Marylebone Road

The Marylebone Road is an important thoroughfare in central London. It runs from west to east, starting from the A40, exit at Paddington, until the road is called from the Regent's Park, Euston Road. The street that runs with three lanes in both directions, is part of the London Inner Ring Road and is part of the boundary of the London congestion charge, in which the motor vehicle drivers have to pay toll.

The Marylebone Road is a few miles to the West itself off the M40 motorway and has a junction with Kilburn Road ( A5), which has a connection with the beginning of the M1 motorway. Most drivers use the road to get from central London to the Midlands and the North of England. Therefore, the road is often clogged.

Two of London's main attractions are located on the Marylebone Road: Madame Tussauds and the London Planetarium.

  • 2.1 Main lines
  • 2.2 Metro Stations (from west to east)

History

Marylebone is a district of the City of Westminster. The name derives from a " St Mary's " Church (now St Marylebone Parish Church) here, which stands on the banks of the small creek " Tybourne ". The area was therefore called St Mary at the bourne what smoothening to Marylebone later.

Devonshire Terrace

Part of the Marylebone Road, which was given its present name in 1862, originally was known as the Devonshire Terrace and began in the immediate vicinity of St Marylebone Parish Church, now Marylebone Road is located at number 17.

In the local house number 1 Devonshire Terrace lived 1839-1851 the writer Charles Dickens ( 1812-1870 ), who wrote six novels here. This house now bears supposedly the house number 15-17, where the question arises, how this information is compatible with the free-standing church in point 17.

If the records of Daphne du Maurier are not misleading, probably lived at the same time and exactly in the same building in which Dickens lived from 1839, later the writer George du Maurier ( 1834-1896 ) as a child, at least in the years 1838 and 1839, and in the year of Dickens ' collection was born there his sister Isabella ( see also: List of residential addresses of George du Maurier ).

St Marylebone Parish Church

Big names are connected with the Church itself. Here the poet Lord Byron (1788-1824) was baptized in 1788 and buried in the same year on the adjoining cemetery Anglican priest Charles Wesley (1707-1788). Even Charles Dickens ' son was baptized in the church and the baptismal ceremony is in his novel Dombey and Son ( OT: Dombey and Son) described.

Nearby stations

Main lines

Metro stations (from west to east)

  • Edgware Road
  • Paddington
  • Marylebone
  • Baker Street
  • Regent 's Park
  • Great Portland Street
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