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Neasden history
Name
The area was recorded as Neasdun in AD 939 and the name is derived from the Old English nēos = ‘nose’ and dūn = ‘hill’ It means ‘the nose-shaped hill’, referring to a well-defined landmark of this area.
As a hamlet
Neasden was a countryside hamlet on the western end of the Dollis Hill ridge. The land was owned by St. Paul’s Cathedral. In medieval times, the village consisted only of several small buildings around the green. In the 15th–17th centuries the Roberts family were the major landowners in the area.
Urbanisation
Neasden began with the arrival of the railway in 1868. Dudding Hill, the first station in the area, was opened in 1875, and the Metropolitan Railway extended through the village in 1880. New housing, initially for railway workers, was built in the village (particularly around Village Way) with all the streets named after Metropolitan Railway stations in Buckinghamshire.
Early 20th century
Neasden was dominated by agriculture until just before the First World War. In 1911, the population had swelled to 2,074, and light industry at Church End had spread up the area. In the 1920s, the building of the North Circular Road, a main arterial route round London, brought another wave of development.
WW2 and post-war period
Neasden Depot continues to be the main storage and maintenance depot for the London Underground’s Metropolitan line. The Post Office Research Station was located nearby in Dollis Hill, where Colossus computers, among the world’s first, were built in 1943-1944 and underneath it the Paddock wartime cabinet rooms were constructed in 1939. The post-war history is one of steady decline; local traffic congestion problems necessitated the building of an underpass on the North Circular Road.
Contemporary history
The Grange Tavern (previously called The Old Spotted Dog) on Neasden Lane was closed in the 1990s and demolished to make way for a block of flats. The Pantiles which stood on the North Circular Road was converted to another McDonald’s restaurant. IKEA opened its second UK outlet in the area in 1988. The area was terrorised by a local gang called “Press Road Crew” who carried knives and dealt drugs.
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