Editing Cricklewood (section)

===Urban development east of Edgware Road===
[[File:Windmill Bar, Cricklewood, NW2 (5695942466).jpg|thumb|Windmill Bar, Cricklewood]]
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Childs Hill and Cricklewood station, later renamed [[Cricklewood railway station|Cricklewood]], opened in 1868. In the summer of 1881 the [[Midland Railway]] Company moved its locomotive works from [[Kentish Town]] to the new "Brent Sidings", and in October of the same year it was announced that new accommodation for its workers would be built, later the now-[[listed building|listed]] Railway Cottages. Mr H. Finch laid out a handful of streets directly behind the Crown [[Public house#Inns|Inn]], (including Yew, Ash and Elm Groves) in 1880. The station had become the terminus for the Midland Railway suburban services by 1884. The [[census]] of 1881 showed that the population had grown enough for a new church, and St. Peter's replaced a tin chapel in 1891. A daughter church called Little St. Peter's was opened in 1958 on Claremont Way but closed in 1983. The parish church on Cricklewood Lane was demolished and rebuilt in the 1970s. This church building was closed in 2004. Services for [[Anglicans]] were then held in the Carey Hall on Claremont Road (which is the church hall of Claremont Free Church) but were discontinued there in December 2015. The [[London General Omnibus Company]] commenced services to [[Regent Street]] from the Crown in 1883, and in 1899 opened a bus garage (Garage code W), which is still in use and was completely rebuilt in 2010.

By the 1890s, houses and shops had been built along part of Cricklewood Lane. Cricklewood Broadway had become a retail area by 1900 replacing the Victorian villas. The Queens Hall Cinema, later the [[Gaumont Film Company|Gaumont]], replaced Rock Hall House, and was itself demolished in 1960. Thorverton, Caddington and Dersingham Roads were laid out in 1907, the year of the opening of [[Golders Green tube station|Golders Green Underground station]].

Cowhouse Farm, latterly Dicker's Farm and finally Avenue Farm, was closed in 1932. From 1908 to 1935, Westcroft Farm was owned by the Home of Rest for Horses; at its peak it could house 250 horses. The [[Metropolitan Borough of Hampstead]] opened the Westcroft Estate in 1935.