White City, London

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Template:Infobox London place White City is a place in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in London in England. Home to the BBC Television Centre and BBC White City, is was level arable farmfields until it became the site of the Franco-British Exhibition and the Olympic Games in 1908 and the Japan-British Exhibition in 1910. It was known at that time as the White City due to the white marble cladding used on the exhibition pavillions, and hence gave its name to this part of Shepherd's Bush. To house a part of Shepherd's Bush's growing population, a five storey housing estate was built, to which the name of the White City would come to refer. While, after the Exhibitions, the stadium in the north of the area hosted a greyhound racing track and athletics ground, sited where the BBC now has its administrative headquarters.

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New development

Westfield Group (with Hausinvest Europa) is building a new shopping centre, bounded by the West Cross Route (A3220, formerly the M41 motorway), the Westway (A40) and Wood Lane (A219). This centre will be branded "whitecity" (a registered trade mark).

Two new stations will be built to serve the centre close to the sites of closed former London Underground stations. A new station will be built on the Hammersmith and City Line at the Wood Lane overbridge, between Shepherd's Bush and Latimer Road stations. This is located approximately where Wood Lane station was situated until it was closed in 1959 after a fire. The station will be positioned east of Wood Lane and north of the line, to minimise the walking distance for those connecting with the Central Line station at White City.

There will also be a new station opened on the West London Line which lies to the east of the site and runs between Clapham Junction and Willesden Junction. The station will be sited adjacent to the Holland Park roundabout close to the location of Uxbridge Road station (closed 1940) between Kensington (Olympia) and Willesden Junction.

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Trivia

In the early years of competitive international sport, the long distance marathon race did not have a standard set distance. The distance run at the first seven Olympics from 1896 to 1920 varied between 40 km and 42.75 km. The starting point of the race at the 1908 Olympics was at Windsor Castle creating a distance of 26 miles 385 yards (42.195 km) to the finishing line at White City stadium. In 1921 this was adopted as the standard distance.

Pete Townsend, of The Who and former resident of White City, released a solo album entitled White City: A Novel in November 1985 on Atco. The title refers to a story which accompanies the album and which takes place in the London area of White City.

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For other places called White City see the disambiguation page at White City.no:White City, London

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