Hyde Park & Kensington Gardens
Six hundred acres of royal parkland begin a few minutes from the front door — the fountains and Victorian arcades of the Italian Gardens sit at the Bayswater end, closest to us.
The area
Paddington & Hyde Park
Royal parkland at one end of the street, canal boats at the other, and the Elizabeth line in between.
Chilworth Court stands on a quiet stucco-fronted street in Bayswater W2, in the grid of Georgian and early-Victorian terraces laid out behind Hyde Park. It is a residential corner of central London: garden squares, porticoes, a handful of neighbourhood shops.
Walk south and you are in Kensington Gardens within a few minutes. Walk north-west and you reach the canal at Little Venice. Paddington Station — Elizabeth line, Heathrow Express and three Underground lines — is roughly six minutes on foot, which is what makes a long stay here so easy.
Highlights
What is on the doorstep
The Serpentine
The lake that splits the park in two, with rowing boats, the Lido swimmers, waterside cafés and the Serpentine galleries on the southern shore.
Little Venice
Where the Regent's Canal meets the Grand Union: painted narrowboats, canalside cafés and waterbuses that run the towpath route east to Camden.
Paddington Basin & Merchant Square
The regenerated canal quarter behind the station — a floating pocket park, waterside terraces and Thomas Heatherwick's curling Rolling Bridge.
Paddington Station
Brunel's great iron train shed, six minutes on foot, with the Elizabeth line, Heathrow Express and three Underground lines — and the Paddington Bear statue on the concourse.
Marble Arch & Speakers' Corner
A walk along the north of the park brings you to Speakers' Corner, Marble Arch and the top of Oxford Street for the shops.
Eat & drink
Long-standing local tables
The Victoria
Strathearn Place, W2
A listed Victorian corner pub between the building and the park, all mirrored mahogany and open fires, with a proper dining room upstairs.
The Summerhouse
Blomfield Road, Little Venice
Seafood and rosé on a canalside terrace right at the water's edge — the classic warm-evening booking in this part of London.
Darcie & May Green
Paddington Basin, W2
Breakfast and brunch aboard a brightly painted floating barge moored in the basin, a short canal walk from the station.
The Prince Alfred
Formosa Street, Maida Vale
One of London's finest surviving Victorian pub interiors, with its original snug partitions kept intact — ten minutes north through Little Venice.
Opening hours change — reception is happy to check and book a table for you.
Getting around
Six minutes from Paddington
Elizabeth line
From Paddington to Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road and the City in minutes, and straight through to Canary Wharf without changing.
Heathrow Express
Non-stop from Paddington to Heathrow in about 15 minutes — the reason many long-stay guests choose this address.
Underground
Bakerloo, Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines at Paddington; Lancaster Gate and Bayswater are also within a short walk.
On foot
Hyde Park in a few minutes, Little Venice in about ten, Notting Hill and Marylebone comfortably walkable.
Stay here
Make Bayswater your base
Twenty self-catering apartments across seven layouts, from studios to three bedrooms — all within a few minutes of the park and the station.