Taylors Lane Power Station

Taylors Lane Power Station is situated in Willesden, north-west London. The first power station on the site, known as Willesden power station, was coal-fired and operated from 1904 to 1972 and was subsequently demolished.

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Type: Power station
Description: gas-fired power station in London
Also known as: “Taylor’s Lane Power Station”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Willesden and Saint Michael and All Angels.

St Mary’s Church, Willesden

Church

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St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church on Neasden Lane, in Neasden, Willesden, Borough of Brent, London. Since 938, there has been a church on its site. St Mary’s Church, Willesden is situated 2,100 feet northeast of Taylors Lane Power Station.

Saint Michael and All Angels

Church

Photo: Mike Quinn, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Saint Michael and All Angels is a church, which is situated 1,800 feet south of Taylors Lane Power Station.

Willesden Junction station

Railway station

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Willesden Junction is an interchange station at the intersection of the North London and Watford DC lines in Harlesden, north-west London, England. It provides Bakerloo line services of the London Underground, and the Lioness and Mildmay line services of the London Overground. Willesden Junction station is situated 1¼ miles southeast of Taylors Lane Power Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harlesden and Willesden.

Harlesden

Suburb

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Harlesden is a district in the London Borough of Brent, situated just north of Old Oak Common and the Grand Union Canal. Harlesden was historically in the Municipal Borough of Willesden before the creation of Brent; it lies within Willesden's postal district of NW10.

Willesden

Town

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Willesden is an area of north-west London, situated 5 miles west north-west of Charing Cross. It is historically a parish in the county of Middlesex that was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Willesden in 1933; it has formed part of the London Borough of Brent in Greater London since 1965. Dollis Hill is also sometimes referred to as being part of Willesden.

Willesden Green

Quarter

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Willesden Green is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Brent. The ward was first used in the 1964 elections. It elects three councillors to Brent London Borough Council. It is part of the constituency of Brent East.

Taylors Lane Power Station

Categories: gas turbine power station and industry
Location: Brent, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.54601° or 51° 32′ 46″ north

Longitude

-0.25758° or 0° 15′ 27″ west

Elevation

121 feet (37 metres)

Open location code

9C3XGPWR+CX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 318841702

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=industrial

GeoNames ID

8643995

Wikidata ID

Q7690249

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In Other Languages

“Taylors Lane Power Station” goes by many names.

German: “Kraftwerk Taylor’s Lane”

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