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Little Venice in London, England, is a famous tourist hot-spot known for its idyllic canals and numerous moored boats. It is also the home to many famous people whilst much of the area's property consists largely of cream coloured townhouses. The canals of Little Venice compromise two waterways, the Grand Union Canal and the Regent's Canal. The large picturesque pool that forms the central part of Little Venice is where these two waterways meet. Little Venice is served by one tube station, Warwick Avenue on the Bakerloo Line. Bus services are in general quite good with services on routes 6, 46, 187 and 414. Little Venice is a comparatively recent name. The area consisting of parts of Paddington and Maida Vale in the City of Westminster has been known as London's 'Venice' for well over a century however the Little is more recent. Certainly the name was in use during the latter half of the 20th Century. It became established thanks to a campaign to save one of the area's most iconic buildings, the Beauchamp Lodge. The boundaries of Little Venice are a little obfuscated. The name is used over a much wider area than the generally agreed boundaries, and with the new developments at Paddington (Merchant Square/Paddington Central) it has spread further. Indeed, Paddington Central can be said to be both in Paddington and Little Venice. It must be borne in mind the name (Maida Vale ) itself is fairly recent too – much of the area was known as Paddington whilst the land to the north of Browning's Pool was known as Kilburn Fields. Generally there is agreement that Maida Avenue, Warwick Crescent and Blomfield Road, the western portal of the Maida Hill tunnel, along with other streets such as Delamere Terrace, compromise the boundaries of Little Venice as well as the Grand Union Canal itself in a westwards direction towards Lord Hill's and Harrow Road bridges. There is clearly a historical dispute upon the name's origins and the person who created it. According to one story, the poet Robert Browning, who lived in the area from 1862 to 1887, coined the name.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Little Venice Music Festival )〕 However, this was disputed by Lord Kinross in 1966〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Letter to The Daily Telegraph, 1966 )〕 and by London Canals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The history of the place name known as 'Little Venice' )〕 Both assert that Lord Byron (1788–1824) humorously coined the name, which now applies more loosely to a longer reach of the canal system. Browning's Pool is named after the poet, and is the junction of Regent's Canal and the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal. Little Venice is recognised as one of London's prime residential areas,〔(Little Venice area guide ) at foxtons.co.uk〕 it also has a reputation for a number of cultural facilities including restaurants, shops, theatres and pubs, including the Canal Cafe Theatre, the Puppet Theatre Barge, the ''Waterside Café'' and the Warwick Castle pub. A regular waterbus service operates from Little Venice eastwards around Regent's Park, calling at London Zoo and on towards Camden Town. Since 1983, the Inland Waterways Association has hosted the Canalway Cavalcade in Little Venice.〔("Canalway Cavalcade: 2nd–4th May 2015" ). Accessed 5 November 2014〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Little Venice, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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