Maida
Vale estate agents Kubie Gold Associates are pleased to bring this
information to you. We hope you find it useful.
Location and History
Maida Vale is a road in west London, and a residential district (also
covering Maida Hill) surrounding it in the City of Westminster. The
road is the section of Edgware Road (or A5) from Kilburn, near Kilburn
High Road station running south-east, past Maida Vale tube station,
through the district known as Maida Vale. Just to the east of Maida
Vale is St John's Wood and Lord's Cricket Ground. When it meets St.
John's Wood Road, Maida Vale reverts to the name Edgware Road.
The
district acquired its name from the Hero of Maida, a public house which
opened on the Edgware Road soon after the Battle of Maida, 1806. The
area is mostly residential, and often extremely affluent, consisting of
many large Edwardian mansion houses. It encompasses the Paddington
Basin, a junction of three canals with many houseboats. This area is
also known as Little Venice.
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Maida Vale was a
predominantly Jewish district, and the area contains the 1896 Spanish
& Portuguese Synagogue (a Grade II listed building) and
headquarters of the British Sephardi community. The first Prime
Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, lived within sight of this
synagogue on Warrington Crescent. The pioneer of modern computing, Alan
Turing was born a few hundred yards further down this same
road.
Its exact borders are largely a matter of opinion, but broadly speaking
streets built in white stucco close to the canal qualify as being in
Little Venice as opposed to Maida Vale. Blomfield Road, Maida Avenue,
Westbourne Terrace Road, Howley Place, Warwick Avenue, Bristol Gardens,
Clifton Villas, Clifton Gardens, Randolph Road, Randolph Crescent,
Pindock Mews, and the southern reaches of Castellain Road and Randolph
Avenue would all qualify on this basis.
Sellers of properties on the borders of these streets regard their
addresses as being in Little Venice, while buyers tend to argue that
they are in fact in Maida Vale, and thus should be cheaper. According
to "Waterscape", Little Venice is technically the point where the Grand
Union Canal and Regent's Canal meet, and Robert Browning viewed Little
Venice as the whole area at the south of Maida Vale.
The area is one of London's prime residential areas, and it is also
known for its shops and restaurants, as well as the Puppet Theatre
Barge, the Cascade Floating Art Gallery, the Waterside Café
and the Warwick Castle pub. It is possible to take canal tours from
Little Venice eastwards around Regent's Park, past London Zoo and on
towards Camden Town.
The Paddington Waterways and Maida Vale society is the Official Amenity
Society for this area, recognised by the City of Westminster - created
in the 1960’s by Lord Norwich and Colonel Peter
Flower. They strive in their footsteps to preserve and
enhance this beautiful area of Little Venice, Maida Vale and the
Paddington Waterway area, in the premier City of the World. http://www.paddingtonwaterways.com/
This
area guide is brought to you by Kubie Gold Associates, local Maida Vale
estate agent.
Transport Links
The area of Maida Vale and Little Venice are served by two London
Underground Stations, Maida Vale and Warwick Avenue, both of
which are on the Bakerloo Line.
Paddington Recreation Ground has a modern, well-equipped gym, wide
range of exercise classes plus a variety of other facilities, which
ensure there is something for everyone. There is on site car parking
which is free after 6pm Monday – Friday so there is no excuse
for not popping in after work! http://www.westminster.gov.uk/leisureandculture/sports/padrec.cfm
Little Venice is an area situated north-west of Paddington station. Its
name arises from the canal junction at its centre, formed by the
western end of the Regent's Canal and the Paddington arm of the Grand
Union Canal, resembling the famous canals of Venice.
The Grand Union Canal in England is part of the British canal system.
Its main line connects the two largest cities in England, London and
Birmingham and stretches for 220 km (137 miles) and has 166 locks. It
has arms to places including Leicester, Slough, Aylesbury, Wendover and
Northampton. http://www.canalmuseum.org.uk/boat-trip.htm
Canalway Cavalcade is a major event organised by IWA each year since
1983, nowadays always over the early May Bank Holiday weekend. It
combines a boat rally with a trade show and a wide range of activities
and entertainments and claims the title of London's premier waterway
event. http://london.waterways.org.uk/cavalcade/index.htm
Maida Vale is also home to some of BBC National Radio's Recording and
Broadcast Studios (specialising in music & drama) , used
primarily by BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, & BBC Radio 3. The
studios were also home to most of John Peel's BBC Radio 1 Peel
Sessions, a regular slot in which a current popular band would record a
set of four songs exclusively for the show.
Kubie
Gold Associates is a Maida Vale estate agency and we hope you find this
information useful.
Thank
you for reading this information brought to you by estate agent in
Maida Vale, Kubie Gold Associates.
Kubie Gold Associates strives for the utmost in both truthfulness and
accuracy. No warranty, endorsement, legal sanction or other
representation is or will be officially given to any information or
external link provided by this site. Information and external links are
provided purely as a convenience. Should any content from area guide
information or an external link prove questionable, please contact us.
