BAYSWATER, a hamlet in the parish of PADDINGTON,
Holborn division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE,
county of MIDDLESEX, 1 mile from Cumberlandgate,
London, on the Uxbridge road. The population
is returned with the parish. Bayswater, which may
now be considered as a suburb to the metropolis, is
desirable as a place of residence from its vicinity to
Kensington Gardens, which are situated on the south:
it is lighted with gas, and the inhabitants are supplied
with water from a reservoir originally constructed for
the use of Kensington Palace, and subsequently granted
to the proprietors of Chelsea water-works, on the condition
that the supply to the palace should be regularly
continued. Sir John Hill, M.D., a voluminous writer,
resided here many years, and cultivated the plants from
which he prepared his medicines, on the spot now occupied
by the proprietor of the Bayswater tea-gardens. An
episcopal chapel was built by Mr. Edward Orme, in 1818.