Kilburn Lane
Kilburn Lane is a street in Northwest London which runs through
North Kensington, London and Kilburn, London. It's route marks the boundary between the City of Westminster and the London Borough of Brent
.
To the east it continues into South Kilburn as Carlton Vale. At the western end the street curves southwards until it meets Harrow Road, becoming Ladbroke Grove and continuing across the Grand Union Canal.
It is a historic road, marking a route from the old village of Kensal to
Queens Park Rangers which was founded there in the 1880s), but in the twentieth century this name has come to refer to the area north of Kilburn Lane centred on Queen's Park tube station.[2]
At the junction with Harrow Road the
Victorian West Kilburn Baptist Church.[3]
References
Bibliography
- Bebbington, Gillian. London Street Names. Batsford, 1972.
- Cockburn, J. S., King, H. P. F. & McDonnell, K. G. T. & A History of the County of Middlesex. Institute of Historical Research, 1989.
- Cherry, Bridget & Pevsner, Nikolaus. London 3: North West. Yale University Press, 2002.
- Crabb, Steve. Queen's Park: A History. The History Press, 2022.
- Hibbert, Christopher Weinreb, Ben, Keay, John & Keay, Julia. The London Encyclopaedia. Pan Macmillan, 2011.
51°32′00″N 0°12′42″W / 51.53341°N 0.21175°W
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