Editing Kenton, London (section)

== History ==
[[File:Roscoe L&BR(1839) p069 - Harrow on the Hill.jpg|thumb|left|The London to Birmingham railway, train illustrated near present-day Kenton (1839)]]
[[File:Windermere, North Wembley, HA9 (2468567053).jpg|thumb|left|[[Windermere, South Kenton|The Windermere]] is a public house, located next to [[South Kenton station]]]]
The hamlet was recorded as "Keninton" in 1232. The name derives from the personal name of the Saxon "Coena" and the Old English "tun", a farm – and means "the farm of Coena" and his family who once lived on a site near here. Before the 20th century, the tiny settlement was concentrated around in what was Kenton Lane (the easternmost part of which remains as Old Kenton Lane to the east of Kingsbury station) and is now part of the present-day Woodgrange Avenue and Kenton Road.<ref>Ordnance Survey maps, various, from 19th century to 1930s</ref>

[[Windermere, South Kenton|The Windermere]] is a [[listed building|Grade II listed]] [[public house]] in Windermere Avenue.<ref name=EnglishHeritage>{{NHLE|desc=The Windermere public house|num=1350348|access-date=22 May 2014}}</ref> It is on the [[Campaign for Real Ale]]'s [[National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors]]<ref name=Brandwood>{{cite book|last1=Brandwood|first1=Geoff|title=Britain's best real heritage pubs|date=2013|publisher=CAMRA|location=St. Albans|isbn=9781852493042|page=89}}</ref> and was built in 1938.<ref name=EnglishHeritage /> The Plough public house was Kenton's first, opening in the early 18th century; the current building is not the original. It is now an Indo-Chinese fusion restaurant and bar.

Local Primary Schools include Uxendon Manor on Vista Way and Priestmead Primary School on Hartford Avenue. The local high school is [[Claremont High School (Kenton)|Claremont High School]] on Claremont Avenue off Kenton Road.

[[Kenton station]] was opened by the [[London and North Western Railway]] on 15 June 1912. The [[Metropolitan Railway]]'s Northwick Park and Kenton station (later renamed [[Northwick Park tube station|Northwick Park]]) followed on 28 June 1923.