page_title: Paddington Arm
section_title: Developments and parks surrounding
hierarchical_section_title: Paddington Arm / Developments and parks surrounding
caption_attribution_description: English: Sheldon Square Offices, restaurants and shops, part of the Paddington Waterside Development, viewed from across the canal.
context_page_description: The Paddington Canal or Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal is a 13 ¹⁄₂-mile 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.
context_section_description: The London terminus, Paddington Basin, has public access integrated within a set of mainly commercial, high-rise, turn of the 21st-century buildings and immediate grounds which has received national awards for architecture; some is luxurious residential use.  Buildings include the Queen Mother Wing of St Mary's Hospital and the headquarters of Marks & Spencer.  The similar length 500 m channel to Little Venice is for more than a quarter of its length lined by the shops and apartments of luxury development Sheldon Square.
  In places the canal forms the edge of public parks, between Greenford, Yeading, Northolt and nearest the city at Meanwhile Gardens, North Kensington (a part also known here as "Kensal Vale"). The largest park adjoining is Horsenden Hill, Sudbury.  It forms one long boundary of elongated Kensal Green Cemetery, a Grade I diversely wooded site of 72 acres (0.29 km²) featuring two conservation areas and grave memorials such as to Brunel and two British Princes; this continues with St Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery where the interred include Mary Seacole, two Cardinals, a Bonaparte and two Polish leading spies against Nazi Germany: Andrzej Kowerski (aka Andrew Kennedy) and Krystyna Skarbek (aka Christine Granville).  The cemeteries front the canal with a wall since the era of urban grave robbing in the 19th century and a disused gate. The opposite (south) bank is the towpath side which provides canal views from many buildings and those visiting.
caption: Sheldon Square, on the towpath side of the canal from Paddington Basin to Little Venice, and adjecent to Paddington Station
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