Marylebone Marylebone Malden Category="Districts of London"Category="Westminster"

Marylebone
OS Grid Reference: TQ285815
Rail Station Code: MYB
Administration
Borough:Westminster
County:Greater London
Region:Greater London
Nation:England
Other
Ceremonial County:Greater London
Traditional County:Middlesex
Post Office and Telephone
Post town:LONDON
Postcode:W1
Dialling Code:020

Marylebone (sometimes written St. Marylebone or Mary-le-bone and pronounced Mar(i)-lee-bone) is an area in the City of Westminster North of Oxford Street and South of Regents Park. Edgware Road forms the Western boundary. Portland Place forms the Eastern boundary with the area known as Fitzrovia.

Marylebone gets its name from a church, called "St Mary's", that was built on the bank of a small Stream or "bourne" called the tybourne, in an area named after the stream Tyburn. The church and the surrounding area later became known as St Mary at the bourne, which over time became shortened to its present form Marylebone. It is a common misunderstanding that the name is a corruption of Marie la bonne.

The Metropolitan Borough of St Marylebone was a Metropolitan borough of the County of London between 1899 and 1965 when it was merged with the Metropolitan Borough of Paddington and the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster to form the London Borough of Westminster.

Such place-names in the neighborhood as Cavendish Square and Portland Place reflect the Dukes' of Portland landholdings and Georgian-era developments there.

Today the area is mostly residential. However, centred around Marylebone High Street and Marylebone Lane, Howard de Walden Estates Ltd is keeping an eye to maintain a mix of stylish and fashionable shops and restaurants of relevance to the locals, in what it calls the Marylebone Village. It is also notable for its Arab population on its far western border around Edgware Road.

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