17 Facts About Neasden

Neasden is near Wembley Stadium, the Welsh Harp, and Gladstone Park; the reservoir and River Brent marks its boundaries with Kingsbury and Wembley, while Gladstone Park and the Dudding Hill line separates it from Dollis Hill and Church End respectively.

Neasden was a countryside hamlet on the western end of the Dollis Hill ridge.

Neasden was no more than a "retired hamlet" when enclosure was completed in 1823.

Neasden farms concentrated on rearing and providing horses for the city.

The first railway running through Neasden was opened for goods traffic in October 1868, with passenger services following soon.

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In 1885 Mills took over St Andrew's, Kingsbury and became vicar of a new parish, Neasden-cum-Kingsbury, created because of the area's rising population.

Apart from the railways, Neasden was dominated by agriculture until just before the First World War.

Post-war history of Neasden is one of steady decline; local traffic congestion problems necessitated the building of an underpass on the North Circular Road that effectively cut Neasden in half and had a disastrous effect on the shopping centre by making pedestrian access to it difficult.

Neasden Depot continues to be the main storage and maintenance depot for the London Underground's Metropolitan line ; it is London Underground's largest depot and as such it is a major local employer.

Grange Tavern on Neasden Lane was closed in the 1990s and demolished to make way for a block of flats, bringing to an end the inn that had stood there for around two centuries.

In 1995, Neasden became the home of the biggest Hindu temple outside India: the Neasden Temple.

Neasden is within the UK parliament constituency of Brent Central, currently represented by Dawn Butler MP .

Neasden has achieved considerable notoriety thanks to the British satirical magazine, Private Eye.

Neasden was one of the locations in the TV documentary Metro-land.

Athletico Neasden was an amateur football team of mostly Jewish players, which played in the Maccabi Football League in the 1970s and 1980s and was named after the place, though it did not actually play in the area.

David Sutherland's children's novel A Black Hole in Neasden reveals a gateway to another planet in a Neasden back garden.

Neasden station is on the Jubilee line and is the only train station in a pretty wide geographic area, excluding Dollis Hill station which is close but on the same line.