London Borough of Ealing
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| London Borough of Ealing | |
| Motto: Progress with Unity | |
 Shown within Greater London |
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| Geography | |
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| Status | London Borough |
| Area — Total |
Ranked 265th 55.53 km2 (21.4 sq mi) |
| ONS code | 00AJ |
| Admin HQ | Ealing Town Hall, Uxbridge Road, Ealing |
| Demographics | |
| Population — Total (2008 est.) — Density |
Ranked 21st (of 326) 309,000 5,565 /km2 (14,413 /sq mi) |
| Ethnicity White British White Irish Other White White & Black Caribbean White & Black African White & Asian Other Mixed Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Other Asian Black Caribbean Black African Other Black Chinese Other |
(2005 estimates)[1] 45.5% 3.9% 9.5% 1.0% 0.5% 1.3% 1.0% 15.0% 3.9% 0.5% 3.9% 4.0% 4.1% 0.6% 1.4% 3.8% |
| Politics | |
| Ealing London Borough Council | |
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| Leadership | Leader & Cabinet (currently led by Jason Stacey) Chief Executive - Martin Smith |
| Mayor | Cllr Barbara Yerolemou |
| Executive | Conservative |
| MPs | Stephen Pound Andrew Slaughter Virendra Sharma |
| London Assembly — Member |
Ealing and Hillingdon Richard Barnes |
| Coat of Arms | |
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| Official website | http://www.ealing.gov.uk/ |
The London Borough of Ealing (
pronunciation (help·info)) is an Outer London borough in West London.
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[edit] Location
The London Borough of Ealing borders the London Borough of Hillingdon to the west, the London Borough of Harrow and the London Borough of Brent to the north, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham to the east and the London Borough of Hounslow to the south.
The London borough was formed in 1965 by the merging the area of the Municipal Borough of Ealing, the Municipal Borough of Southall and the Municipal Borough of Acton from Middlesex
Along with Brentford, the London Borough of Ealing is the setting for much of the action in Robert Rankin's series of comedic novels, The Brentford Trilogy, which currently consists of six volumes.[citation needed] Ealing is also the primary setting for The Sarah Jane Adventures, being the location of Sarah Jane Smith's home.
In 2006 the borough was said to have "one of the largest Polish communities in the country".[2]
Within the borough are two garden suburbs, Brentham Garden Suburb and Bedford Park.
[edit] Districts in the borough
- Acton
- Ealing (Little Ealing)
- East Acton
- Greenford
- Hanwell
- North Acton
- Northolt
- Norwood Green
- Park Royal
- see also Ealing parks and open spaces
- Perivale
- South Acton
- Southall
- West Ealing
[edit] Parliamentary constituencies in Ealing
[edit] London Fire Brigade
There are four fire stations within the London Borough of Ealing. Southall and Northolt have similar-sized station grounds and both house two pumping appliances. Southall attended some 700 incidents more than their Northolt counterparts in 2006/07. Ealing, with two pumping appliances, and Acton, one pump and two fire investigation units, are the other two appliances in the area. Interestingly, the ward of Northfield had over forty malicious calls made from it -more than twice as any other ward within Ealing.[3]
[edit] Education
Ealing has a total of 91 state-run schools and nurseries. There are 13 high schools under the domain of the local education authority, 12 of which are either comprehensive, foundation or voluntary-aided, and one city academy.
[edit] Demographics
The borough of Ealing is both religiously and ethnically diverse like other london boroughs in the west london area. Approximately 50% of the borough are of the BME peoples, South asians and other 24%, african/caribbean and other 10%, Other white (mainly iranian/iraqi) 10%, chinese and other 5% respectively.
As well as being ethnically diverse the area is all so home to various religions that have substantial followers that are higher then the london average. christianity is the biggest with 50%, Islam has 11%, sikhism 8.5%, hinduism 7.8%, the remaining 23% did not respond when asked.
[edit] Transport
The numerous National Rail and London Underground stations in the borough are:
- Acton Central railway station
- Acton Main Line railway station
- Acton Town tube station
- Boston Manor tube station
- Castle Bar Park railway station
- Chiswick Park tube station
- Drayton Green railway station
- Ealing Broadway station
- Ealing Common tube station
- Greenford station
- Hanger Lane tube station
- Hanwell railway station
- North Acton tube station
- North Ealing tube station
- Northfields tube station
- Northolt Park railway station
- Northolt tube station
- Park Royal tube station
- Perivale tube station
- South Acton railway station
- South Ealing tube station
- South Greenford railway station
- Southall railway station
- Sudbury Hill tube station
- Sudbury Town tube station
- West Acton tube station
- West Ealing railway station
[edit] Transport development
In April 2009 the council voted to support in principle a proposal for a North and West London Light railway.[4]
[edit] Town twinning
Ealing is twinned with:
The district of Bielany, Poland;
The town of Marcq-en-Barœul, France;
The district of Steinfurt, Germany[5]
[edit] References
- ^ Data Management and Analysis Group, Greater London Authority, Demography Update October 2007, (2007)
- ^ Ealing Times, 21st August 2006, Eighth Celebration of Polish Culture, Ealingtimes.co.uk
- ^ London-fire.gov.uk
- ^ The Times Comment on NWLLR light-rail proposal
- ^ Ealing Council.Twinning. Accessed 2008-09-19
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