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Laid out over the site of the Fordhook estate, encompassing some 10 acres and noted for its gardens, that had stood on the boundary of Ealing and Acton parishes until development in the early part of the 20thCentury. Fordhook, one of the most prominent buildings in the area, was recorded as a farmhouse in 1795 but is thought to have dated back to the 17thCentury. It was home to two prominent owners, the first was author Henry Fielding who lived there between 1752 and 1753 who had moved to Ealing in an attempt to escape the pollution of the City. It was later occupied by Lady Noel Byron, the humourless but kind widow of the poet Lord Byron. She was an active member of the local parish and helped establish the Ealing Grove School, for the children of poor locals, sometime around 1833. The house itself was demolished in 1902 and the houses here and on Byron Road were put up between 1905 and 1910 by builders Blount and Kendall.
