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Original centre of Ealing ?

Where is the early original centre of Ealing - anyone know please?

Gerry Tan ● 4312d17 Comments

I recall Fred Housego (Mastermind Champion and taxi driver) presenting a programme on LBC radio some years back on this thread's very subject.. and you're all dead right!Check the Forum's search box too for the previous threads on Fred!Regarding the workhouse... it's shown on the Ealing 1777 map near Frog Lane!https://www.flickr.com/photos/finlandia_175/2132354617/sizes/o/

Jim Lawes ● 4309d

Philip,but the link you mention did say: "...the Parish of St Mary's Ealing had a workhouse in operation around 1727..."and goes on to say:"...a parliamentary report of 1777 recorded parish workhouses in operation at Ealing(100 workhouses)..."Most interesting.

Gerry Tan ● 4309d

Anthony,Not sure of the location so I googled it.  Does not tell me much more to the exact location of the Ealing workhouse but this website may be of general interest http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Brentford/

Philip Coe ● 4309d

The workhouse is right next door to the original vicarage,Between the dentists and the little block of flats set back a bit.

Anthony Waller ● 4309d

Architecturally, I think its a plleasant building - I think its been converted into individual flats now - there's a certain 'grand' feel to the building imo.

Gerry Tan ● 4309d

Yes - that's the one

Penny Crocker ● 4309d

I was not joking about the 7th Century reference, it was in a yellow-jacketed book that is in the Local History Section, though I cannot remember the name of the book. The reference to the media moving in because of this is definitely a joke!I have done a quick search of the online National Archive and there is plenty of stuff there from the 13th Century onwards, and there is a reference to "Yhellynge" at the end of the 13th Century, thus:National Archiveshttp://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/Details?uri=C9685827Reference:C 241/45/260Description:Debtor: Adam in Le Hale, of Ealing {Yhellynge} Middx.Creditor: William le Hurer, draper, and citizen of London [deceased].Amount: £13 3s. 4d.Before whom: Ralph de Sandwich, Warden of London; John de Bakewell, Clerk.First term: 29/09/1285Writ to: Sheriff of MiddxSent by: John le Blund, Mayor of London; John de Bakewell, Clerk.Note:William has executors.Date: 1285Held by:The National Archives, KewLegal status:Public RecordLanguage:Latin

Peter Mcleod ● 4309d

Penny, do you mean the excellent large mansion at the corner of Beaconsfield Road and St Mary's Road W5?

Gerry Tan ● 4310d

No I am not! I came across this interesting fact in the local history section of Ealing Library on an afternoon a while ago.There is apparently a deed on file in the Parish of Westminster archives (of which this area was a part) regarding the land which was used/rented by this farmer dating back to the 7th Century. I am not joking.

Peter Mcleod ● 4310d

I thought the workhouse was on the site of the mansion block of flats in st Mary's Road - almost opposite the university - the name of it escapes me..... anyone know?

Penny Crocker ● 4310d

From the book "Village London" (Edward Walford 1883)."Ealing or as it's sometimes written,Zealing,Yealing and Yeling."....."The name Ealing does not occur in the Domesday Book,so that apparently it had not become strictly parochial at that date."Well I never diddled.

Tony Wood ● 4310d

St Mary's Church and the Square I know, the old Fire Station and two old cottages near Clovelly Road I'm familiar with and St Mary's Vicarage I recall, but where is(was) The Workhouse please?

Gerry Tan ● 4310d

You sure you're not pulling our collective leg?  ;-)

Tony Colliver ● 4310d

There were two main sites in old ealing: Little Ealing (the cottages at the end of Little Ealing Lane) and St Mary's Church. There is apparently in the Westminster Parish Archives dating back to the seventh century covering this area for a farmer by the name of Yllng (who used to shout/yell a lot) hence the name Ealing. (Hence the media!:)

Peter Mcleod ● 4310d

The original village of Ealing is centred on St. Mary's Square and St Mary's Church. The Distinctive Victorian church, encapsulates a church much older on the site. The Fire station still exists and the oldest remaining structures are two cottages either side of Clovelly Road just off Church lane about 150m from the church. The Vicarage and the Workhouse are also there so most of Ealing's origins are in a small radius of the church.A traditional Ealing cast iron lampost now marks the centre of 'original' Ealing.Installed with the help of the Ealing Civic Society and the team who saved the cast iron lamposts. I think they were called SEAL.Ealing as it is now formed around the GWR and the Station.

Anthony Waller ● 4312d

If you look at the Domesday Book, the population count is mind-boggling. The manor of Kew, covering the whole of what is now Kew, Richmond and Kingston, was home to 300 people.

Susan Kelly ● 4312d

I have always understood that it was around St. Mary's church and dated back to the 12th century.Did a bit of Googling and it seems though that the oldest the in the borough was around Horsenden Hill and dates back, from archaeological surveys, around 7000 years.

Nigel Brooks ● 4312d