Little Venice is an affluent residential 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, also known as Little Venice and Browning's Pool, forms a triangular shape basin designed to allow long canal boats to turn around. Many of the buildings in the vicinity are Regency white painted stucco terraced town houses and taller blocks (mansions) in the same style. The area is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) west-north-west of Charing Cross and immediately north-west of Paddington.
The east side of Little Venice basin (the willow tree is on the island), overlooked by white painted Regency houses
Little Venice basin viewed from the western end looking north-east towards the Regents Canal corner, with the island on the right and white Regency style terraces overlooking the basin
Viewed from the Paddington Basin corner of the Little Venice basin: A British Waterways tug pushes a barge towards the Regent's Canal corner (The island is behind the barge)
Junction of the Regent's Canal, at Paddington. Engraved by S. Lacey from a drawing by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd. Metropolitan Improvements, 1828.
The Paddington Canal or Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal is a 13+1⁄2-mile (22 km) canal to Paddington in central London, England. It runs from the west of the capital at Bull's Bridge in Hayes. Little Venice — its only junction — is with the Regent's Canal, London that runs to Limehouse Basin to the east. The arm and the two canals it links are fed by water by the Brent Reservoir. The Paddington Arm is part of a long pound that stretches for nearly thirty miles.
Paddington Basin
Bull's Bridge junction on the Grand Union Canal
The canal junction at Little Venice
Sheldon Square, on the towpath side of the canal from Paddington Basin to Little Venice, and adjacent to Paddington Station