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Northolt

Northolt is a town in West London, England, spread across both sides of the A40 trunk road.

Northolt
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The place

Northolt is a town in West London, England, spread across both sides of the A40 trunk road. It is 11 mi (17.7 km) west-northwest of Charing Cross and is one of the seven major towns that make up the London Borough of Ealing. It had a population of 30,304 at the 2011 UK census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Northolt

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Polish Air Force Memorial

    The Polish Air Force Memorial is a war memorial in West London, England in memory of airmen from Poland who served in the Royal Air Force as part of the Polish contribution to World War II. Over 18,000 men and women served in the Polish squadrons of the RAF during the war, and over 2,000 died. The memorial marks the southern extremity of South Ruislip in the London Borough of Hillingdon, near RAF Northolt, where seven Polish-manned fighter squadrons were based at different times in the war.

    2.1 km · war memorial in South Ruislip, London Borough of Hillingdon, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    London Motorcycle Museum

    London Motorcycle Museum displayed a range of over 150 classic and British motorcycles. It closed in October 2019, partly due to inability to meet the running costs.

    2.1 km · transport museum in Middlesex, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary the Virgin, Northolt

    St Mary the Virgin is a 13th-century Anglican parish church in Northolt, London Borough of Ealing. It is on a slope shared with Belvue Park, the site of a 15th-century manor house — both overlooked the old village of Northolt.

    300 m · church in Northolt, London Borough of Ealing, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Mary's, Harrow on the Hill

    St Mary's, Harrow on the Hill, is the Borough and Parish Church at Harrow on the Hill in northwest London, England. It is a Grade I-listed building.

    3.8 km · church in Harrow on the Hill, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Trailfinders Sports Ground

    Trailfinders Sports Ground is a rugby ground in West Ealing, London, England, which is the home of Ealing Trailfinders rugby union. London Broncos rugby league club spent one final season at the ground, having been based at TFSG on a permanent basis between 2016 and 2020.

    3.7 km · rugby ground · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Northala Fields

    Northala Fields is a park located in Northolt, in the London Borough of Ealing. It was opened in 2008 and consists of four artificial hills standing next to the A40 Western Avenue, as well as several fishing lakes, a large field area, a children's play area and adjacent café.

    800 m · park located in Northolt, in the London Borough of Ealing · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St Mary's Perivale

    St Mary's is a 12th- or 13th-century English re-used church building in the London suburb of Perivale. During its religious lifetime, it was dedicated to St Mary, and was the smallest of Anglican churches in the dissolved county of Middlesex, excluding the City of London.

    3.6 km · church in London Borough of Ealing, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St. Mary's Church, Hanwell

    St Mary's Parish Church is a Church of England church situated at the western end of Church Road in Hanwell, West London. It dates back to at least the 12th century.

    4 km · church in Hanwell, London · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Northolt Manor

    Northolt Manor is a 1.8 hectare scheduled monument, local nature reserve and Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade II, in Northolt in the London Borough of Ealing. It is owned and managed by Ealing Council.

    300 m · manor house in London Borough of Ealing, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church in South Ruislip is a Church of England parish church in the London Borough of Hillingdon. It was designed by the architect Laurence King in Festival of Britain style and constructed between 1957 and 1959, with structural engineering by Ove Arup and Partners.

    2.2 km · church in South Ruislip, London, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Northolt

Airports
London Heathrow (LHR), 10 km · London Luton (LTN), 36 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 46 km
Stations
Rayners Lane tube station, 3.2 km · South Harrow tube station, 2.4 km · Eastcote tube station, 3.8 km · South Ruislip station, 2.3 km · Sudbury Hill tube station, 2.6 km
  • London → Northolt
    17 km · quickest by road, 1h · £2–2.5
  • London, Essex → Northolt
    17 km · quickest by road, 1h · £2–2.5
  • Birmingham, West Midlands → Northolt
    147 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £17–22
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Northolt

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Northolt. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    116 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    301 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    410 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    547 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    583 km

If you know how people move in Northolt – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Northolt

Northolt is 5 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Southallsuburban district in London Borough of Ealing, UK4 km
  • Greenfordsuburb in the London Borough of Ealing in west London, England1.9 km
  • Perivalearea in the London Borough of Ealing3.6 km
  • Yiewsleyarea in the London Borough of Hillingdon, London, England2.4 km
  • Harrow on the Hillarea in the London Borough of Harrow3.3 km
  • West Harrowarea in the London Borough of Harrow3.4 km