page_title: Kenton, London
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Kenton, London / History
context_page_description: Kenton is a neighbourhood that forms the eastern part of Harrow in Greater London, historically in Middlesex. The main road through the area is Kenton Road, which also divides the area between the London boroughs of Harrow and Brent. Today Kenton covers a relatively sizable area to the east/northeast of Harrow, with a more distinct South Kenton part to the south.
context_section_description: 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.
  The Windermere is a Grade II listed public house in Windermere Avenue. It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors and was built in 1938. 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 called Blue Ginger.
  Local Primary Schools include Uxendon Manor on Vista Way and Priestmead Primary School on Hartford Avenue. The local high school is 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) followed on 28 June 1923.
caption: The London to Birmingham railway, train photographed near present day Kenton (1839)
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