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Willesden is an affluent area in north west London which forms part of the London Borough of Brent. It is situated 5 miles (8 km) northwest of Charing Cross. It was historically a parish in the county of Middlesex, that was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Willesden in 1933 and has formed part of Greater London since 1965.
With its close vicinity to affluent neighbourhoods Brondesbury Park, Queen's Park and Kensal Rise, the area surrounding Willesden Green station has seen increased gentrification in the past several years, with marked property price rising rapidly. The Daily Telegraph called Willesden Green one of London's "new middle class" areas. The area had a population of 44,295 in 2011 including the Willesden Green, Dollis Hill and Dudden Hill wards.
Willesden is an area of north west London.
Willesden may also refer to:
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, ship built in 1944 by Caledon Shipbuilding, Dundee as Empire Canning
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, ship built in 1961 by Barclay, Curle & Co Ltd, Glasgow
- Willesden railway station (1841–1866), a former station
- Willesden Junction station, a Network Rail station in Harlesden
- Willesden Traction Maintenance Depot, a locomotive maintenance depot
- Bishop of Willesden of the Church of England
- Municipal Borough of Willesden (1874–1965)
- Willesden F.C. (dissolved 1981), a football club
Usage examples of "willesden".
Even in Willesden Jemma had the faint scent of her Caribbean, especially at night.
He belongs here, in Willesden, where all his friends, and enemies, are.
Now with the change of season, he began to wonder if Jemma might be coming back to Willesden and to him.
Christmas, decorations, bright and blinking, in the windows of the Willesden shops, helped to warm the cold street.
Davies had left in the Willesden darkness and was at Gatwick at first winter light to greet her, to claim her.
Bakerloo Line to Willesden Junction or the Jubilee to Willesden Green.
And I looked round Willesden Junction in a spiral, like when I was looking for the train station in Swindon, but on the map with my finger.
Twelve minutes after its departure the train reached Willesden Junction, where it stopped for a very short interval.
Who he was, whence he had come, and how he had met his end were each as great a mystery as what had occurred to the three people who had started an hour and a half before from Willesden in those two compartments.
The guard also deposed that there was a good deal of movement upon the platform at Willesden Junction, and that though it was certain that no one had either joined or left the train there, it was still quite possible that some of the passengers might have changed unseen from one compartment to another.
A careful examination of the line between Willesden and Rugby resulted in one discovery which might or might not have a bearing upon the tragedy.
The lamps of the express had been lit at Willesden, so that each compartment was brightly illuminated, and most visible to an observer from outside.
He produced a card which had UNIVERSAL TELECAST printed in large capitals on one side and a simplified map of Willesden on the other.
From that queer seesawing of his feelings, he fell asleep, dreamed of all things under the sun as men only can in a train, was awakened by the hollow silence in some station, slept again for hours, it seemed, and woke still at the same station, fell into a sound sleep at last that ended at Willesden in broad daylight.
They reached Willesden just before closing and took Kitty into the Babe In Arms.