Bayswater. Bayswater is an area within the City of Westminster and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London. It is a built-up district located 2.5 miles west-northwest of Charing Cross, bordering the north of Kensington Gardens and having a population density of 17,500 per square kilometre. Bayswater is one of London's most cosmopolitan areas: a diverse local population is augmented by a high concentration of hotels. In addition to the English, there are many other nationalities. Notable ethnic groups include Greeks, French, Americans, Brazilians, Italians, Irish, Arabs, and many others. The streets and garden squares are lined with Victorian stucco terraces, mostly now subdivided into flats and boarding houses. Properties range from apartments to small studio flats. There are also purpose-built apartment blocks dating from the inter-war period as well as more recent developments, and a large council estate, the 650-flat Hallfield Estate, designed by Sir Denys Lasdun and now largely sold off. Queensway and Westbourne Grove are its busiest main streets, both having many international ethnic-cuisine restaurants. The land now called Bayswater belonged to the Abbey of Westminster when the Domesday Book was compiled; the most considerable tenant under the abbot was Bainiardus, probably the same Norman associate of the Conqueror who gave his name to Baynard's Castle. The descent of the land held by him cannot be clearly traced: but his name long remained attached to part of it; and, as late as the year 1653, a parliamentary grant of the Abbey or Chapter lands describes the common field at Paddington as being near a place commonly called Baynard's Watering. In 1720, the lands of the Dean and Chapter are described to be the occupation of Alexander Bond, of Bear's Watering, in the same parish of Paddington. It may therefore fairly be concluded that this portion of ground, always remarkable for its springs of excellent water, once supplied water to Baynard, his household, or his cattle; that the memory of his name was preserved in the neighbourhood for six centuries; and that his watering-place now takes the abbreviated name Bayswater. Damon Albarn. Brett Anderson. Mike Atherton. J. M. Barrie, playwright and novelist, and his wife, Mary, lived at 100 Bayswater Road. Tony Blair. Winston Churchill. Richard Cobden, lived on Westbourne Terrace. A. J. Cronin. Umaru Dikko, former Nigerian minister of transportation. Tim Dry has lived in Bayswater since the early 1980s. Ade Edmondson. Roger C. Field, inventor and designer whose first home was flat D, 15 Cleveland Square. Alexander Fleming. Mariella Frostrup. Ferdinand de Géramb. Reginald Gray, Irish artist, lived with his wife Catherine at 105a Queensway from 1958 to 1963. J. B. Gunn, physicist, lived with his mother, the Freudian psychoanalyst L. F. Gunn/Grey-Clarke, at 14 Durham Terrace, in the 1940s. Alice Hart-Davis. Paul Johnson. Dylan Jones. Jonathan King. Keira Knightley. Guglielmo Marconi, the pioneer of wireless communication, lived at 71 Hereford Road between 1896 and 1897 with his mother upon arrival in England. Rik Mayall. Stella McCartney. Dermot O'Leary. Irfan Orga, exile and writer, lived at 29, 35 and 21 Inverness Terrace from 1942 until the mid-fifties, publishing his memoirs Portrait of a Turkish Family in 1950. Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal. Jennifer Saunders. Paul Simonon. Sting occupied a basement flat at 28A Leinster Square in the late seventies during the formative years of The Police. Trudie Styler, now his wife, lived in a basement flat two doors down. Georgina Castle Smith, children's writer born and bred in Bayswater. Luigi Sturzo, Catholic priest and politician, and one of the fathers of Christian democracy and a founder of the Italian People's Party. John Tenniel, artist and cartoonist, was born at 22 Gloucester Place, New Road, Bayswater on 28 February 1820. The Bayswater area elects a total of six councillors to Westminster City Council, three each from the eponymous Bayswater Ward, and from Lancaster Gate Ward. Following the 2018 Westminster City Council elections, five members belong to the Conservative Party and one to the Labour Party, with the Bayswater Ward being a split-party marginal and Lancaster Gate being a fully Conservative-held ward. For education in Bayswater, see List of schools in the City of Westminster. Paddington. Notting Hill. St John's Wood. Knightsbridge. Little Venice. Kensington. The stations within the district are Bayswater and Queensway. Other nearby stations include Paddington, Royal Oak and Lancaster Gate. Whiteleys Shopping Centre.