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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
(the third Tuesday in August, and the first Tuesday in September
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 Grovo to
the West boundary of the said Parish at the point
where the same intersects the centre of Westbourne
Grove, and thence Northward continuously a long
the said boundary to the point mentioned at the
commencement of the foregoing description.