'Marylebone' means the stream of St Mary, after a church by the Tyburn.
Villagers near the Tyburn gallows, eager to distance themselves from them, began calling their hamlet St Mary-burne after their new church of 1400; burna is Anglo-Saxon for a small stream. Maryburne is first recorded in 1453. In the 17th century a 'le' crept in, under the influence of names like Mary-le-Bow. The station opened in 1907 as Great Central and was renamed Marylebone in 1917.