Northala Fields parkrun

Northolt is a town in the London Borough of Ealing, west London, with a population of around 30,000 people. The first recorded evidence of a human settlement here is from 872 where an Anglo Saxon place is recorded as Nord Healum. It then appears in the 1086 Domesday Book as Northala, and is mentioned using its current name from around 1610. The area was once part of Northolt Manor and there was a moated manor house, probably built in the 1300's, located on the site where the early medieval village is believed to have stood. The manor house had been demolished by the early 18th century. Around this time most of the land was enclosed for agricultural purposes where hay and other crops were grown to supply the demands of growing the City of London.The Paddington Arm of the Grand Union Canal was constructed through the area and opened in 1801, and the canal now forms part of the town's eastern border with the adjacent town of Greenford. The town's fastest period of growth came during the…