Belgravia

Meanings

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

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.