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Paddington Green is a green space and conservation area in the City of Westminster located off Edgware Road and adjacent to the Westway. It is the oldest part of Paddington and became a separate conservation area in 1988, having previously formed part of Maida Vale conservation area. At one time, the Green was surrounded by large Georgian houses, but now only two remain on the east side of the Green.

Paddington Green originally consisted of wasteland occupying a central position on the estate which supported the almoner of Westminster. The name came to be applied both to the surrounding village and to a small part of the open space, east of the late 18th-century church. The area described below is larger: bounded north-east by Edgware Road, south and for much of the south-west by the Grand Junction canal, and north-west by the Regent's canal, it corresponds with the north-eastern part of Church ward as created in 1901.

When the green was first recorded in 1549 it spread southward across Harrow Road near its junction with Edgware Road. Presumably the medieval chapel stood near the middle of the north side of the waste, as did the 17th-century church, which was farther north than its successor. In 1647 a large house adjoined the northern side of the churchyard, with another to the east; one of them was the manor house, perhaps the building in use by 1582, and nearby there was also a divided vicarage house. A fishpond was mentioned in 1617 and the lord had six ponds on the green in 1647, by which date encroachments included a tenement and two small gardens.

The buildings around the green and those a little farther east, rounding the junction of Harrow and Edgware roads, constituted a single settlement. The description of properties in 1773 as in the Square or as in Paddington may have represented an attempt to distinguish the green from Edgware Road, but the only distinctions made in 1552 and 1664 had been between Paddington and Westbourne. The town of Paddington was a term used in 1757, although the locality was normally described as a village until the building of Tyburnia joined it to London.

By 1746 there were houses from Edgware Road along Harrow Road to a little way beyond the green and along Church Street to the north. Others faced the east side of the green. A pond, perhaps formed out of several earlier ones, lay on the south side of Harrow Road. Presumably it was the church pond, from which no mud or sand was to be taken in 1722. Almshouses were built west of the pond, probably in 1714, and throughout the 18th century other parcels of waste were taken for cottages or as additions to the gardens of larger houses. Paddington House or its predecessor had been built on the east side of the green and was freehold by 1720, when the owner Denis Chirac, a retired jeweller, was admitted to some waste in front of it. Probably it was the three-storeyed house, with elm trees and a small pond nearby, drawn by John Chatelaine in 1750.
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Distance between:

Paris to Serpaize 259 Miles / 416 Kms
Marseille to Serpaize 158 Miles / 255 Kms


Population: 2108 inhabitants
Code of the commune: 38484
Postal Code: 38200