page_title: Hanwell Park
section_title: Maps
hierarchical_section_title: Hanwell Park / Maps
caption_attribution_description: English: north Hanwell in 1934
context_page_description: Hanwell Park was a farming estate in west London. The estate was finally broken up by 1886 after Sir Montagu Sharpe had sold the holding he had inherited.
  Brent Valley golf club was formed from the estate of The Grove - a landed estate of 29 acres formed on the breakup of the much larger Hanwell Park estate in 1837 and enfranchised in 1860. Nearby is Cuckoo Hill, the site of a battle between Romano-British and Saxons in the sixth century known as Blood Croft and this bloodshed is a suggested origin of the name Hanwell; haenwael being a slaughter on high ground. The graves of seven Saxon leaders were found on this site in 1886 along with broken spearheads. The land was then built upon with Edwardian housing in 1905 when the London United Tramways Company was at last allowed to run trams through Ealing borough in 1901, causing a further wave of housing development in the area.
caption: Brent valley and Cuckoo Hill in 1934.  The Grove is now the clubhouse for the golf course and Grove Avenue has been built to the east.  Hanwell railway station on the Great Western Railway is at the bottom of the map.
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