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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 TUM image id: 1557227472 Licence:	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. Credit: Alamy images TUM image id: 1491752155 Licence:	The Plough - reputedly 800 years old TUM image id: 1517936032 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The lower yard at cottages of Blackbird Hill Farm on Old Church Lane, Kingsbury (c.1880) Blackbird Hill Farm lay on the road between Neasden and what was later called Wembley Park. Credit: Brent Archives TUM image id: 1500238125 Licence:	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:	Mill Hill Avenue being laid out (1923) It became Watling Avenue later once it had been lined with shops. It leads from Edgware Road to Burnt Oak station. In a ditch on the left, Silk Stream is being channelled. Image: Credit: Topical Press/London Transport Museum TUM image id: 1681218921 Licence:	Lawns Court This Wembley Art Deco block was built in 1933 on the site of the Holland & Holland Shooting Club. Credit: Modernism in Metroland TUM image id: 1666092214 Licence:	Housing on Blessbury Road Credit: Municipal Dreams TUM image id: 1681220792 Licence:	Uxendon Shooting Club during the 1908 Olympics Credit: Rapport officiel du CIO, Jeux Olympiques de 1908 TUM image id: 1692700890 Licence: CC BY 2.0
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. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1715774589 Licence:	Burnt Oak (1932) Less than a decade after the arrival of the Northern Line in the area, this map shows two now-defunct airfields. The larger London Aerodrome (Hendon Aerodrome) was largely a project of air pioneer Claude Grahame-White from 1908 onwards. It later became RAF Hendon before closing in the 1950s. The area became Grahame Park. Stag Lane Aerodrome was a private aerodrome between 1915 and 1933, later sold for housing development. Credit: Geographica TUM image id: 1719484001 Licence: