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Marylebone (sometimes written St. Marylebone or Mary-le-bone) is a London borough roughly between Regent's Park and Oxford Street.

Marylebone gets its name from a church, called "St Marys", that was built on the bank of a small stream or "bourne" called the tybourne, in an area named after the stream Tyburn the church and the surrounding area later became known as St Mary at the bourne, which over time became shortened to its present form Marylebone.

Nearest places:

• City of Westminster
• Soho
• Bloomsbury
• St John's Wood
• Paddington

Nearest tube stations:

• Baker Street tube station
• Great Portland Street tube station
• Marylebone tube station
• Regent's Park tube station
• Warren Street tube station

Nearest railway station:

• Marylebone railway station

Nearby places of interest:

• Marylebone High Street
• Madame Tussaud's
• University of Westminster
• Harley Street
• Regent's Park

External links

• Map
• Description and history of St Marylebone from 1868 Gazetteer
• Description and history of St Marylebone from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica