Maida Vale, W9

Maida Vale is a residential district (also covering Maida Hill) in West London. It is part of City of Westminster. It starts off the 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. Where 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.[1] The pioneer of modern computing, Alan Turing was born a few hundred yards further down this same road.[2]

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. The BBC Radiophonic Workshop was based here from 1958 until the Workshop was shut down in 1998 by BBC management. 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 June 6, 1915, on the Bakerloo Line.

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