Belgravia

//bɛlˈɡɹeɪ.vi.ə// name

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  1. 1
    An area in the City of Westminster, central London, noted for being one of the wealthiest districts in the world (OS grid ref TQ2879).

    "Not but that Edith was very thoroughly and properly in love; still she would certainly have preferred a good house in Belgravia, to all the picturesqueness of the life which Captain Lennox described at Corfu."

  2. 2
    Other places named after Belgravia in London:; A locality in the Cabonne council area, central New South Wales, Australia.
  3. 3
    Other places named after Belgravia in London:; A neighbourhood in south-west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  4. 4
    Other places named after Belgravia in London:; A suburb of Johannesburg, Gauteng province, South Africa.
  5. 5
    Other places named after Belgravia in London:; A suburb in north Harare, Zimbabwe.

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"Not but that Edith was very thoroughly and properly in love; still she would certainly have preferred a good house in Belgravia, to all the picturesqueness of the life which Captain Lennox described at Corfu."

Etymology

After Richard Grosvenor, 2nd Marquess of Westminster, whose title was Viscount Belgrave when the area was developed in the 1820s, thus from Belgrave + -ia. The village of Belgrave, Cheshire is close to the Grosvenor family's main country seat.

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