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Churchill Gardens

on the Great Western Railway housing estate this was named for the first Viscount Churchill, chairman of the company from 1908.

Claygate Road

26  Colourful front garden leading to imaginative, small back garden which maximises space in artistic and imaginative ways. 

Eastfields Road

Highfield Road

In a group of names in North Acton the suffix ‘field’ alludes not to arable land but to the North  Acton Playing Fields, which they surround this is above the rest of the group,

Links Road

The grounds of Hangar Hill House became a golf course.

Lowfield Road

Northfields Road

In a group of names in North Acton, the suffix ‘field’ alludes not to arable land but to the North  Acton Playing Fields, which they surround this  is, are on the perimeter,

Station parade

West Acton Station 5th November 1923. Between East Acton and Ealing Broadway on the Central Line. This was an extra intermediate station on the Central Line on a  Great Western Railway freight line built in 1913 as Ealing and Shepherd's Bush Railway. Cheaply bult with the little pagodas Great Western used on its halts.

Hanger Hill

Garden Estate the beau ideal of romantic rural Metroland. 1928-36 by Douglas Smith & Barley. 

Queen's Drive

Half a mile of timbered framed houses in cream and black – effect is comic. The houses are set off by attractive planting

Prince's Gardens

Railway Line

Metropolitan Line going north from North Ealing skirted the eastern boundary of  the grounds of Hangar Hill House.

Vale Lane

Holy Family church

Westfields Road

In a group of names in North Acton the suffix ‘field’ alludes not to arable land but to the North Acton Playing Fields, which they surround; this road is on the perimeter.



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