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A map unique to Ealing showing districts?

Is there a map of street names of Ealing showing areas that don't feature on other official street maps, areas and districts that are unique to Ealing, like The Draytons, Poets' Corner, Olde Ealing, Stowell's Corner, Ealing Fields, Little Ealing etc etc?  I ask because we've met a young'ish couple who are house hunting in Ealing and being from different parts they don't know Ealing as well as we do. Anyone know of such a street map please?

Gerry Tan ● 4386d7 Comments

Almost totally off topic but the umbrella as we know it today was invented by Hanwellian Jonas Hanway(d.1786),in fact they were known as Hanways for years.  Not many people know that.  :0)  He was also the bloke that got an act passed for the protection of "Chimney sweeps Boys",and did much to instigate "Poor Schools",he also forced councils across London to tidy up their act in the sanitary department...again to protect children.

Tony Wood ● 4383d

"there are two poets corners, in Hanwell..."I know the Poets' Corner near and south of Framfield Road, but where's the other one please? Thanks.

Gerry Tan ● 4383d

Hello Andy, how are the bees doing?Stowells Corner I thought was/is in west Ealing where Café Onik (which I still call café Oink) is now.The Olde Hanwell bit is a misnomer of sorts as the oldest part of Hanwell is around St.Mary's church which pre-dates the bits around The Fox by over 500 years.

Nigel Brooks ● 4383d

there are two poets corners, in Hanwell (Milton, shakespeare, tennyson, cowper roads, dryden ave, etc) . Olde Hanwell is sort of down by the Fox PH.  (probably, I think) an attempt to explain away the narrow streets, which date back to the days when horses and carriages were the order of the day, and cars were not parked on both sides; not heard of stowells corner being used, but I know it as Hanger Lane - is the parade of shops on the SE corner, by the Giratory. Perhaps an estate agent in denial .... or being very poetic

Andrew Pedley ● 4383d

Certainly it does, but it only became a 'district' in the minds of estate agents and the more gullible buyers.

Nigel Brooks ● 4385d

Well certainly Stowell's Corner pre-dates modern estate agency and is still embellished in the parapet of the building that now houses Cafe Onik at the junction of Argyle Road and the Avenue. Never heard it used as a district though.

Philip Coe ● 4385d

Largely an invention of estate agents Gerry.Olde Hanwell, as example, stretches as far as their imagination rather than any real 'boundary'.

Nigel Brooks ● 4385d