Fact 140: Where does the name Paddington come from?

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Fact 140: Where does the name Paddington come from?


The Bear is named helpfully after the station,
The station is interestingly named after an anglo saxon land owner called Lord Padda, Lord Padda is in the Doomsday book (on page 102=CII) because he owned a place called Brampton, Suffolk.

He also had land in London however I can't find any evidence except, that according to the Devonshire London (Paddington) Newspaper (and a couple of other websites), Padda owned some land in London near where Marble Arch is today and the small bit of land is called a turn, and turn is old English meaning a small bit of land.
The turn Lord Padda owned was called a turn and known as Padda's turn and the name was overtime Padda's turn morphed into Paddington and this is were the name for the station came from.


















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