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Elgin Avenue
Elgin Avenue is a street in Maida Vale in London. Located in the City of Westminster, it runs east to west from the A5 road (Great Britain), A5 road close to Maida Vale tube station west to the Maida Hill area where it meets the Harrow Road. Sutherland Avenue runs roughly parallel to the south and is connected to Elgin Avenue by Lauderdale Road. The road continues east of the A5 as Abercorn Place which runs through St. John's Wood. The area was built as part of the rapid expansion of London in the first half of the nineteenth century. It was laid out as part of a plan for the area by the architect George Gutch in 1827, who envisaged a series of long Avenue (landscape), avenues. While isolated villas were built from the 1820s, it was not for several decades that the street was completed. It was known as Elgin Road until 1886, and takes its name from the Lord Elgin Arms public house. Later in the century many of the original villas were replaced by mansion blocks. In 1915 the new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Elgin may refer to: Places Canada * Elgin County, Ontario * Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Chatham-Kent, Ontario * Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario * Port Elgin, Ontario, Bruce County * Elgin, Manitoba * Elgin Parish, New Brunswick ** Elgin, New Brunswick, a community in Elgin Parish * Elgin, Nova Scotia * Elgin, Quebec * Elgin Street (Ottawa), a street in the Downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada * Port Elgin, New Brunswick Hong Kong * Elgin Street, Hong Kong, a street in Central, Hong Kong * Elgin Street, former name of Haiphong Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon New Zealand * Elgin, New Zealand, a suburb of Gisborne South Africa *Elgin, Western Cape, a large valley famous for deciduous farming, which lies to the south-east of Cape Town United Kingdom * Elgin, Moray, the administrative and commercial centre for Moray, Scotland, from which other names derive ** Elgin railway station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
