Editing Northolt (section)

===Population===
[[File:Mandeville Road, Northolt.jpg|thumb|200px|Mandeville Road ([[A312 road|A312]]), the main throughfare of Northolt]]
While Northolt remained a rural, agricultural area in the 19th century, its population growth remained slow:

*1066 – 32<ref name="OD"/>
*1801 – 336 inhabitants
*1871 – 479
*1921 – 904
*1961 – 26,000<ref>[http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/tourism/northolt/ http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/tourism/northolt/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313125007/http://www.ealing.gov.uk/services/leisure/tourism/northolt/ |date=13 March 2007 }} ''ealing.gov''</ref>
*1991 – 32,000

The rapid growth of the population in the mid-20th century can be explained by Northolt's growth as a [[dormitory town]] for nearby [[Ealing]], and the construction in 1935 of the [[A40 road (Great Britain)|A40 road]] through the area. Modern family homes were built in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1950s and 1960s, predominantly local authority rented housing was constructed. 3,423 [[council house]]s had been built in Northolt by 1963. [[Northolt tube station]] was opened in 1948 to serve the growing population of the area.