Place Name
In reference to the parish in Ealing, which in the Middle Ages belonged to the lords of the manor of West Twyford. The name, which literally means double ford coming from the Old English elements twī and fyrde, references two local brooks which run near or through it, of which the River Brent is one. It was written in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Tueverde and in 1199 as Twiford. The area began to take the modern spelling in 1402 written down as Twyford al. Twyforth. The original medieval manor house was converted into a Gothic mansion known as Twyford Abbey in 1806. Its small private chapel became St Mary’s West Twyford. This road was originally called Green Lane and also Wegg Road, after the Wegg family who owned the Elms, a significant early 18thCentury property, for the best part of a century.
