Randolph Avenue was first planned in 1827 by John Gutch, surveyor to the Bishop of London.
In 1816 an Act of Parliament was passed to allow the trustees of Sir John Frederick’s estate and the Bishop of London to begin development in the Maida Vale area. The area was first named on maps as Maida Vale in 1827.
Development began in the 1820s with development along Edgware Road. John Gutch’s 1827 plan for the area roughly follows current road alignments.
Gutch proposed long avenues, including Portsdown Road (from 1939 called Randolph Avenue), parallel with Edgware Road and crossed by Elgin Road (from 1886 called Elgin Avenue).
Lord Randolph Churchill - who eventually had the road named after him - was MP for South Paddington in 1885.
