Ealing Common station features the first Nando’s branch in the UK. There is still a bomb shelter at Ealing Common station.
Optionally we cross the main road to Fordhook Avenue where Ada Lovelace lived. Her house is no more, alas. But then we return to the station and take Leopold Road beside the common itself.
On Ealing Common itself, the Bollo Brook apparently rises somewhere near to the tube station. There are bunkers under the Common and some are under the Leopold Road end.
From Leopold Road, walk along Tring Avenue
The area between Acton Town and Ealing Common is called the Rothschild Estate (more recently, Rothschild Residential Area) and it was formed from the orchards of the Rothschild Estate. Roads were named in conjunction of the Rothschild family who owned the area and Gunnersbury Park. Tring Avenue was named after Tring Park Mansion in Hertfordshire, the main family home. Leopold, Lillian, Gunnersbury, Evelyn (either linked to Leopold or daughter of Edgar Curtiss who developed the estate). Stuart Avenue was named after Curtiss’ son.
Once over the bridge, take Carbery Avenue.
There is a Buddhist temple at 55 Carbery Avenue called Three Wheels. You can visit by appointment. It’s quite serene, especially in the garden.
We finally Acton Town station via Gunnersbury Crescent.
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