Norwood Green

Norwood Green is a place in the London Borough of Ealing in London, England. It is a suburban development situated 10.7 miles (17.2 km) west of Charing Cross and 4 miles (6.4 km) northeast of Heathrow Airport. It lends its name to a much larger electoral ward within Ealing, which has a population of 12,500. Norwood Green is the modern name for the old hamlet called Norwood in the manor of Norwood, this name in turn derives from the Saxon settlement name of Northuuda. The manor of Norwood was in the parish of Hounslow until 1859 when the church of St Mary became the parish church for a new parish that also took the name Norwood. This new parish encompassed also the hamlets of Southall and Northcotte. In 1894, under the Local Government...