Editing Notting Hill (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Notting Hill Royal Borough Of K&C Council Map Outlining the Official Area of Notting Hill and the Surrounding Areas 2018.jpg|thumb|left|Notting Hill Royal Borough of K&C Council map outlining the official area of Notting Hill and its surrounding areas, 2018]]
The hill from which Notting Hill takes its name is still clearly visible, with its summit in the middle of [[Ladbroke Grove]], at the junction with [[Kensington Park Gardens]].

Notting Hill has no official boundaries, so definitions of which areas fall under Notting Hill vary. The postcode "W11", centred on the former<ref>{{cite web|title=Council's anger over Notting Hill Post Office closure|url=https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/pressrelease/pressreleasePage.aspx?id=1548|website=www.rbkc.gov.uk|publisher=Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea|access-date=29 January 2018}}</ref> site of the Post Office in [[Westbourne Grove]], near the junction with Denbigh Road, is the one most closely associated with Notting Hill. It covers the central part of Notting Hill, and is situated between the A402 (Holland Park Avenue) to the south and the Westway to the north. Notting Hill is made up of four sub areas plus Notting Hill itself. In the north west is [[Kensal Green]]…[[North Kensington]] in the south west while to the north east is [[Kensal Town]] and South east of the area is Westbourne Park and [[Notting Hill]]. These areas are separated by the by westway(north-south axis) and [[Ladbroke Grove]] which runs through the area north-south.
The local historian Florence Gladstone, in her much reprinted work "Notting Hill in Bygone Days" defines Notting Hill as the whole of that part of Kensington which is north of the road known as Notting Hill Gate.

[[North Kensington]] is considered the major neighbourhood of Notting Hill, but [[Kensal Green]], [[Latimer Road]] and Westbourne Park are also part of Notting Hill;<ref name=LondonEncyc>{{cite book|title=[[The London Encyclopaedia]] |editor-first1=Ben |editor-last1=Weinreb |editor-first2=Christopher |editor-last2=Hibbert |publisher=Macmillan London Ltd |year=1983}}</ref> though [[estate agents]] differentiate [[North Kensington]] and Notting Hill as distinct areas with [[Westbourne, London|Westbourne]] considered part of Notting Hill and Kensal considered part of North Kensington. Locally the areas of [[Portobello Road|Portobello]], [[North Kensington]], [[Kensal Green|Kensal]] are referred to as Ladbroke Grove, the main thoroughfare and tube station at the heart of Notting Hill.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.primelocation.com/area-guides/article/property-to-rent-in-north-kensington |title=PrimeLocation |publisher=PrimeLocation |access-date=20 May 2014}}</ref> That part of the [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]] roughly encompassed by the electoral wards of Saint Charles, Golborne, Notting Barns, Colville, Norland, and Pembridge,<ref>[http://www.rbkc.gov.uk/YourCouncil/YourCouncillor/default.asp#b Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080128142235/http://rbkc.gov.uk/YourCouncil/YourCouncillor/default.asp#b |date=28 January 2008 }} Electoral wards</ref> which is bounded on the north by Harrow Road and on the south by [[Notting Hill Gate]] and [[Holland Park Avenue]], includes all areas known as Notting Hill, including Notting Barns,<ref>{{cite web|url= http://cms.met.police.uk/met/boroughs/kensington_chelsea/03working_with_the_community/safer_neighbourhoods/north_kensington/notting_barns |title=Notting Barns – Metropolitan Police Service |publisher=cms.met.police.uk |access-date=7 June 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620215548/http://cms.met.police.uk/met/boroughs/kensington_chelsea/03working_with_the_community/safer_neighbourhoods/north_kensington/notting_barns |archive-date=20 June 2009 }}</ref> the centre of the Notting Hill race riot.<ref>[http://www.historytalk.org/Notting%20Hill%20History%20Timeline/timelinechap7.pdf Notting Hill History Timeline] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080821151226/http://www.historytalk.org/Notting%20Hill%20History%20Timeline/timelinechap7.pdf |date=21 August 2008 }}, historytalk.org. Retrieved 7 June 2009</ref> [[David Cameron]], former leader of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]], is known as part of the "Notting Hill Set", though he states he lives in North Kensington.<ref name="BBC NEWS"/>
[[File:Notting Haill Gate shops (2021) Kensaington Park Road.jpg|thumb|right|Notting Hill Gate shops (2021) Kensington Park Road]]
There are five tube stations in the area: [[Ladbroke Grove tube station|Ladbroke Grove]], [[Westbourne Park tube station|Westbourne Park]], [[Latimer Road tube station|Latimer Road]], [[Notting Hill Gate tube station|Notting Hill Gate]] and  [[Kensal Green tube station|Kensal Green]]. Notting Hill is part of the parliamentary constituency of [[Kensington (UK Parliament constituency)|Kensington]], represented by Conservative [[Felicity Buchan]] since the 2019 general election.