Norfolk Square

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Houses in Norfolk Square. Londra Norfolk Square September 2009 - panoramio.jpg
Houses in Norfolk Square.
Norfolk Square gardens. Norfolk Square Garden in the City of Westminster, London in spring 2013 (3).JPG
Norfolk Square gardens.
Blue plaque for the scientist Hertha Ayrton. HERTHA AYRTON 1854-1923 Physicist lived here 1903-1923.jpg
Blue plaque for the scientist Hertha Ayrton.

Norfolk Square is a rectangular garden square in Paddington in Central London. Located in the City of Westminster, it is part of the Tyburnia district north of Hyde Park. It runs east to west from London Street to Norfolk Place. Praed Street and Sussex Gardens are directly parallel to it north and south respectively.

The street was developed on the site of a former waterworks of the Grand Union Canal. It was one of three located close to what became Paddington Station, another of them becoming Talbot Square. [1] It was developed in the early Victorian era, and along with Talbot Square became a residential location for the wealthy. At the eastern end was All Saints' Church, built in 1847, but later demolished and replaced with the more modern Edna House apartments. [2] At the western end of the square, across London Street, is the Sawyer's Arms pub.

Numbers 2-22, terraces of 1840s stuccoed housing, are now Grade II listed [3] as are the slightly later numbers 24–42. [4] Notable residents have included the scientist Hertha Ayrton who live there from 1903 to 1923 and is now commemorated with a blue plaque. [5]

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References

  1. The London Encyclopaedia p.662
  2. "Paddington: Tyburnia | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  3. "2-22, NORFOLK SQUARE W2, Non Civil Parish - 1225255 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  4. "24-42, NORFOLK SQUARE W2, Non Civil Parish - 1225256 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  5. "Hertha Ayrton | Physicist | Blue Plaques". English Heritage. Retrieved 6 May 2023.

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