Editing Northolt (section)

==History==
The earliest record of Northolt is in 872 as the [[Anglo Saxon]] ''norð healum'',<ref name="Glover">{{cite book |last1=Gover |first1=J. E. B. |title=The Place Names of Middlesex |date=1922 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. |location=London, UK |url=https://archive.org/details/placenamesofmidd00goverich/page/62/mode/2up?q=northolt |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref>{{rp|63}} where norð is North and healum (or hale) is ''a nook, corner, or retreat'',.<ref name="Glover"/>{{rp|102}} By 1610, the Name Northolt appears, with in this case, holt having no relationship with 'wood', but an evolution of hala, hale, hal, hall, halle and holt.<ref name="Glover"/>{{rp|63}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Northolt |title=Key to English Place-names |access-date=6 June 2021 |archive-date=6 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210606165907/http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Northolt |url-status=live }}</ref>

Archaeological evidence suggests that the settlement's origin was an 8th-century [[Saxons|Saxon]] village close to [[Northolt Manor]] behind the present Court Farm Road.<ref>{{cite book |title=The archaeology of Greater London : an assessment of archaeological evidence for human presence in the area now covered by Greater London |date=2000 |publisher=Museum of London Archaeology Service |location=[London] |isbn=1-901992-15-2}}</ref> It is mentioned in the ''[[Domesday Book]]'' as '''Northala''', part of the [[Elthorne Hundred]] in the [[Historic counties of England|historic county]] of [[Middlesex]], England. In 1066 the lord was Esger the constable, and in 1086 was [[Geoffrey de Mandeville (11th century)|Geoffrey de Mandeville]].<ref name="OD">{{cite web |title=Northolt |url=https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1284/northolt/ |website=opendomesday.org |publisher=Anna Powell-Smith |access-date=11 September 2020 |archive-date=2 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002090422/https://opendomesday.org/place/TQ1284/northolt/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Northolt Manor itself was built in the fourteenth century and provides much of the archeological information of the area from its excavations in the 1950s and onward. A [[Tudor period|Tudor]] barn built in 1595 from Smith's farm in Northolt was moved to [[Chiltern Open Air Museum]] and is now on display there.<ref>{{cite web |title=Northolt Barn |url=https://www.coam.org.uk/museum-buckinghamshire/historic-buildings/northolt-barn/ |website=Chiltern Open Air Museum |access-date=12 September 2020 |archive-date=1 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001210705/https://www.coam.org.uk/museum-buckinghamshire/historic-buildings/northolt-barn/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In the early part of the 18th century farmland was enclosed in order to provide hay for the [[City of London]], alongside more traditional crops such as peas and beans. Up to late [[Victorian era|Victorian]] times, the area was rural with predominantly [[agronomy|arable]] crops being grown.

1795 saw parliamentary approval for construction of [[Paddington Arm]] of the [[Grand Junction Canal]] later becoming part of the [[Grand Union Canal]]. The route from Hayes to Paddington passes through Northolt, opening on 10 July 1801.<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal |url=https://www.ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk/map/grand-union-canal/paddington-arm |website=UK Waterways Guide |access-date=3 October 2020 |archive-date=13 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210513010050/https://www.ukwaterwaysguide.co.uk/map/grand-union-canal/paddington-arm |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Great Central Railway]] line (now the [[Chiltern Railways|Chiltern Line]]) opened in 1906, passing through Northolt on its way from Marylebone to High Wycombe. However, it wasn't until 1926 that a station opened at [[Northolt Park railway station|Northolt Park]]. 1906 also saw the [[Great Western Railway]]'s [[Acton–Northolt line|New North Main Line]] pass through south of Great Central Railway on its way to Birmingham. The following year Northolt Halt opened on it, eventually becoming Northolt station. In 1948 an extension to the Central line, transformed it into [[Northolt tube station]].

In May 1915 the Royal Flighing Corp established an airfield in neighbouring [[South Ruislip]] in the [[London Borough of Hillingdon]], Most early RAF airfields were named after the nearest railway station; in this case Northolt Junction, (now [[South Ruislip station|South Ruislip]]), so it became RAF Northolt. {{main|RAF Northolt}}

WW1 also brought an urgent need for more munitions, and in 1915 the Ministry of Munitions created many national munition factories. The [[Filling factories in the United Kingdom#UK World War I National Filling Factories|National Filling Factory]] No 7 in [[Hayes, Middlesex]] had an explosives magazine at Northolt which was completed late in 1916. This 93 acre site had 20 stores each able to hold 100 tons of explosives, and was connected by a rail spur at Northolt Junction station. The location was just North-East of the current Ruislip Gardens station, with the rail spur on the south side of Yeading Brook, and the magazines connected by trolleyways on the North side. About 100 tons of explosives per day were sent by rail to Hayes for filling artillery shells - both the Hayes factory and the magazine were removed after the war ended.

Suburban development began in the 1920s. Most of the housing north of the [[Western Avenue (London)|Western Avenue]] was built in the 1920s–1930s, and is in the private housing sector. Most of the housing built to the south of the Western Avenue was built in the 1960s–1970s, and is in the [[social housing]] sectors, particularly along the Kensington and Ruislip Roads.

Two important transport links run through Northolt: the [[Paddington Arm]] of the [[Grand Union Canal]] and the modern [[A40 road]].

In the 21st century, a new large private housing development was built on the former site{{Citation needed|date=September 2020|reason=no reference to this site in the [[Taylor Woodrow]] article}} of the [[Taylor Woodrow]] company, adjacent to the [[Grand Union Canal]]. This development is known as "Grand Union Village" and incorporates a new canal boat marina.