Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Paddington

Paddington.-- parl. bor., par., and terminus of the Great Western Railway, Middlesex, in W. of London, 1251 ac., pop. 107,218; Paddington returns 2 members to Parliament (2 divisions - North and South, 1 member for each division); it was made a parl. bor. in 1885.- 2.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parliamentary borough"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Paddington Vest/CP/AP       Middlesex AncC
Place: Paddington

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