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Dist:0.3km<br/>Just so there is no doubt, there's Wembley Stadium in the distance.
©Robin Webster
Dist:0.3km<br/>Halfway Line on football pitch on Tokyngton recreation ground
©Shaun Ferguson
Dist:0.4km<br/>Ever wondered where the name IKEA came from? Well, it's the initials of the Swedish founder, Ingvar Kamprad, plus the initial letter of the farm where he lived, Elmtaryd, plus the initial letter of the village that Elmtaryd was in, Agunnaryd. Another utterly useless fact is that the company sold, amongst other things, nylon stockings, before it started selling furniture. This store, more formally known as London (Brent Park), was the second one to be opened in the UK, in 1988, with a floor area of about 31,000 square metres. The view was taken from the rooftop car park with the access ramp visible in the foreground. The Wembley Stadium arch is visible in the distance left.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>Packed to the doors on a Sunday afternoon with huge quantities of antique-stained pine and birch-veneered particle board with strange Scandinavian names being acquired for living rooms all over North London and beyond.
©Cathy Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>View of the main front of the store from near the entrance to the external car park
©Nigel Mykura
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©David Hawgood
Dist:0.5km<br/>Junction with Drury Way and Brentfield Road.
©Phillip Perry
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©David Howard
Dist:0.5km<br/>Metroline fleet number TE984 waits at the terminus of route 332. It will depart for Paddington, most of the route being straight down the Edgware Road. Viewed from the Ikea car park.
©Robin Webster
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©Phillip Perry
Dist:0.5km<br/>Alongside the railway line.
©Steve Fareham
Dist:0.5km<br/>Trains running on the Chiltern Railways routes out of London Marylebone diverge here, to the left for Wembley Stadium, High Wycombe, Princes Risborough and Banbury, to the right for Harrow-on-the-Hill, Rickmansworth, Amersham and Aylesbury. The pale blue bridge on the left carries the B4557 Great Central Way over the railway, while the yellow locomotives parked in the siding may have some special function.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Viewed looking from the footbridge by the main A406 North Circular Road bridge, the inner two through tracks are used by Jubilee Line trains while the outer ones are used by the Metropolitan Line. Here a northbound Jubilee Line train has just left Neasden station heading for Wembley Park and then Stanmore.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>The Grand Union Canal between Brentford and Uxbridge was completed in 1794, and as traffic grew, there was an increasing demand for water to replenish it as locks were emptied. To solve the problem this feeder channel was built around 1811 from the River Brent, near where the Brent Reservoir is now, to the main canal in Park Royal at Waxlow Road. The feeder was gravity fed and for the most part followed the natural contours. The Brent Reservoir was subsequently built in 1835 and the feeder was then supplied through a tunnel in the dam. So this feature predates all the roads, railways and buildings that we are familiar with today, and a look at the Ordnance Survey map of 1873 shows it flowing in open fields with the River Brent to the west and the separate villages of Neasden and Willesden to the east. The Feeder is no longer the major source of water for the canal, that role being fulfilled by the River Colne and Fray's River. This view was taken from the pavement on the north side of the North Circular Road looking upstream between the IKEA (to the left) and Tesco (to the right) superstores.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking towards the North Circular Road side, this view was taken across the rooftop car park after a squally shower. The cage on the right contains a fire escape stairwell.
©Nigel Cox

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