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Maida Vale is an affluent residential district comprising the northern part of Paddington in west London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn. It is part of the City of Westminster. The name derives from the ''Hero of Maida'' inn which used to be on Edgware Road near the Regent's Canal.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=British History Online )〕 The pub was named after General Sir John Stuart who was made Count of Maida by King Ferdinand IV of Naples and Sicily after the victory at the Battle of Maida in 1806.〔Ayto J.; Crofton I. ''Brewer's Britain & Ireland''; London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005.〕 The area is mostly residential, and mainly affluent, with many large late Victorian and Edwardian blocks of mansion flats. It is home to the BBC Maida Vale Studios.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Locations – Maida Vale )〕 ==Geography== The Maida Vale area is regarded as being bounded by Maida Avenue and the Regent's Canal to the south, Maida Vale Road to the north east, Kilburn Park Road to the north west, and Shirland Road and Blomfield Road to the south west: an area of around . It makes up most of the W9 postal district. 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. Parts of Maida Vale were also included within this.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of Postal Districts )〕 The name of "Maida Hill" had since fallen out of use, although it has been resurrected since the mid-2000s, through the 414 bus route (which terminates on Shirland Road and gives its destination as Maida Hill)〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Transport for London )〕 and a new street market on the Piazza at the junction of Elgin Avenue and Harrow Road.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harrow Road Local Area Renewal Partnership )〕 Just to the east of Maida Vale is St John's Wood and Lord's Cricket Ground. Developed by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners in the early 19th century as middle class housing, Maida Vale took its name from a public house named after John Stuart, Count of Maida, which opened on the Edgware Road soon after the Battle of Maida, 1806.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paddington – Maida Vale | British History Online )〕〔(Maida Vale History ) 〕 In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Maida Vale was a predominantly Jewish district, and the 1896 Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, a Grade II listed building and headquarters of the British Sephardi community, is on Lauderdale Road. The actor Alec Guinness was born in this road. The first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, lived within sight of this synagogue on Warrington Crescent,.〔("English heritage Blue Plaques- David Ben-Gurion" )〕 The pioneer of modern computing, Alan Turing, was born at what is now the Colonnade Hotel in Warrington Crescent. Maida Vale tube station was opened on 6 June 1915, on the Bakerloo line, and Warwick Avenue tube station, on the same line, was opened a few months earlier. 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「Maida Vale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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