Marylebone Road
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Marylebone Road (/ˈmɑːrlɪbən/ MAR-li-bən) is an important thoroughfare in central London, within the City of Westminster. It runs east–west from the Euston Road at Regent's Park to the A40 Westway at Paddington. The road which runs in three lanes in both directions, is part of the London Inner Ring Road and as such forms part of the boundary of the zone within which the London congestion charge applies.
As part of the ring road and a feeder route to the A40 (and hence the
.History
The road was effectively London's first bypass. Construction of the New Road, as it was called, began in 1756 along the northern edge of the built-up area.[1] In 1857, the road's name was changed from New Road, with sections, west to east, renamed Marylebone Road, Euston Road[2] and Pentonville Road.
The name
The crossroads of Marylebone Road and Baker Street was historically known as Marylebone Circus, which is still its unofficial name.[3]
Tourism
One of London's principal
Transport
Mainline stations
- Marylebone
- Paddington
Tube stations
- Edgware Road (Bakerloo Line)
- Edgware Road (Circle, District and Hammersmith & City Lines)
- Marylebone
- Paddington
- Baker Street
- Regent's Park
- Great Portland Street
Buses
Bus routes 18, 27, 30, 74, 205 and 453 serve all or part of the road.
References
- ^ CBRD – Histories – Ringways – Early plans Archived 19 March 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Euston Road". UCL Bloomsbury Project. UCL. Retrieved 17 January 2014.
- ^ "Forgotten London - Marylebone Circus". Hyde Park Now. Retrieved 20 July 2019.