Needham Road was formerly Norfolk Road.
By 1865 terraces lined Westbourne Grove, Westbourne Park Road, Artesian Road, and an eastward extension of Talbot Road. The western section of Westbourne Grove lay in Kensington until 1900, when its north side was transferred to Paddington. This included Norfolk Terrace west of Norfolk Road (Needham Road), where Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, a philologist and nephew of Emperor Napoleon III, had a house.
