Woodcock Dell Farm

’Woodcock’ is derived from the old English word ’Woodcot’ meaning a dweller at a cottage in or near a farm.

Woodcock Dell farm, Kenton (1901)
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Woodcock Hill (Lane) is the road leading south from the crossroad of Kenton Lane and Kenton Road.

Before 1930, a footpath was an alternative route to using Woodcock Hill Lane. It reached the location of Woodcock Dell, and then across fields to Harrow on the Hill - now the route of The Ridgeway and Northwick Avenue.

Woodcock Dell with its pond, by the time it came to adjoin the Metropolitan Railway, was a pig farm. A small ’cattle creep’ went under the nearby railway line in the direction of what is now Windermere Avenue.

Woodcock Dell Farm was demolished in the 1930s to make way for a new residential estate built by Costin, and Comben and Wakeling.

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A postcard of One Hundred Elms Farm, c.1920. Credit: Brent Archives TUM image id: 1489583911 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Rare Edward VIII postbox in Kenmore Road, Kenton TUM image id: 1686062448 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Preston Road as a rural lane, looking towards Kingsbury TUM image id: 1562848320 Licence:	The farmhouse at Vale Farm, around 1900. Credit: Janet Prout TUM image id: 1489623545 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Clarendon Gardens estate (1925) TUM image id: 1574863417 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Kenton (1870) Kenton as an isolated rural village is somewhat hard to grasp. Kenton Farm was long one of the only buildings there. In 1852, Kenton village consisted only of Kenton Farm, four houses, 11 cottages, the ’Plough’ inn, the smithy and the National School. The village must have had a wide hinterland since 16 residential buildings would not usually support both a pub and a school. Travel around the area was quite difficult in the days before tarred roads and it was normal to walk. Many of the local lanes were notoriously muddy due to the heavy clay. There was an old country saying: "Stuck like bees on a honeypot". Honeypot Lane to the east was almost impassable during wet weather. The arrival of the railway changed everything and Kenton expanded. Especially during the interwar years. the area was covered in almost identical housing. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1712575994 Licence:

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