make way for two large housing estates mainly based on meeting social housing needs: the Brunel estate (1970s), and the Wessex Gardens estate (1978), named for the fictional county of many of Hardy's works. In Wessex Gardens the first of 300 homes (dwellings) planned for 1,116 people were ready in 1978. Westmead was built, as 148 homes in 1974, to replace a relatively low-quality segment of housing. References External links Map of the ecclesiastical parish of St Stephen with St Luke Paddington in the Diocese of London: the remaining church being St Stephen's, Westbourne Park. The Church of England Areas of London Districts of the City of Westminster