Barn Hill area (1900)
This map is a response to a user idea based on a previous map featuring 1900 Wembley Park (6 May) and a request to feature the area just a little to the left/west of that one.
So this is 1900 Barn Hill and surroundings.
For reference to the previous map, Blackbird Hill Farm at the top of Blackbird Hill is now bottom right, as is St Andrew's Kingsbury.
The tiny village of Preston is situated at the top left. The road leading south from it is called Preston Road and where it crosses the tracks of the Metropolitan Railway is the site of the future Preston Road station.
This station was at first only a halt, built because of the staging of the shooting competitions of the 1908 London Olympics at Uxendon Farm. It allowed competitors to get to the grounds which stretched up Barn Hill from Uxendon.
The now-busy Forty Lane runs along the southern edge of the map. Other important modern roads such as Fryent Way didn't exist, even as former paths.
