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Introduction.
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 the detached portion of St. Luke,
Chelsea; its length from North to South being nearly Two Miles,
and its superficial extent about 1,280 acres.
In 1855 the Vestry of Paddington was reconstituted as the
Local Authority of the Parish by the Metropolis Local Management
Act (18 and 19 Victoria, cap. 120), and as one of the
Metropolitan Local Authorities it returns Two Members to the
Metropolitan Board of Works.
The Vestry consists of Seventy-two Elected Members and the
Vicar of Paddington, who is ex-officio Chairman of the Vestry.
The ordinary meetings of the Vestry are held at the Vestry Hall,
Harrow Road, Paddington Green, on the first and third Tuesdays
in each month, the third Tuesday in August and the first Tuesday
in September excepted.
Paddington is divided into Four Wards, as follows, viz.:—
WARD No. 1:—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,