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Taken from the footbridge over Western Avenue

©David Hawgood

A sadly faded slide, looking south down the canal towpath to the glass works

©Pierre Terre

From the canal towpath. A very noisy spot - I think there was a conveyor here carrying recycled bottles to their doom

©Pierre Terre

This path is in a thin strip of low woodland between the canal and the meadows of Horsenden Hill open space. The towpath is the other side of the canal.

©David Hawgood

The boat is by the meadows of Horsenden Hill open space.

©David Hawgood

The hedges are estimated to be medieval, based on the variety of plants.

©David Hawgood

The Lyon Way Industrial Estate occupies a triangle of land entirely surrounded by railway lines. Here a group of six silos stand next to Unit 1B.

©Nigel Cox

This is one of those odd stretches of railway that it is very difficult for the lay person to understand what its purpose is! It forms the eastern side of the triangle of railways at Greenford and is a Network Rail line that curves off northwards and then eastwards from the line between South Greenford and Greenford stations. It then heads off back towards London paralleling the London Underground Central Line from Greenford past Perivale, Hanger Lane, etc. It is certainly not a route used by scheduled passenger trains, so possibly it is now some means of reversing trains in the Paddington area through 180˚. What is certain is that it is shown as the Great Western Railway's Greenford Curve on the Ordnance Survey's maps of 1920, long before any residential or industrial development took place in the area, and its alignment has dictated the similar curved shape of the more recent road to the east, the residential Conway Crescent. On the skyline in the distance, around the curve towards South Greenford, is a semaphore signal. This photograph was taken from the Lyon Way industrial estate.

©Nigel Cox

A sign for the Westway Cross shopping centre, off of Greenford Road North.

©Phillip Perry

Taken from a footbridge on the Grand Union Canal.

©Phillip Perry

Dist:1.0km north<br/>This is one of the "45 churches" started in the 1930s as London suburbs expanded. Following from a building which is now the church hall, this was built in 1941.

©David Hawgood

Dist:1.0km west<br/>An oasis of calm between a busy main road and a housing estate. Cycle and walking tracks run alongside in this green corridor.

©David Hawgood

Dist:1.0km south<br/>This is a 50 metre Olympic pool.

©David Hawgood

Dist:1.0km north<br/>Taken from the car park of Tir Chon�ill Gaels Social Club http://www.tirchonaillgaels.com/ looking towards Great Bramstones and Horsenden Hill.

©Ray Stanton

Dist:1.0km east<br/>Round the back - taken over by Tesco.

©Ray Stanton

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