Maida Vale
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Place= Maida Vale | Borough= Westminster | Traditional= Middlesex | Constituency= Regent's Park and Kensington North | PostTown= LONDON | PostCode= W9 | DiallingCode= 020 | GridReference= TQ255825 | Latitude= 51.52740572722158 | Longitude= -0.1899275440608259 | GLA= West Central Londonfor the suburb of Perth, Western Australia, see Maida Vale, Western Australia
Maida Vale is a road in north-west London, and a district surrounding it. The road starts in Kilburn, near Kilburn High Road station as a continuation of Kilburn High Road. It goes south-east, past Maida Vale tube station, through the district known as Maida Vale. To the east is St John's Wood and Lord's Cricket Ground. When it meets St. John's Wood Road, Maida Vale becomes the 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, 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 2 listed building).
Maida Vale is also home to a BBC Recording and Broadcast Studio, used primarily by BBC Radio 1. The studio was also home to John Peel's Peel Sessions, a regular slot in which a current popular band would play a set exclusively for the show. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based here from 1958 until the Workshop was shut down in 1998. Their pioneering Delaware synthesiser took its name from the studio's Delaware Road address. The studio is nicknamed "Maida Vegas" by Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe when he uses the studio for his show.
Maida Vale tube station was opened on 1915 June 06, on the Bakerloo Line*Newspad (local publication covering the area and its surrounds)* BBC Radio Resources - Maida Vale
* BBC Radio 1 - Keeping it Peel
* MultiMap centered on Maida Vale
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