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PADDINGTON.
The Parish of Paddington, in the County of Middlesex,
extends Northward from the Marble Arch to Kilburn Gate; and
Westward from the Marble Arch to Kensington Palace Gardens;
it is bounded on the North by Willesden; on the South by
St. George's, Hanover Square, and St. Margaret, Westminster; on
the East by Marylebone ; and on the West by Kensington and
St. Luke, Chelsea; its length from North to South being nearly
Two Miles, and its superficial extent about 1,280 acres. The
Parish is within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan Board of
Works, to which Board it returns One Member; and its management
is vested in Seventy-Two Elected Vestrymen, who meet at
the Vestry Hall, Harrow Road, on the first and third Tuesdays in
each month (August excepted) for the transaction of their ordinary
business. For parochial purposes the Parish is divided into Four
Wards, the boundaries of which are as follow ; viz.:—
WARD
ONE.
All that portion of the Parish which lies within
a line drawn along the centre of Harrow Road
from the point at which the same intersects
the boundary of the said Parish, and thence along
the centre of such Road to a point directly opposite
the centre of the Road on Westbourne Terrace
Bridge, and thence along the centre of such Road
and of Westbourne Terrace, to the centre of
Bishop's Road, and thence Westward along the
centre of Bishop's Road and Westbourne Grove to
the West boundary of the said Parish at the point
where the same intersects the centre of Westbourne
Grove, and thence Northward continuously along
the said boundary to the point mentioned at the
commencement of the foregoing description.