Marylebone Road
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Image:Marylebone road large 2003.jpg Marylebone Road (pronounced Mar(i)-lee-bone Road) is an important thoroughfare in central London. It runs east-west from the Euston Road at Regent's Park to the A40 Westway at Paddington. The road which runs in 3 lanes in both directions, is part of the London Inner Ring Road and as such forms part of the boundary of the zone within which the London congestion charge applies.
The road was effectively London's first bypass, Construction of New Road, as it was called, began in 1756 along the northern edge of the built-up area.
As part of the Ring Road and a feeder route to the A40 (and hence the M40 motorway) (to the west) and the A5 and M1 motorway (to the north) much of the traffic leaving central London for the Midlands and the North of England travels on this road. It is frequently heavily congested.
Two of London's principal tourist attractions lie on Marylebone Road -Madame Tussaud's and the London Planetarium.
The name Marylebone originates 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.
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