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Boston Manor was one of the ancient manors of Middlesex. Its Jacobean manor house of 1622 still stands in what is now Boston Manor Park. The local area is still commonly referred to as Boston Manor today but lacks any formal recognition. The Grand Union Canal travels through Boston Manor and features the famous Gallows [...]

It was the area centred around Mount Park Road that Nikolaus Pevsner remarks as ”epitomising Ealing’s reputation as ‘Queen of the Suburbs’.. In a very short time, Ealing had become a modern and fashionable country town, free of the grime, soot and smells of industrialised London, and yet only minutes away from it by modern [...]

Brentham Garden Suburb is no ordinary group of 620 houses. The first garden suburb to be built on ‘Co-partnership’ principles and an inspiration for the later, larger and more famous Hampstead Garden Suburb, it has made a mark on twentieth-century domestic architecture, town planning and social housing out of all proportion to its size. The [...]

Hanwell‘s name is thought to have come from the words hana, meaning a cockerel, and weille, meaning a stream. Hanwell was an ancient village, dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries. Hanwell is mentioned in the Domesday Book as consisting of farmland and meadowland. There was also a mill. Most of the villagers were [...]

West Ealing in its present form is less than 100 years old. In 1234 there was a hamlet called West Ealing. This name though appears to have been replaced by the name Ealing Dean at some time. West Ealing station, for example, began life in 1871 being called something else – Castle Hill & Ealing [...]

Homes of stars such as Cheryl Cole, Lord Alan Sugar, David Beckham and Chiswick’s own Colin Firth will qualify for the new Purple Plaque scheme. The initiative has been launched by online property resource Zoopla to identify properties across the country where a celebrity once lived. First to be honoured under the scheme are the [...]

The area was indeed a village historically before west London’s sprawl swallowed it up, and the model Brentham Garden Suburb was developed in the early 20th century. The area was known as ‘Pitshanger’, ‘Pitshanger Lane’ and ‘the Lane’ by residents of the area during the 1960s and 70s. The name Pitshanger Village was never used [...]

Maps of Ealing from 1860 and before show Northfields as almost entirely rural, hence the name Northfields. In 1874 a majority of this land was laid to orchards, with just a few houses along Little Ealing Lane. Some streets are names after apple varieties in memory of the areas history. The arrival of the Metropolitan [...]

There has been a church on the site of St Mary’s Church for nearly a thousand years. The church had a large parish extending from Wembley to Chiswick and in the late 16th century recorded having only 427 inhabitants.  The church was destroyed during the civil war of 1644. A new simple Georgian church was [...]

Little Ealing was once a sleepy hamlet surrounded by farmland and orchards. In 1882 the land that was developed by the British Land Company. In 1883 the land was set out as the roads that we know today and split into separate auctions for sale. In 1883 the first auction was split into 150 plots. [...]