Sid James, Dusty Springfield and Fred Perry all lived in Ealing, a green oasis, which, incidentally, has London just up the road. There's a good shopping centre, a pretty green and a gothic-style town hall. Trees line the spacious streets and you're never far from delightful open spaces.
All this is deliberate: in an early exercise in brand-building, Ealing invented the soubriquet 'Queen of Suburbs' to highlight its abundance of parks.
Ealing has a rich cultural mix, which includes Irish and Asian families, Japanese and Arabs and is also the centre of London's large Polish community.
- Map of area: Ealing
- Postcode: W5
- Population: 12,634
- Average age: 37.57
- Average house price: £349,359
- Local authority: Ealing
- Within the congestion zone: No
- Train/tube: South Ealing, Northfields
- Bus routes: 65, 83, 112, 207, 226, 297, 427, 607, E1, E2, E7, E8, E9, E10, E11, N7, N207
- Banks: 7
- Cinemas: 2
- Doctors: 15
- Dentists: 8
- Leisure facilities: 4
- Libraries: 1
- Supermarkets: 2
- Theatres: 1
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