Tyburnia on a modern street map. Northern and western edges approximate. Hyde Park lies to the south.
Tyburnia, a part of Paddington in London, originally developed following an 1824 masterplan drawn up by Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1753–1827) to redevelop the historic lands of the Bishop of London, known as the Tyburn Estate, into a residential area to rival Belgravia. Tyburnia was the first part of Paddington to be developed.[1]
The district formed the centrepiece of an 1824 masterplan by Samuel Pepys Cockerell to redevelop the historic lands of the Bishop of London, known as the Tyburn Estate,[3] into a residential area to rival Belgravia.[4] It was the first part of Paddington to be developed.[5]
The area was laid out in the mid-1800s when grand squares and cream-stuccoed terraces started to fill the acres between Paddington station and Hyde Park; however, the plans were never realised in full. The author William Makepeace Thackeray, who lived in Albion Street, described the district as "the elegant, the prosperous, the polite Tyburnia, the most respectable district of the habitable globe."[6]
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Robins, William (1853). Paddington: past and present. p. 195. Retrieved 8 January 2023. The transition-state from an agricultural village to the fashionable Tyburnia, was no very agreeable time for the majority of those who lived in Paddington.
^Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. London 3: North West. Yale University Press, 2002. p.684