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Forty Farm, Wembley Forty Farm was situated where the Sudbury to Kingsbury road crossed the Lidding at Forty Bridge. In the 14th or 15th centuries, people, including the Uxendon family from Uxendon Farm, moved south to form another small community at Forty Green. This settlement was known as Uxendon Forty, Wembley Forty or Preston Forty. The farm at Forty Green was at first called Pargrave’s and later South Forty Farm. London’s growing need for hay meant that Forty Farm had converted to hay farming by 1852 and indeed was noted for its horses. The construction of the Metropolitan Railway in 1880 effectively destroyed Forty Green, although South Forty Farm continued into the 20th century. In 1928 the farm became the headquarters of the Century Sports Ground. The ground was built over after 1931. Housing spread along Preston Road and Preston Hill in the three years that followed.
Old London postcard
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Wembley Park, around 1898 A map a day for the month of May. The name Wembley Park referred to an area that fell within the limits of a late 18th-century landscaped estate. Part of this estate became the location of development in the 1890s after being sold to Edward Watkin and the Metropolitan Railway. Wembley Park was next developed into a pleasure and events destination with a large fairground and the beginnings of a tower designed to rival the Eiffel Tower. Wembley was later a key area of the Metroland suburban development in the 1920s - the same decade saw the Empire Stadium built on the site of the tower and the British Empire Exhibition was held. This map was requested by a user last week and the area covered stretches from Wembley Central station (just off the map to the bottom left) to Blackbird Hill in the top right. The area was mostly pasture farmland though some arable fields are marked in yellow. Wembley Park continues to be a recreational centre today, being home to Wembley Stadium as well as Wembley Arena among others.
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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.
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Forty Farm, Wembley Forty Farm was situated where the Sudbury to Kingsbury road crossed the Lidding at Forty Bridge. In the 14th or 15th centuries, people, including the Uxendon family from Uxendon Farm, moved south to form another small community at Forty Green. This settlement was known as Uxendon Forty, Wembley Forty or Preston Forty. The farm at Forty Green was at first called Pargrave’s and later South Forty Farm. London’s growing need for hay meant that Forty Farm had converted to hay farming by 1852 and indeed was noted for its horses. The construction of the Metropolitan Railway in 1880 effectively destroyed Forty Green, although South Forty Farm continued into the 20th century. In 1928 the farm became the headquarters of the Century Sports Ground. The ground was built over after 1931. Housing spread along Preston Road and Preston Hill in the three years that followed.
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Clay pigeon shooting at Uxendon, 1908 By 1900, Uxendon Farm had become a shooting ground (the Lancaster Shooting Club). When the Olympic Games were held in London in 1908 the ground was sufficiently important to be used for Olympic clay pigeon shooting. Pressure from the shooting club, which was a two mile walk from the nearest station (Wembley Park), played a part in the opening of Preston Road Halt in May 1908.
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Wembley Park
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Lawns Court This Wembley Art Deco block was built in 1933 on the site of the Holland & Holland Shooting Club.
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Uxendon Shooting Club during the 1908 Olympics
Credit: Rapport officiel du CIO, Jeux Olympiques de 1908
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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.
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