page_title: Westbourne Gardens
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Westbourne Gardens / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Westbourne Park on an 1870s Ordnance Survey map
context_page_description: Westbourne Gardens, known as Westbourne Park until the late nineteenth century, are gardens on a triangular plot in Paddington, London, in the City of Westminster. The gardens are open to the public and maintained by the City of Westminster.
context_section_description: Westbourne Gardens is one of eleven streets in the Westbourne area of Paddington named after the River Westbourne that once flowed through the area above ground but was culverted and enclosed in the nineteenth century.
caption: Westbourne Park on an 1870s Ordnance Survey map.
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