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GENERAL STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS
OF THE BOROUGH
Area (acres) 2,607762
Population—Registrar-General's estimate (mid 1959) 52,900
Number of inhabited houses according to the Rate Book 14,953
Average number of occupants per house 3.54
Sum produced by a penny rate £4,025
Rateable Value £996,719
Parks and Open Spaces controlled by the Council:—
Brent Meadow 8.92 acres
Cranleigh Play Park 2.00 acres
Dormers Wells Housing Site 2.99 acres
Dudley Road Island 0.13 acres
Durdans Park 22.48 acres
Football Ground, Western Road 3.51 acres
Frogmore Green 0.35 acres
Glade Lane 27.93 acres
Havelock Road Open Space 2.22 acres
Jubilee Park 11.13 acres
Lady Margaret Road 0.25 acres
Land at junction of Windmill Lane and Tentelow Lane 0.48 acres
Land on west side of Cranleigh Gardens 1.07 acres
Lea Road 0.13 acres
North Road Island 0.35 acres
Norwood Green 7.25 acres
Queen's Road 0.13 acres
Recreation Ground 18.00 acres
Southall Municipal Sports Ground 19.78 acres
Southall Park 26.77 acres
Swimming Bath Site, Dormers Wells 10.50 acres
The Manor House 2.00 acres
West Middlesex Golf Course 108.oo acres
Western Road 0.17 acres
Wolf Fields 3.33 acres
Wolf Green 0.18 acres
Land to North-West of Kingsbridge Crescent 0.12 acres
Land on North side of Spencer Street 0.31 acres
280.48 acres
The Borough of Southall is a compact urban area situated due west of central London.
Its boundaries are clearly defined on the east side by the River Brent, on the west by the
Grand Union Canal and Yeading Brook, and on about half of its southern side the canal
forms again a natural water barrier. The distance between the eastern and western boundaries
and the northern and southern are roughly equal. Travelling by the main roads, it is
roughly 2½ miles each way from boundary to boundary. The Borough, which was country
only 50 years ago, is very fully built up now, partly with residential and partly with industrial
building. The practice in the past has been to build no higher than three floors in
the residential areas, but the need for more housing accommodation has resulted in introducing
multi-storey flats. At present the highest in the Borough are four storey blocks.
Certain features of industrial undertakings, i.e. the gas holder of the North Thames Gas
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