
Adpar Street is a street in Paddington.
Edgware Road Edgware Road station was a station on the world’s first underground railway. Hyett’s hand-drawn 1807 map William Hyett produced an amazingly accurate map of the London countryside in 1807, using just pen and paper. Aberdeen Place, NW8 Aberdeen Place was built on the site of a farm once owned by John Lyon, who founded Harrow School in 1571. Ashbridge Street, NW8 Ashbridge Street is named after Arthur Ashbridge, District Surveyor for Marylebone between 1884–1918. Ashmill Street, NW8 Ashmill Street was formerly owned by the Portman estate and named for Ash Mill in Devon where the family owned land. Blomfield Road, W9 Blomfield Road is the road running beside the canal on the Little Venice side. Harrow Road, W2 Harrow Road is one of the main arterial roads of London, leading northwest out of the capital. Paddington Green, W2 Paddington Green is a surviving fragment of the original rural fabric of the area. Westway, W2 At its opening, Westway was the largest continuous concrete structure in Britain.
Edgware Road station was a station on the world’s first underground railway.The main
Edgware Road station now serves the Circle, District and Hammersmith & City lines. It opened a few months later than other stops on the rest of the Metropolitan Railway between Paddington and Farringdon, opening on 1 October 1863.
A second
Edgware Road station was opened on 15 June 1907 by the Baker Street and Waterloo Railway (BS&WR, now the Bakerloo line) when it extended its line from the temporary northern terminus at Marylebone. In common with other early stations of the lines owned by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, that station was designed by architect Leslie Green with an ox-blood red glazed terracotta façade.