Pimlico, Middlesex

Historical Description

Pimlico, a section of St George Hanover Square parish, Westminster, Middlesex, extending from Buckingham Gate to Chelsea, around a convergence of railways, 3 miles SW by W of St Paul's, London. It formerly was all open fields belonging to the Grosvenors; it now is all a compact portion of the metropolis, with many magnificent edifices, fashionable squares, streets, and places. It contains Buckingham Palace, Belgrave Square, Eaton Square, Chester Square, Ebury Square, Eccleston Square, Warwick Square, and Wilton Crescent; and it also contains Victoria railway station, whence railway communication goes in all directions, into the city, across the Thames, and into the country. It is in the Metropolitan S.W. Town Postal District. Campbell the poet lived in Victoria Square, and Wynne the engraver lived and Mrs Radcliffe died in Stafford Bow. See also LONDON and WESTMINSTER.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pimlico from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Pimlico)

Land and Property

A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.

Maps

Online maps of Pimlico are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)