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Notting Hill and Bayswater

North of the Royal Parks and once the estate of the Bishop of London's trustees, Bayswater is now a bustling hub of tourist restaurants, hotels, and high street shopping. To the west is the more enticing Notting Hill, a trendsetting square mile of ethnicity, music, and markets, with lots of restaurants to see and be seen in, as well as younger, more egalitarian modern-art galleries. The style-watching media here dubbed the local residents Notting Hillbillies. The whole area has mushroomed around one of the world's great antiques markets, Portobello Road. A Saturday morning spent here is almost obligatory, and people travel from all boroughs of the capital to soak up its chic, multicultural vibe, where the cool urban crowd meets and melds with the posh people of West London.