Maida Vale Area Guide

A residential district comprising the northern part of Paddington in west London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn. The southern part of Maida Vale at the junction of Paddington Basin with Regent's Canal, with many houseboats, is known as Little Venice. The area to the south-west of Maida Vale, at the western end of Elgin Avenue, was historically known as "Maida Hill", and was a recognised postal district bounded by the Avenues on the west, the Regent's Canal to the south, Maida Vale to the east and Kilburn Lane to the north. The Regents Canal snakes through the area and offers buyers the chance to live ‘waterside’ on Blomfield Road. The more desirable streets are Sutherland Avenue, Randolph Avenue & Warrington Crescent.

Maida Vale is popular for its relatively quiet wide tree-lined streets, offering early 1900 red brick mansion blocks to white stucco fronted houses and apartments.

Fact -  Maida Vale took its name from a public house named after John Stuart, Count of Maida