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Location | Kensington |
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Local authority | Kensington and Chelsea |
Managed by | London Underground |
Number of platforms | 2 |
Fare zone | 2 |
London Underground annual entry and exit | |
2005 | 4.343 million[1] |
2007 | 4.842 million[2] |
1864 | Opened |
Lists of stations | *DLR |
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Ladbroke Grove is a London Underground station on the Circle and Hammersmith and City Lines, between Latimer Road and Westbourne Park stations, and in Travelcard Zone 2 set in The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea .
Originally opened as part of the Metropolitan Railway on 13 June 1864 as Notting Hill with the extension of that line from Paddington to Hammersmith it was renamed Notting Hill & Ladbroke Grove in 1880 and Ladbroke Grove (North Kensington) on 1 June 1919 before acquiring the present name in 1938.
The station is the nearest to Portobello Road Market and market traders and shopkeepers in the market have started a campaign to have the station renamed Portobello Road in an effort to strengthen recognition of the market's proximity[3].
In popular culture[]
This station appears in an earlier version of the music video for Lily Allen's "LDN". Lily alights here after travelling from Hammersmith tube station on the Hammersmith and City line with her red Raleigh Chopper bicycle. The station also appears in the films Kidulthood (2006) and Adulthood (2008).
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London bus routes 23, 70, 228, 295, 452 pass the station and bus route 316 10min walk to the station on Cambridge Gardens.
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- London Transport Museum Photographic Archive
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- Lily Allen video on YouTube Video featuring Ladbroke Grove tube station (1 min 54 - 2 min).
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Coordinates: 51°31′02″N 0°12′38″W / 51.5172°N 0.2106°W
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