Warwick Avenue is a residential avenue in the

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area of

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, London. Its southern end is situated adjacent to Paddington Basin, to the north of

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. The street, originally called Green Lane and then Warwick Road, before being renamed Warwick Avenue, was named after Jane Warwick of Warwick Hall,

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, whose father-in-law was John Morehead, who in turn was the son-in-law of Robert Thistlethwaite, who leased the land. At the junction of Warwick Avenue with Warrington Crescent and Clifton Gardens is the

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Church of St Saviour, consecrated in 1856 but rebuilt in a modern style from 1973 to 1976. The church was used for the wedding scenes in the promotional video for

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hit " Love Action (I Believe in Love)". Warwick Avenue tube station, a

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station on the

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, is located on the street. Warwick Avenue houses one of the remaining thirteen

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listed

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s used by London's taxi drivers as a place to buy food and (non-alcoholic) drink. Also Grade II listed is the bridge over the

Regent's Canal Regent's Canal is a canal across an area just north of central London, England. It provides a link from the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal, north-west of Paddington Basin in the west, to the Limehouse Basin and the River Thames in ea ...

which Warwick Avenue crosses. " Warwick Avenue", a 2008 single from the album ''

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'' by Duffy, took its name from the location after the singer accidentally alighted at Warwick Avenue tube station when unfamiliar with the London Underground.

Notable residents

* As founding secretary of the newly formed Society for the Protection of Birds, later

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, in 1891 the home of

Hannah Poland Hannah Poland (later Lemel; 18 May 1873 - 16 February 1942) was an English bird conservationist, founding Secretary and first Honorary Member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (SPB). Biography The first SPB annual report in 1891 ...

at 29 Warwick Avenue was the first official address of the organisation. *

John Julius Norwich John Julius Cooper, 2nd Viscount Norwich, (15 September 1929 – 1 June 2018), known as John Julius Norwich, was an English popular historian, writer of widely read travel books, and television personality. Biography Youth Norwich was born ...

's London home was a detached Victorian house in Warwick Avenue. *The Australian actress

Leal Douglas Leal Douglas (born Lilly Elizabeth Annie Lamb; 25 March 1881 – 3 February 1970) was a British-Australian actress, mainly of the silent film era. Of Scottish and English parents, Douglas emigrated to Australia as a child and began her stag ...

(1881–1970) lived at 54, Warwick Avenue."LAMB Lilly Elizabeth Annie and CHAPMAN Frederick William" in ''Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 MARRIAGE & DIVORCE'' at ancestry.co.uk, accessed 14 April 2020
“CHAPMAN Lilly Elizabeth Annie of 54 Warwick Av Paddington London died 3 February 1970”
in Probate Index for 1970 at probatesearch.service.gov.uk, accessed 14 April 2020

References

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