Alexandra Palace
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: Event venue
- Description: entertainment venue in Alexandra Park, London
- Also known as: “Alexandra Palace Theatre”, “Ally Pally”, “Electric Theatre”, and “The People’s Palace”
- Address: Alexandra Palace Way, London, N22 7AY
- Wheelchair access: yes
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 520 feet southeast of Alexandra Palace.
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 400 feet east of Alexandra Palace.
Alexandra Palace railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Alexandra Palace railway station is on the Great Northern Route that forms part of the East Coast Main Line, and takes its name from the nearby Alexandra Palace in the London Borough of Haringey, north London. Alexandra Palace railway station is situated 2,700 feet northeast of Alexandra Palace.
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.
Wood Green
Town
Photo: Vicky Ayech, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Wood Green is a suburban district of the London Borough of Haringey, London, England. Its postal district is N22, with parts in N8 or N15. The London Plan identifies it as one of the metropolitan centres in Greater London, and today it forms a major commercial district of north London.
Alexandra Palace
- Categories: community center, sports venue, television studio, theater building, building, tourism, tourist attraction, and commercial building
- Location: Haringey, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.59426° or 51° 35′ 39″ northLongitude
-0.13087° or 0° 7′ 51″ westLevels
4Operator
Alexandra Park and Palace Charitable TrustOpen location code
9C3XHVV9+PMOpenStreetMap ID
way 4768526OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=exhibition_centreOpenStreetMap feature
building=commercialOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attractionOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q254650
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Alexandra Palace” 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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