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Letter 6, Part 1: Middlesex, Hertford and Buckinghamshire | 1 | Daniel Defoe | Appendix to the second volume | 1 | John Wesley | 1754-6: Retirement in Paddington; Wesley Slandered; Premonitions | 1 | Karl Moritz | Chapter 7: St. Paul's Cathedral | 1 |
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This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Lisson Grove | 0 | 1 |
| Edgware Road | 0 | 1 |
| Maida Hill | 0 | 2 |
| St Johns Wood | 0 | 2 |
| Bayswater | 0 | 2 |
| St Marylebone | 11 | 3 |
| Regents Park | 0 | 1 |
| Portland Town | 0 | 2 |
| Hyde Park | 0 | 1 |
| Westbourne Park | 0 | 2 |
| Primrose Hill | 0 | 2 |
| Kensington Gravel Pits | 0 | 1 |
| Swiss Cottage | 0 | 1 |
| Mayfair | 0 | 4 |
| Chalk Farm | 0 | 2 |
| Kilburn | 0 | 2 |
| Ossulstone | 0 | 2 |
| Knightsbridge | 0 | 2 |
| Kensal Town | 0 | 1 |
| Somers Town | 0 | 2 |
