Greenford Green

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Post to the north Sudbury Hill

Greenford Green
Marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, was originally ‘Grenefeld Grene’ 1538 from Middle English ‘feld’ - 'field', later ‘Greenford Green alias Greenfield Green’ 1558, ‘Greenford Greene’ 1625, from Middle English ‘grene’ - 'village green, hamlet'
British Alizarine Co Ltd. Perkins dyeworksa for aniline dyes set up factory in 1857 but later sold. At first produced mauve and then magenta and alizarin red. 
Lane from the hill onto the Horsenden Lane is an ancient trackway

Greenford
Name is first recorded in 845 and derives from a ford on the river Brent. ‘Grenanforda’ 845 in an Anglo-Saxon charter, ‘Greneforde’ 1086 in the Domesday Book, ‘Greneford Magna ‘1254, ‘Muche Greneford ‘1572, that is 'place at the green ford', from Old English ‘grene’ and ‘ford’, probably a reference to water plants or other vegetation. The earlier affixes - Latin ‘magna’ 'great' and Middle English ‘muche’ - 'large' - distinguish it from Little Greenford, which is now Perivale. There were probably fords over the river Brent at both places in early times. Greenford Bridge was earlier called ‘Styclyndon Brigge’ 1343, ‘Sticleton bridge’ 1625, so named from ‘Stickelyndon’ 1294, that is 'the steep hill or down', from Old English ‘sticol’ and ‘dun’, a name still preserved in the street name Stickleton Close.
There was a watermill and a windmill there in the 17th and land was owned by the Coston and Ravenor families.  In the Second World War this was a major area for artillery distribution.

Greenford Road
Glaxo Labs, 1934 had been a department of Joseph Nathan and Co. Ltd., dried milk importers from New Zealand
Mothers Pride Bakery

Horsenden Lane North
All Hallows

Horsenden Hill
Open Space, 276 feet, 236 acres, owned by Ealing Council.  ‘Horse's down’ but no evidence of Horsa but it looks over the Capricorn unicorn.  The highest point in the Borough of Ealing with views across London and four other counties, Horsenden Hill is an ancient rural landscape with ponds and hedges patterning the often unimproved meadows and pastures.  The area was pasture and arable in the 18th but was increasingly used for hay to feed London's working horses which would have been transported by barge along the canal. During the 1930s the grasslands were bought piecemeal by the neighbouring councils of Wembley, Ealing and the County of Middlesex and After the Second World War the last arable farm closed. Public space was developed across former fields, with the emphasis on sport. In 1984 an initial reintroduction of haymaking was successful. 
Home Mead where dyers greenwood was grown.  Still there growing wild.  Bronze plaque. 
Iron Age fort at the summit.  Celtic Stronghold and hill might have been fortified.
Bransden Green, orignally Middlesex County Council Park
Ballott Box, originally Middlesex County Council Park

OldField Lane.
Belonged to the Greenford part of the parish.  Replaced by the Greenford Road.
Greenford Golf Club - used to be Greenford Hill.
The Grange.  17th timber frame in 18th brick, some panelling barn at Greenford Green Farm.  17th house SSW of church
Black Horse Inn. Has a canal side garden.


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