What is "paddington"

Paddington is an area within the City of Westminster, in central London. Formerly a metropolitan borough, it was integrated with Westminster and Greater London in 1965. Three important landmarks of the district are Paddington station, designed by the celebrated engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel and opened in 1847; St Mary's Hospital; and Paddington Green Police Station (the most important high-security police station in the United Kingdom).

A major project called Paddington Waterside aims to regenerate former railway and canal land between 1998 and 2018, and the area is seeing many new developments.

Paddington is an area of the City of Westminster, London.

It may also refer to:

• Metropolitan Borough of Paddington, a historic sub-division of the County of London
  • London Paddington station, a major railway station in London
  • Paddington Bridge or Bishop's Bridge, a road bridge in London
• Paddington, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney, Australia
  • Electoral district of Paddington (New South Wales)
• Paddington, Queensland, a suburb of Brisbane, Australia
  • Electoral district of Paddington (Queensland)
• Paddington, a previous name of Gudarra, Western Australia, an abandoned Goldfields town
• RAF codename for Souk-el-Khemis Airfield, Tunisia, used circa May 1943

• Bert Paddington (born 1881), English footballer with Southampton and Brighton & Hove Albion
• Paddington Mhondoro (1986–2015), Zimbabwean cricketer

• Paddington Bear, a fictional character in children's literature
  • Paddington (1975 TV series), the first TV series to feature Paddington Bear
  • ''Paddington Bear ''(1989 TV series), a 1989 TV series
  • The Adventures of Paddington Bear, a 1997 TV series
  • Paddington (film), a 2014 film based on the fictional character Paddington Bear
• The Paddingtons, a British Indie Rock band, from Hull
• 4.50 from Paddington, a novel by Agatha Christie
• Paddington Gold Mine, a gold mine in Western Australia

Paddington was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Paddington district of London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The constituency was created for the February 1974 general election, partially replacing the previous Paddington North and Paddington South constituencies, and abolished for the 1983 general election. A Paddington borough constituency has three times been recommended during early stages of Boundary Commission inquiries, only to be altered before the final report was issued.

Paddington Bear is a series of British animated shorts based on the Paddington Bear book series by Michael Bond produced by FilmFair. This was the first television series based on the popular children's book Paddington Bear. In the United States it was usually shown on pay television as filler in between programmes. Its narrator was actor Michael Hordern. The series has a very distinctive art style. Paddington himself is a stop-motion animated puppet who moves within a 3-dimensional space and interacts with 2-dimensional animated drawings of the human characters, buildings, etc.

Paddington is a 2014 British-French family comedy film directed by Paul King, written by King and Hamish McColl, and produced by David Heyman. Based on Paddington Bear by Michael Bond, the film stars Ben Whishaw as the voice of the title character, along with Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi and Nicole Kidman in live-action roles. The film was co-produced by the French company StudioCanal and the British company Heyday Films. It was released in the United Kingdom on 28 November 2014 and grossed $265.3 million worldwide on a €38.5 million budget. It received an Empire Award nomination for Best British Film.