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Neasden / ˈ n iː z d ən / is a suburban area in northwest London, England. It is located around the centre of the London Borough of Brent and is within the NW2 (Cricklewood) and NW10 postal districts.
Neasden is also the setting for the regular column Neasden Police Log, a fictional log-entry style police report that almost invariably depicts the police as racist, incompetent, and obsessed with observing politically correct rules at the expense of maintaining law and order.
Early history. The name Neasden means ‘the nose -shaped hill’ in Anglo-Saxon. The original Anglo-Saxon settlement was on a well-drained and well-watered site on the western end of the...
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir (also commonly known as the Neasden Temple) is a Hindu temple in Neasden, London, England. Built entirely using traditional methods and materials, the Swaminarayan mandir has been described as being Britain's first authentic Hindu temple. [1]
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Neasden like this: NEASDON, a hamlet in Willesden parish, Middlesex; 3¼ miles W of Hampstead. It belonged to the Attewoods, and passed to the Robertses and the Nicholls.
Jan 28, 2019 · The name Neasden means ‘the nose-shaped hill ’ in Anglo-Saxon. The original Anglo-Saxon settlement was on a well-drained and well-watered site on the western end of the Dollis Hill ridge.
Once nicknamed ‘the loneliest village in London’, Neasden is now a characterless suburb sliced in two by the North Circular Road and separated from Wembley by the River Brent. Neasden’s name may have meant ‘nose hill’, a reference to its location on a small promontory at the end of the Dollis Hill ridge.
