Bayswater

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Bayswater is a place in the City of Westminster, in London.

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Bayswater is one of London's most cosmopolitan areas, with the significant diversity of the local population added to by having one of London's biggest concentration of hotels. Notably, there is a significant Arab population, a large number of Americans, a substantial Greek community attracted by London's Greek Orthodox Cathedral and the area is also a centre of London's Brazilian community.

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The social tenor of the area tends to be young and Upper-Middle Class. Although parts of the area had slipped down the social ladder during the 20th Century, many of its private tenements have moved upmarket, while much of the areas council housing was sold off in the late 1980s and early 1990s as part of the Building Stable Communities policy of Westminster City Council under its then leader Dame Shirley Porter.

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Architecturally, the biggest part of the area is made up of Victorian mansion blocks, mostly, although not exclusively, divided up into flats. There are also purpose built apartment blocks dating from the inter-war period as well as more recent developments, and a there is large Council Estate, the 800 flat Hallfield Estate, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and now largely sold off. There are some garden squares in the area.

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Queensway and Westbourne Grove are busy High Streets, with a very large number of ethnic restaurants.

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With a population density of 17,500 people per square kilometre, Bayswater is one of London's most heavily settled areas.

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Nearest places:

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• Paddington
• Notting Hill
• St John's Wood
• Knightsbridge
• Kilburn

Nearest tube stations:

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• Bayswater tube station
• Queensway tube station
• Royal Oak tube station
• NOTE: In reference to the Bayswater river, refer to the River Westbourne for more information.
Bayswater: Places of interest ►



 

Cosmopolitan: Derived from Greek cosmos (the world) and polis (city), cosmopolitan describes something influenced by many cultures from around the world. Applied to people, a cosmopolitan is someone who has adopted a taste for cultures besides the one he or she was born into; thus living both a local and global ...

Arab: The Arabs (Arabic: عرب ʻarab) are an originally Arabian ethnicity widespread in the Middle East and North Africa....

Americans: REDIRECT American...