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((Short description|Street in Paddington, west central London))
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[[File:Praed Street - geograph.org.uk - 711973.jpg|thumb|Praed Street junction with South Wharf Road in February 1983]]
[[File:Hilton London Paddington.jpg|thumb|Hilton Hotel on Praed Street]]
'''Praed Street''' (((IPAc-en|p|r|eɪ|d))) is a street in [[Paddington]], west London, in the [[City of Westminster]], most notable for being the location of [[London Paddington station]].<ref>((cite book
  | last = Humphreys
  | first = Rob 
  | authorlink = 
  |author2=Judith Bamber
  | title = London
  | publisher = Rough Guides
  | year = 2003
  | location = 
  | pages = [https://archive.org/details/london__00humprich/page/330 330]–331
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  | quote = Praed Street Paddington station.
  | isbn = 1-84353-093-7))
</ref> It runs south-westerly, straight from [[Edgware Road]] to Craven Road, Spring Street and Eastbourne Terrace. East of Norfolk Place, the street is [[One-way traffic|one-way]] eastbound; westbound traffic has to use [[Sussex Gardens]] and Norfolk Place, and this includes the eight London bus routes that serve the street: the [[London Buses route 7|7]], [[London Buses route 23|23]], [[London Buses route 27|27]], [[London Buses route 36|36]], [[London Buses route 205|205]], N7, N27 and N205.

==History==
Praed Street was originally laid out in the early 19th century, being built up in 1828. It was named after [[William Praed]], chairman of the company which built the canal basin which lies just to the north.<ref name="histparl-william-praed">((cite book
 | url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/praed-william-1747-1833
 | title = PRAED, William (1747–1833), of Tyringham, Bucks. and Trevethoe, nr. St. Ives, Cornw
 | first = R. G.
 | last = Thorne
 | work = The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790–1820
 | editor = R. Thorne
 | year = 1986
 | accessdate = 16 September 2015
))</ref>

In 1893 plans were put forward by the Edgware Road and Victoria Railway company to build an [[Edgware Road Tube schemes|underground railway along the Edgware Road]] which included the construction of a Tube station at Praed Street. The scheme was rejected by Parliament and the line was never built.<ref name="losttube">((cite book|last=Badsey-Ellis|first=Antony|title=London's Lost Tube Schemes|publisher=Capital Transport|year=2005|isbn=1-85414-293-3))</ref>

==Overview==
On the north west side of the street are Paddington Station and the [[Hilton London Paddington|Great Western Hotel]], the [[Royal Mail]] Western depot, and [[St Mary's Hospital (London)|St Mary's Hospital]]. The south east side is predominantly retail but includes the frontage for [[Paddington tube station (Bakerloo, Circle and District lines)|Paddington]] [[London Underground|Underground]] ([[Bakerloo line|Bakerloo]], [[Circle line (London Underground)|Circle]] and [[District line|District]] lines) station. At the far north east end, on the north west side, is a prominent 1980s extension to the [[Hilton London Metropole]] Hotel. 

[[Morocco]] maintains a consulate at number 97-99.<ref>((cite news | url= https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263519/LDL_December_2013.pdf | title= The London Diplomatic List | date=14 December 2013))</ref>

== In literature and film  ==
[[Solar Pons]], a pastiche of [[Sherlock Holmes]] created by [[August Derleth]], had his home at 7B Praed Street.<ref>[[August Derleth|Derleth, A.]] (1928) ''The Adventure of the Norcross Riddle'', reprinted in '''''[[In Re: Sherlock Holmes]]''''' ([[Mycroft & Moran]], 1945)</ref>

American poet [[Richard Hugo]] wrote the poem "Walking Praed Street", which first appeared in his book of poems, ''The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir''. The poem's first two lines are said((bywhom|date=September 2015)) to be two of the greatest American lines ever written: "I've walked this street in far too many towns./ The weather, briefly: in Salerno, rain."

Praed Street appeared in the political thriller novel ''[[House of Cards (novel)|House of Cards]]'', and subsequently in its [[House of Cards (British TV series)|television adaptation]], as an accommodation address set up by main protagonist Francis Urquhart as part of a plot to force the resignation of the sitting Prime Minister.<ref>((cite book |last1=Dobbs |first1=Michael |title=House of Cards |date=2013 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-4711-2852-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R77cIm_WAwoC&q=praed+street+w2&pg=PT157 |language=en))</ref>

Praed Street is the setting for the 1928 novel ''[[The Murders in Praed Street]]'' by [[John Rhode]].

Praed Street is mentioned in [[Ira Levin]]'s ''[[Rosemary's Baby (novel)|Rosemary's Baby]]''. Somebody compares a house there with the house ([[Bramford]] in New York) where the protagonists live: "There was a house in London, on Praed Street, in which five separate brutal murders took place within sixty years."

In ''The Dark Labyrinth'' by [[Lawrence Durrell]], a character complains he 'could not be carried away by fairy tales of the Second Coming written in this Praed Street vein' (chapter three).

==See also==
* [[List of eponymous roads in London]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==External links==
((Commons category-inline|Praed Street))

[[Category:Streets in the City of Westminster]]
[[Category:Paddington]]

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