Ally Pally
Alexandra Palace is an entertainment and sports venue in north London, situated between Wood Green and Muswell Hill in the London Borough of Haringey. A Grade II listed building, it is built on the site of Tottenham Wood and the later Tottenham Wood Farm.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Theater building
- Description: entertainment venue in Alexandra Park, London
- Also known as: “Alexandra Palace”, “Alexandra Palace Theatre”, “Electric Theatre”, and “The People’s Palace”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Alexandra Park and Alexandra Palace television station.
Alexandra Park
Park
Photo: Chris Downer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Alexandra Park is a 200-acre, Green Flag Award, and Green Heritage winning, diverse-landscape park, in the Borough of Haringey in north London adjacent to Hornsey, Muswell Hill and Wood Green. Alexandra Park is situated 650 feet southeast of Ally Pally.
Alexandra Palace television station
Tower
Photo: Angmering, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Alexandra Palace television station in North London is the oldest television transmission site in the world. What was at the time called "high definition", the world's first TV broadcasts on VHF were beamed from this mast from 1936 until the outbreak of World War II. Alexandra Palace television station is situated 460 feet east of Ally Pally.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Muswell Hill and Hornsey.
Muswell Hill
Suburb
Photo: Salimfadhley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Muswell Hill is a district of the London Borough of Haringey, north London. The hill, which reaches over 100 m above sea level, is situated 5+1⁄2 miles north of Charing Cross.
Hornsey
Suburb
Photo: Julian Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hornsey is a district of north London, England, in the London Borough of Haringey. It is an inner-suburban, for the most part residential, area centred 10 km north of Charing Cross.
Colney Hatch
Suburb
Colney Hatch is the historical name for a small district within the London Borough of Barnet in London, England. Colney Hatch refers to a loosely defined area centred on the northern end of Colney Hatch Lane, which connects Friern Barnet with Muswell Hill, crossing the North Circular Road.
Ally Pally
- Categories: event venue, community center, sports venue, television studio, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Haringey, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.59456° or 51° 35′ 40″ northLongitude
-0.13121° or 0° 7′ 52″ westElevation
338 feet (103 metres)Operator
Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable TrustOpen location code
9C3XHVV9+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 4826306052OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=theatreGeoNames ID
6692752Wikidata ID
Q254650
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Satellite Map
Discover Ally Pally from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Ally Pally” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Alexandra Palace”
- Armenian: “Ալեքսանդրա պալատ”
- Arpitan: “Palès Alexandra”
- Basque: “Alexandra Palace”
- Belarusian: “Аляксандра-палац”
- Breton: “Alexandra Palace”
- Catalan: “Alexandra Palace”
- Central Kanuri: “Alexandra Palace”
- Central Kurdish: “کۆشکی ئەلێکساندرا”
- Chinese: “亞歷山德拉宮”
- Dutch: “Alexandra Palace”
- Dutch: “Ally Pally”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قصر الكسندرا”
- Finnish: “Alexandra Palace”
- French: “Alexandra Palace”
- German: “Alexandra Palace”
- German: “Ally Pally”
- German: “The People’s Palace”
- Hebrew: “ארמון אלכסנדרה”
- Irish: “Alexandra Palace”
- Italian: “Alexandra Palace”
- Japanese: “アレクサンドラ・パレス”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Alexandra Heall”
- Persian: “کاخ الکساندرا”
- Polish: “Alexandra Palace”
- Portuguese: “Alexandra Palace”
- Russian: “Александра-палас”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Alexandra Palace”
- Slovenian: “Alexandra Palace”
- Slovenian: “Ally Pally”
- Slovenian: “The People’s Palace”
- Spanish: “Alexandra Palace”
- Turkish: “Alexandra Palace”
- Ukrainian: “Палац Александри”
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