Cool Oak Lane, NW9

Cool Oak Lane connects West Hendon with Kingsbury.

Cool Oak Lane, West Hendon (1920)
Old London postcard

By the 1820s the Regent’s Canal was not holding sufficient water at its top in Camden Town.

To resolve this issue a reservoir was built in West Hendon by damming the river Brent near its confluence with the Silk Stream. This flooded a large area of low lying farmland to create the Welsh Harp reservoir. Later a bridge was built along Cool Oak Lane.

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Mike Dowling Undercliff Road, SE13 Added: 15 Jun 2024 15:51 GMT	Family ties (1936 - 1963) The Dowling family lived at number 13 Undercliffe Road for Nearly 26 years. Next door was the Harris family Reply
Evie Helen Erith Added: 13 Jun 2024 00:03 GMT	Vickers Road The road ’Vickers Road’ is numbered rather differently to other roads in the area as it was originally built as housing for the "Vickers" arms factory in the late 1800’s and early 1900s. Most of the houses still retain the original 19th century tiling and drainage outside of the front doors. Reply
Paul Harris Ellen Place, E1 Added: 12 Jun 2024 12:54 GMT	Ellen Place, E1 My mother’s father and his family lived at 31 Ellen Place London E1 have a copy of the 1911 census showing this Reply
Wedlake Street, W10 Added: 10 Jun 2024 19:31 GMT	Toll gate Close Did anyone live at Toll Gate Close, which was built in the area where the baths had been? Reply
Charles Black Middle Row, W10 Added: 24 May 2024 12:54 GMT	Middle Row, W10 Middle Row was notable for its bus garage, home of the number 7. Reply
Farm Place, W8 Added: 2 May 2024 16:14 GMT	Farm Place, W8 The previous name of Farm Place was Ernest St (no A) Reply
Tony Whipple Frank Whipple Place, E14 Added: 16 Apr 2024 21:35 GMT	Frank Whipple Place, E14 Frank was my great-uncle, I’d often be ’babysat’ by Peggy while Nan and Dad went to the pub. Peggy was a marvel, so full of life. My Dad and Frank didn’t agree on most politics but everyone in the family is proud of him. A genuinely nice, knowledgable bloke. One of a kind. Reply
Theresa Penney Whites Row, E1 Added: 16 Apr 2024 18:08 GMT	1 Whites Row My 2 x great grandparents and his family lived here according to the 1841 census. They were Dutch Ashkenazi Jews born in Amsterdam at the beginning of the 19th century but all their children were born in Spitalfields. Reply

NEARBY LOCATIONS OF NOTE

Gutters Hedge Farm Gutters Hedge Farm was also known as Park Hill Farm.

Gutters Hedge Farm

Silk Stream Silk Stream is just over 4 kilometres long and lies entirely within the current London Borough of Barnet.

Silk Stream

St John, Hendon St John is a church built by Temple Moore (1856–1920) was an English architect who was born in Tullamore, Ireland.

St John, Hendon

NEARBY STREETS

Algernon Road, NW4 Algernon Road was built on the Hendon side of the Midland Railway tracks during the last decade of the nineteenth century (Hendon)

Algernon Road, NW4

Audley Road, NW4 Audley Road was built along the line of a former footpath (Hendon)

Audley Road, NW4

Bertram Road, NW4 Bertram Road is one of a grid of pre-First World War streets (Hendon)

Bertram Road, NW4

Brent View Road, NW4 Brent View Road is a terrace overlooking the Midland Main Line in West Hendon (West Hendon)

Brent View Road, NW4

Cool Oak Lane, NW9 Cool Oak Lane connects West Hendon with Kingsbury (West Hendon)

Cool Oak Lane, NW9

Dallas Road, NW4 Dallas Road is a road running parallel to the Midland railway and M1 (Hendon)

Dallas Road, NW4

Damsel Walk, NW9 Damsel Walk is a location in London (West Hendon)

Damsel Walk, NW9

Dartmouth Road, NW4 Dartmouth Road runs north-south across Vicarage Road (Hendon)

Dartmouth Road, NW4

Dehar Crescent, NW9 Dehar Crescent is a road in the NW9 postcode area (West Hendon)

Dehar Crescent, NW9

Esmar Crescent, NW9 Esmar Crescent is a road in the NW9 postcode area (West Hendon)

Esmar Crescent, NW9

Gadsbury Close, NW9 Gadsbury Close is a street in Kingsbury (Kingsbury)

Gadsbury Close, NW9

Garrick Road, NW9 Garrick Road is a street in Kingsbury (West Hendon)

Garrick Road, NW9

Goldsmith Avenue, NW9 Goldsmith Avenue is a street in Kingsbury (Kingsbury)

Goldsmith Avenue, NW9

Hazelmere Court, NW4 Hazelmere Court is sited on Station Road (Hendon)

Hazelmere Court, NW4

Herbert Road, NW9 Herbert Road is now part of the West Hendon one way system (West Hendon)

Herbert Road, NW9

Hollyview Close, NW4 Hollyview Close is a road in the NW4 postcode area (Hendon)

Hollyview Close, NW4

Ingledene Close, NW4 Ingledene Close is a location in London (Hendon)

Ingledene Close, NW4

Irving Way, NW9 Irving Way is a street in Kingsbury (West Hendon)

Irving Way, NW9

M1 motorway, NW4 The southernmost section of the M1 was built in 1977 (West Hendon)

M1 motorway, NW4

Malcolm Court, NW4 Malcolm Court is a block on Malcolm Crescent (Hendon)

Malcolm Court, NW4

Malcolm Crescent, NW4 Malcolm Crescent is a road in the NW4 postcode area (Hendon)

Malcolm Crescent, NW4

Marriotts Close, NW9 Marriotts Close is a post-war development (West Hendon)

Marriotts Close, NW9

Marsh Drive, NW9 Marsh Drive is a street in Kingsbury (West Hendon)

Marsh Drive, NW9

Milton Road, NW9 Milton Road was the site of the first church in West Hendon (West Hendon)

Milton Road, NW9

Montagu Road, NW4 Montagu Road is a street in Hendon (Hendon)

Montagu Road, NW4

Moorhen Drive, NW9 Moorhen Drive is a location in London (West Hendon)

Moorhen Drive, NW9

Mount Road, NW4 Mount Road is a street in Hendon (Hendon)

Mount Road, NW4

Park Road, NW4 Park Road was formerly called Gutterhedge Lane (Hendon)

Park Road, NW4

Perryfield Way, NW9 Perryfield Way is a location in London (West Hendon)

Perryfield Way, NW9

Pheasant Square, NW9 Pheasant Square is a location in London (West Hendon)

Pheasant Square, NW9

Pollard Road, NW9 Pollard Road was urbanised in the final decades of the nineteenth century (West Hendon)

Pollard Road, NW9

Priestley Way, NW9 Priestley Way is a road in the NW9 postcode area (West Hendon)

Priestley Way, NW9

Ramsay Road, NW9 Ramsay Road was the northernmost of a series of disappeared streets in West Hendon (West Hendon)

Ramsay Road, NW9

Ramsey Close, NW9 Ramsey Close consists of two storey semi-detached houses built in the 1980s (West Hendon)

Ramsey Close, NW9

Riverside, NW4 Riverside is a road in the NW4 postcode area (Hendon)

Riverside, NW4

Russell Road, NW9 Russell Road is a street in Kingsbury (West Hendon)

Russell Road, NW9

Seelig Avenue, NW9 Seelig Avenue is a road in the NW9 postcode area (West Hendon)

Seelig Avenue, NW9

Shearwater Drive, NW9 Shearwater Drive is a road in the NW9 postcode area (West Hendon)

Shearwater Drive, NW9

Silk Bridge Retail Park, NW9 Silk Bridge Retail Park is a location in London (Kingsbury)

Silk Bridge Retail Park, NW9

Sorrel Mead, NW9 Sorrel Mead is a location in London (West Hendon)

Sorrel Mead, NW9

Station Road, NW9 Station Road was formerly called Burroughs Lane and led from the Burroughs to Edgware Road south of Silk Bridge (West Hendon)

Station Road, NW9

Stuart Avenue, NW9 Stuart Avenue is a road in the NW9 postcode area (West Hendon)

Stuart Avenue, NW9

Telford Road, NW9 Telford Road, now reduced to a stump, was a major part of the West Hendon Estate (West Hendon)

Telford Road, NW9

The Broadway, NW9 The Broadway is a street in Kingsbury (West Hendon)

The Broadway, NW9

Tyrrel Way, NW9 Tyrrel Way is a street in Kingsbury (West Hendon)

Tyrrel Way, NW9

Verulam Court, NW9 Verulam Court is a street in Kingsbury (West Hendon)

Verulam Court, NW9

Vicarage Road, NW4 Vicarage Road was laid out over a field of Renter’s Farm in the first decade of the twentieth century (Hendon)

Vicarage Road, NW4

Warner Close, NW9 Warner Close was part of the West Hendon Estate (West Hendon)

Warner Close, NW9

West Hendon Broadway, NW9 West Hendon Broadway is part of the Edgware Road (West Hendon)

West Hendon Broadway, NW9

Wilberforce Road, NW4 Wilberforce Road was one of a series of roads in the area built during the 1890s (Hendon)

Wilberforce Road, NW4

Woolmead Avenue, NW9 Woolmead Avenue leads south from Cool Oak Lane (West Hendon)

Woolmead Avenue, NW9

NEARBY PUBS

Hendon Sea Training Corps

O’Hanlons

Old Welsh Harp The Old Welsh Harp was a famous inn beside the Edgware Road.

Old Welsh Harp

Upper Welsh Harp The Upper Welsh Harp was a pub on West Hendon Broadway.

Upper Welsh Harp

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