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What is it like to live in Neasden, London and should you move there? A frank and honest review by a local resident.
Aug 8, 2024 · All things considered, Neasden is a decent place to live. It offers a good balance of affordability, convenience, and amenities. While it might not have the glitz and glamour of some other London areas, it makes up for it with a strong sense of community and practicality.
Oct 30, 2019 · Once called “the loneliest village in London”, Neasden is the very definition of a nowhere place. “I drove through Neasden the other day,” friends have told me over the years. And it is always...
- Niloufar Haidari
Neasden, Also known as “London’s loneliest village” located in the heart of north west London between Brent Park and St. Raphael’s Estate. There is no community here, nobody in London is bragging about being from Neasden.
- Early History
- Local Landowners and Life Up to The 1870s
- Railways and The Growth of Neasden
- Religion and Leisure
- Neasden Becomes A Suburb
- The Great Central Railway
- Industry
- The Inter-War Suburb
- Post-War Neasden
- Local History Articles
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. A charter of the Anglo-Saxon King Athelstan mentioning it is now regarded as a forgery, but it is definitely mentioned in a document of about 1000 AD listing men ...
During the 15th century the Roberts family became the most important landowners in Neasden. Thomas Roberts erected Neasden House (on the site of the modern Clifford Court) in the reign of Henry VIII. In 1651 Sir William Roberts, an active Parliamentarian, bought confiscated Church lands. After the Restoration the estates went back to the Church, bu...
Railways at first increased the need for horses, to move goods to stations. The first railway came to Neasden in 1868. In 1875 it opened a station on Dudden Hill Lane, called ‘Dudding Hill, for Willesden & Neasden’. The spelling Neasden, rather than Neasdon, came with the railways. Unfortunately the station was in the middle of nowhere and the rail...
Railwaymen worked 12-hour days, for which they were paid 42 shillings for a six day week. Unlike the local farmers, most of them voted Liberal. The Metropolitan Railway Temperance Union provided social facilities. In 1883 an Anglican mission chapel, St. Saviour's, was set up in the Village. Its priest, the Reverend James Mills, became an important ...
In August 1880 there were 30 trains a day each way between Baker Street and Harrow. The journey from Neasden to Baker Street took 20 minutes. The railway stimulated development. Farmland was being sold for building as early as 1882. By 1891 Neasden had a population of 930, half of whom lived at Neasden Village. Despite the presence of the Village i...
In the extreme southwest development did not really begin until the turn of the century. The area was so isolated that a sewage farm opened here in 1886, followed by a fever hospital in 1894. In 1893 the Great Central Railway got permission to join up its main line from Nottingham with the Metropolitan. Trains ran on or alongside the Metropolitan t...
Apart from the railways, Neasden was dominated by agriculture until just before the First World War. By 1913 light industry at Church End had spread up Neasden Lane as far as the Metropolitan station. The North Circular Road, opened in 1922 -3, brought more industry. By 1933 British Thomson Houston Co., the Neasden Waxed Paper Co. and the Oxford Un...
The 1924-5 British Empire Exhibition led to road improvements and the introduction of new bus services. Together with the new North Circular, it paved the way for a new residential suburb at Neasden. In 1930 Neasden House was part demolished and part converted into flats. In 1928 Braintcroft School was opened on Warren Road to serve the growing pop...
By 1949 Neasden had a population of 13,808 people. In many people’s eyes it was the typical suburb, provoking criticism from John Betjeman and, later, the satirical magazine ‘Private Eye’, which was printed nearby. But Neasden was never a classic suburb, because of its very industrialised south. After the war some flats were built, but there was li...
Find out more about this area by looking at our local history articles, written by volunteer researchers and members of local history societies: 1. Philip Grant, Neasden's Railway Village(.pdf, 1.04MB) An illustrated history of the Quainton Street area of Neasden since Victorian times
Neasden is a vibrant, multicultural London suburb. Though once thought of as a gritty area, it has been the beneficiary of a lot of revitalisation funding from Brent Council in recent years.
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Why Neasden is a good place to live Neasden is a charming corner of London filled with an array of delights. One of the stand-out features of this area is the beautiful views it offers, not only of the local vicinity burt of London's skyline.
