The volume is the second to cover parts of Middlesex which lay from
1889 until 1965 within the administrative county of London, and
contains histories of the parishes of Hampstead and Paddington.
Before their inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the
metropolitan borough of Hampstead and most of that of Paddington,
with a total population of over 200,000. Queen's Park, built in a
detached part of Chelsea parish, is included in the account of
Paddington. Hampstead rose northward from Chalk Farm to the heath
and Finchley and, less steeply, north-eastward from Kilburn High
Road. Hampstead town encroached upon the heath, which was waste of
the medieval manor. There was roadside settlement at Kilburn and
piecemeal building elsewhere on the heath. The town's healthy
elevation attracted rich Londoners before and after its spell as a
fashionable spa in the early 18th century. Narrow and hilly streets
helped to preserve it in the 19th, as fields and parkland were
covered by mainly middle- and upper middle-class suburbs, including
Belsize Park and Swiss Cottage. The heath, protected by influential
residents, became a playground for Londoners. In the 20th century
Hampstead was also noted for its artistic and intellectual life.
Paddington, smaller but more populous, lay between Edgware Road and
Bayswater Road, which converged at Tyburn gallows near Marble Arch.
Early settlements were Paddington Green, Westbourne Green, and
Bayswater. Northern and southern halves became separated by lines
of road, canal, and railway. Systematic house-building began soon
after 1800 in Tyburnia and Bayswater, before spreading beyond the
industrial belt to form Maida Vale and a humbler district towards
Queen's Park. Parts of southern Paddington, near Hyde Park,
rivalled Belgravia, while Whiteley's stores made Westbourne Grove a
busy shopping centre. Institutions included the G.W.R. termi-nus,
St. Mary's hospital, and the Metropolitan music hall. By 1900
lodging houses and small hotels had multiplied, as had canalside
slums, which were cleared only after war damage and further decay.
Both parishes today contain residential areas that have remained
expensive and others where redevelopment has given way to
refurbishment. Hampstead retains a compact centre including
18th-century buildings, with large later houses in the avenues to
the south and west. Paddington, urbanized and with more municipal
housing, retains its ambitious layout of streets and squares, where
many stuccoed terraces s
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