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Forty Farm, Wembley Forty Farm was situated where the Sudbury to Kingsbury road crossed the Lidding at Forty Bridge. In the 14th or 15th centuries, people, including the Uxendon family from Uxendon Farm, moved south to form another small community at Forty Green. This settlement was known as Uxendon Forty, Wembley Forty or Preston Forty. The farm at Forty Green was at first called Pargrave’s and later South Forty Farm. London’s growing need for hay meant that Forty Farm had converted to hay farming by 1852 and indeed was noted for its horses. The construction of the Metropolitan Railway in 1880 effectively destroyed Forty Green, although South Forty Farm continued into the 20th century. In 1928 the farm became the headquarters of the Century Sports Ground. The ground was built over after 1931. Housing spread along Preston Road and Preston Hill in the three years that followed. Old London postcard TUM image id: 1557227472 Licence:	Clay pigeon shooting at Uxendon, 1908 By 1900, Uxendon Farm had become a shooting ground (the Lancaster Shooting Club). When the Olympic Games were held in London in 1908 the ground was sufficiently important to be used for Olympic clay pigeon shooting. Pressure from the shooting club, which was a two mile walk from the nearest station (Wembley Park), played a part in the opening of Preston Road Halt in May 1908. Credit: Alamy images TUM image id: 1491752155 Licence:	A postcard of One Hundred Elms Farm, c.1920. Credit: Brent Archives TUM image id: 1489583911 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Preston Road as a rural lane, looking towards Kingsbury TUM image id: 1562848320 Licence:	Lawns Court This Wembley Art Deco block was built in 1933 on the site of the Holland & Holland Shooting Club. Credit: Modernism in Metroland TUM image id: 1666092214 Licence:
The farmhouse at Vale Farm, around 1900. Credit: Janet Prout TUM image id: 1489623545 Licence: CC BY 2.0	A postcard of Harrow Road in Sudbury, c.1910, showing Crabs House on the right and Sudbury Park Farm on the left. Credit: Brent Archives TUM image id: 1489624135 Licence:	The Clarendon Gardens estate (1925) TUM image id: 1574863417 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Woodcock Dell farm, Kenton (1901) TUM image id: 1562854416 Licence:	The construction site for the Empire Stadium (1922) This would later become Wembley Stadium. The odd markings may mark diggings for the previous Wembley Tower foundations. Credit: Historic England TUM image id: 1660647732 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Kenton (1870) Kenton as an isolated rural village is somewhat hard to grasp. Kenton Farm was long one of the only buildings there. In 1852, Kenton village consisted only of Kenton Farm, four houses, 11 cottages, the ’Plough’ inn, the smithy and the National School. The village must have had a wide hinterland since 16 residential buildings would not usually support both a pub and a school. Travel around the area was quite difficult in the days before tarred roads and it was normal to walk. Many of the local lanes were notoriously muddy due to the heavy clay. There was an old country saying: "Stuck like bees on a honeypot". Honeypot Lane to the east was almost impassable during wet weather. The arrival of the railway changed everything and Kenton expanded. Especially during the interwar years. the area was covered in almost identical housing. Credit: Ordnance Survey TUM image id: 1712575994 Licence: