Maida Vale

Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	Maps for TQ255825
Administration
London borough:	Westminster
County level:	Greater London
Region:	London
Nation:	England
Other
Ceremonial county:	Greater London
Historic county:	Middlesex
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Media
ITV franchise:	ITV London
BBC region:	BBC London
BBC Local Radio:	BBC London 94.9
Post office and telephone
Post town:	LONDON
Postal district:	W9
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Regent's Park and Kensington North
London Assembly:	West Central London
European Parliament:	London

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 British national grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references commonly used in Great Britain, different from using latitude or longitude. ... The administrative area of Greater London contains 32 London Boroughs, of which 12 (plus the City of London) make up Inner London and 20 Outer London. ... The City of Westminster is a London borough with city status, situated to the west of the City of London and north of the River Thames. ... Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties are a level of subnational division of England used for the purposes of local government. ... 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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. An amusingly named pub: the Old New Inn at Bourton-on-the-Water in the Cotswolds (southwest Midlands of England) A pub in the Haymarket area of Edinburgh, Scotland A public house, usually known as a pub, is a drinking establishment found mainly in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia... Edgware Road is a road in London. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Maida. ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... The Edwardian period or Edwardian era in the United Kingdom is the period 1901 to 1910, the reign of King Edward VII. It is sometimes extended to include the period to the start of World War I in 1914 or even the end of the war in 1918. ... Paddington is an area in the west of London in the City of Westminster. ... Categories: Water-transport stubs | Canals | Water transport ... A houseboat in Amsterdam A houseboat is a boat which has been designed or modified to be used primarily as a human dwelling. ... Little Venice is an area of central London, situated north-west of Paddington station. ...

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). Jews (Hebrew: יהודים, Yehudim) are followers of Judaism or, more generally, members of the Jewish people (also known as the Jewish nation, or the Children of Israel), an ethno-religious group descended from the ancient Israelites and converts who joined their religion at various times and locations. ... 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Lesko synagogue, Poland A synagogue (Hebrew: בית כנסת ; beit knesset, house of assembly; Yiddish: שול, shul) is a Jewish place of religious worship. ... Buckingham Palace, a Grade I listed building. ...

Maida Vale is also home to a BBC Recording and Broadcast Studio, used primarily by BBC Radio 1. The studio was home to John Peel's Peel Sessions, a regular slot in which a current popular band would play a set exclusively for the show. (Auto)biography John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was a British disc jockey, radio presenter, and journalist. ...

See also

• Newspad (local publication covering the area and its surrounds)

Newspad is an online publication covering the Paddington, Bayswater, Queensway, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park and Maida Vale areas of London W2. ...

External links

• BBC Radio Resources - Maida Vale
• BBC Radio 1 - Keeping it Peel

Maida Vale is also a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. Maida Vale is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, located within the Shire of Kalamunda. ... This is a list of suburbs grouped by local government in Perth, Western Australia. ... Perth is the state capital and most populous city of Western Australia. ... Motto: Cygnis Insignis (Distinguished by its swans) Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Governor Premier Const. ...