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A delightful pair of interwar estates in north Ealing, especially popular with Japanese families. ‘Hanger’ meant
a wood on the side of a hill or bank. Hanger Hill House, built in 1790, was the home of local landowners the Wood family until
1874. In the early years of the twentieth century, the mansion became a golf clubhouse, while the adjoining fields were colonised
by Acton Aerodrome and the manufacturing facilities of the Alliance Aeroplane Company. With the coming of the Western Avenue
the land was acquired for development and the Hanger Hill garden estate was laid out between 1928 and 1936. Consisting of
short terraces of houses and three-storey blocks of flats, all in mock-Tudor style, the development is characterised by lovely
gardens and vistas. The neighbouring Haymills estate is remarkable amongst London suburbs of the 1930s for the large number
of buildings designed by a single practice, as a series of concentric crescents. Ealing council created a Hanger Hill electoral
ward in 1999 in a move described as “uniting the whole Hanger Hill community in one ward for the first time.”
Ethnically, the ward is two-thirds white and the main minorities are of Indian and Japanese origin. After Christianity, the
principal religions are Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism. Just over half the 16 to 74-year-olds are university educated. More
than a quarter of the properties are privately rented.
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