| Brondesbury | |
|---|---|
 One of the small station buildings of Brondesbury Park Station, higher than the line which is in a cutting. It has small cornices at the hood of window height and a modillioned bulky cornice (ledge) above. It has a built in yellow-brown brick with complementary coloured red brick dressings. | |
 Willesden Lane in Brondesbury | |
  Brondesbury Location within Greater London | |
| Population | 13,023 (Brondesbury & Brondesbury Park)[1] |
| OS grid reference | TQ245845 |
| London borough | |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | NW6 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| UK Parliament | |
| London Assembly | |
Brondesbury (/ˈbrɒndzbəri/), which includes Brondesbury Park, is an area in the London Borough of Brent, in north London. The area is traditionally part of the Ancient Parish and subsequent Municipal Borough of Willesden,[2] one of the areas that merged to form the modern borough of Brent.
Brondesbury railway station lies 4.1 miles north-west of Charing Cross, and its proximity to the originally Roman A5 road (the borough's eastern boundary) sometimes leads to addresses on the eastern, Camden, side of the road to also be informally described as part of Brondesbury.
It was a rural area until several decades after the coming of the railway in the Victorian era.[3] Housing began to be built in earnest across Brondesbury in the late 1860s to 1890s and it became desirable enough to retain a suburban layout and most of the associated original wave of house building.[3] It has long had British, Irish, Jewish, black and South Asian communities. Brondesbury was once the location of residence for Black civil rights leader Billy Strachan and his family, who wrote for local newspapers gave weekly political speeches in the area.[4]
- ^ "A Profile of Brent" (PDF). London Borough of Brent. London Borough of Brent/ONS. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 January 2017. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
- ^ Youngs, Frederic (1979). Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England. Vol. I: Southern England. London: Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-901050-67-9.
- ^ a b Willey, Russ. Chambers London Gazetter, p 65.
- ^ Horsley, David (2019). Billy Strachan 1921-1988 RAF Officer, Communist, Civil Rights Pioneer, Legal Administrator, Internationalist and Above All Caribbean Man. London: Caribbean Labour Solidarity. p. 14. ISSN 2055-7035.