Kilburn history

The Edgware Road was part of Watling Street, a Roman road, and has remained a major route in and out of London ever since. The village of Kilburn began as a Mediaeval version of a service station on this road. Kilburn became a fashionable spa in the 18th century because of the Kilburn Wells which produced milky-looking water which was meant to be health giving. Once Belsize had been developed nearby, developers moved to Kilburn as the next area for development, and this process of urbanisation was pushed along by the arrival of the railways in 1879.