Blomfield Road is a street in the

Maida Vale Maida Vale ( ) is an affluent residential district consisting of the northern part of Paddington in West London, west of St John's Wood and south of Kilburn. It is also the name of its main road, on the continuous Edgware Road. Maida Vale is p ...

area of

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. Located in the

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it runs on the northern bank of the Regent's Canal in

Little Venice Little Venice is a district in West London, England, around the junction of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, the Regent's Canal, and the entrance to Paddington Basin. The junction forms a triangular shape basin. Many of the buildi ...

. The road branches westwards off the A5 and runs directly along the canal with both

Randolph Avenue Randolph Avenue is a street in Maida Vale in London. Located in the City of Westminster, it is a long avenue running from north to south. The southern end is located in Little Venice near to the Paddington branch of the Grand Union Canal. The st ...

and Warwick Avenue running north off it. It then follows the canal by turning sharply northwards until it meets with Formosa Street. The street features the white

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villas or terraces common for the area, dating back to the

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. Numbers 1-45 were constructed from 1840 to 1847.

Maida Avenue Maida Avenue is a road in the Little Venice area of Maida Vale in London. Located in the City of Westminster, it follows the southern bank of the Regent's Canal close to its junction with the Grand Union Canal. It runs between Warwick Avenue, Lo ...

runs directly opposite it across the canal for much of its route. A bridge across the canal connects it to

Westbourne Terrace Road Westbourne Terrace Road runs between Blomfield Road in the north and Westbourne Bridge in the south. The north part of the road is a bridge over the Paddington branch of the Grand Union Canal in Little Venice known as Westbourne Terrace Road brid ...

. It takes its name from Charles James Blomfield, the

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from 1828 to 1856. Multiple buildings are now

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.https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1291795

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