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Marylebone history


Marylebone was originally an Ancient Parish formed to serve the manors of Lileston (in the west – which gives its name to modern Lisson Grove) and Tyburn in the east. The boundaries of the parish were consistent until the creation of the Metropolitan Borough which succeeded it.

Etymology

The parish took its name from its church, dedicated to St Mary . The original church was built on the bank of a small stream or “bourne”, called Tybourne or Tyburn . This stream rose further north in Hampstead, eventually running along what became Marylebone Lane .

Manors of Tyburn and Lileston

Domesday recorded eight households in each manor, implying a combined population of less than a hundred . Both manors were mentioned in the Domeday Book of 1086 .

Shifting parish church

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The Ancient Parish’s church, St Marylebone Parish Church, has been rebuilt several times at various locations within the parish . The earliest known church dedicated to St John the Evangelist was established by Barking Abbey, which held Manor of Tyburn, at an unknown date, but probably sometime in the 12th century .

Urbanisation

In 1710, John Holles, Duke of Newcastle, purchased the manor for £17,500 . His daughter and heir Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles passed it into the family of the Earl of Oxford . She and the earl commissioned the surveyor and builder John Prince to draw a master plan .

Social history

Lord’s is also home to Middlesex County Cricket Club and England and Wales Cricket Board . The Marylebone Cricket Club, for many years the governing body of world cricket, was formed in 1787 and moved to its current home at Lord’s in 1814 .

Coat of Arms

The Borough of St Marylebone was granted a coat of arms by the College of Arms in 1901 . The crest includes the Virgin Mary wearing a silver robe with a light blue mantle, holding the infant Jesus, dressed in gold . The wavy light blue bars represent the River Tyburn while the gold roses and lilies are taken from the arms of Barking Abbey, which first established the parish church .

Latter administrative history

The Metropolitan Borough inherited the boundaries of the Ancient Parish which had been fixed since at least the 12th century . Marylebone Town Hall was completed in 1920 .

20th century

Marylebone was the scene of the Balcombe Street siege in 1975 . Provisional Irish Republican Army terrorists held two people hostage for almost a week .

  

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