Notes & Queries Archive
QUERY1850

Pimlico

By R. H.

In Aubrey's *Surrey*, he mentions that he went to a *Pimlico* Garden, somewhere on Bankside. Can any of your correspondents inform me of the derivation of the word "Pimlico," and why that portion of land now built on near to Buckingham House, through which the road now runs to Chelsea, is called Pimlico?

Topics: Etymology, Geography

Locations: Pimlico, Bankside, Buckingham House, Chelsea