Ealing Common Area Guide
A locals' guide to Ealing Common
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What locals say about Ealing Common
“Ealing is a leafy, comfy, laid-back adornment to London life. You're never too far from a good coffee house or restaurant and there's lots of choice for socialising. You have close links to the M4 and good transport options if commuting further in to the city.”
Robert
“Ealing is a mix of modern and countryside ambience. Outside the train station you can see a lot of shopping malls, restaurants and cafes, but if you walk a bit further inside, the picture changes to rows of Victorian houses. I've been told that these houses are one of the most expensive in the Greater London area. There is lots of greenery around and all amenities almost at your doorstep. On its western side are a number of beautiful brick houses of the 18th and early 19th century â if I had the money this is probably where I would choose to live in Ealing! There are large Irish pubs, in case youâre in need of liquid refreshment. Ealing is a strong, growing place with important, influential residents and many local events also take place at Ealing Town Hall, including concerts, photography exhibitions and meetings of local societies. To the south lies Ealing Film Studios, again the subject of another tip. Although I don't know much about them, it seems that a lot of films were produced at Ealing Studios â I didn't go inside (I donât even know if this is possible but there was no sign outside that they are open to the public) so on a lovely Saturday morning we just took a picture from outside. Walpole Park is a beautiful park where people go for a picnic, play football, jogging etc. Me and my hubby spend some time watching many squirrels passing by. There is also a lovely pond and a cute childrenâs play area, but most of the parks are spacious green areas, where people play football. We loved the paths that are lined with trees and doing exercise in the fresh air. By the way, every July the park hosts the Ealing Jazz Festival that must be great (and almost free!) with hundreds of people going there and enjoying the events, like theatrical plays, opera etc.”
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Activities near Ealing Common
John Robb
Edge Street Live presents a thrilling and dangerous evening with John Robb John Robb talks about a life in music, his best selling art of darkness book, being the first person to interview Nirvana, inventing the word britpop and adventures on the post punk frontline.Read more
Dan Cruickshank
THE ENGLISH HOUSE 'Cruickshanks enthusiasm for Englands vernacular architecture shines through every infectious sentence of this glorious book... A triumph.' The Times The distinguished art historian and television presenter tells the story of the English house through eight highly contrasting buildings. It's the story of 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, built for a Huguenot silk-weaver subsequently becoming a synagogue. It's also the story of a row of two-up, two-downs in Toxteth; a block of flats in London's East End; the house Ideal Home described in 1926 as Britain's 'first modern house' in Northampton; and Chichesters superbly elegant early eighteenth-century Pallant House. Together these buildings reveal the ways in which English homes have developed and changed over the past few centuries and what they can tell us about the lives of their first occupants: their aspirations, their struggles, their place within society and relationship with their local community. Dan Cruickshankis an architectural historian and television presenter. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and has sat on the Executive Committee of the Georgian Group, and the Architectural Panel of the National Trust. His previous work includes the BBC television programmes Civilisation Under Attack (2015) and At Home with the British (2016), and the books A History of Architecture in 100 Buildings (2015) and Spitalfields (2016). Event duration: 1 hourRead more
Lucy Steeds
THE ARTIST 'Dextrous and powerfula hugely accomplished portrait of ambition and self-fulfilment The Guardian 'The year's most lauded debut novelist . . . A sultry, headily perfumed portrait of monstrous male egos and oppressed overlooked women. The Telegraph Travel to sun-drenched Provence in the 1920s as Lucy Steeds talks about her acclaimed novel, winner of the Waterstones Debut Prize 2025 and a book of the year in several newspapers. Through the dynamic between a reclusive painter, his niece Ettie and an aspiring journalist, The Artist explores themes of creativity, gender and overlooked female talent in this dazzlingly sensuous story of art, secrets and ambition. Lucy Steeds is a novelist and a graduate of the Faber Academy and the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. She has a BA in English Literature and a Masters in World Literatures from the University of Oxford. She has lived in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Singapore. The Artist won the 2025 Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize, the Waterstones Book of the Year 2025 and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction. Event duration: 1 hourRead more
Jung Chang
FLY, WILD SWANS Beautiful and moving Elif Shafak, The Observer SUPERB '. Daily Telegraph The Ealing Book Festival are delighted to launch the 2026 programme with a rare chance to hear one of the University of West Londons most esteemed former alumnae Jung Chang talk about her magnificent follow-up to the international bestseller Wild Swans . 35 years ago, Jung Changs ground-breaking memoir offered an essential understanding of Chinas recent history from the final days of the rule of Chinas last emperor through the Cultural Revolution and into the late 1970s, when Jung emigrated to Britain. Fly, Wild Swans picks up where Wild Swans left off, tracing Changs life and Chinas transformation from the end of the Mao era to Xi Jinpings authoritarian rule today. Chang explores how the political and cultural shifts of the last five decades have shaped her life and that of her mother, offering an immersive and deeply moving account of what it is like to live in a communist dictatorship and the threats modern China poses to the international world order. Jung Chang is the bestselling author of Wild Swans , which has sold over 15 million copies worldwide. Her acclaimed works on Chinese history have been translated into over 40 languages and she holds a CBE for services to literature. In conversation withLorraine Heggessey. Event duration: 1 hourRead more
Robert Macfarlane
IS A RIVER ALIVE? Macfarlane is Englands best nature writer. The Spectator Everyone who has ever found something to love in a river should find something to love in this book. It is a masterpiece The Economist Robert Macfarlane explores the ancient idea that rivers are living beings in his most personal and political book to date; an idea that has taken on new relevance and urgency as we face a planet battling the effects of climate change. His journey takes him from northern Ecuador, where a miraculous cloud-forest and its rivers are threatened by goldmining, to to the wounded rivers, creeks and lagoons of southern India and finally, to north-eastern Quebec, where a spectacular wild river is being defended from death by damming in a river-rights campaign. Sharing stories and insights Macfarlane shows how our fate is tied into that of our rivers. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is internationally renowned for his writing on nature, people and place. His bestselling books include Underland, Landmarks and The Wild Places , as well as a book-length prose-poem, Ness . In conversation withBen Morris In association with Clean Up the River Brent (CURB) [https://www.brentriverpark.org/campaigns/curbs/] Event duration: 1 hourRead more
William Boyd
THE PREDICAMENT Storytelling genius. Mick Herron English fictions master storyteller. Independent on Sunday Bestselling author William Boyd discusses the background to The Predicament , a thrilling tale of suspense, danger, love and the dark temptations of spycraft. Unable to resist the allure of his MI6 handler Faith Green, reluctant spy Gabriel Dax (first encountered in Boyd's Gabriel's Moon) , is lured once again into the shadowy world of espionage. Set in the 1960s, Dax travels from Guatemala to West Berlin encountering a chilling web of deceit involving the CIA, the Mafia and a plot to assassinate President Kennedy. William Boyd was born in 1952 in Accra, Ghana, and grew up there and in Nigeria. He is the author of seventeen highly acclaimed novels including A Good Man in Africa , An Ice Cream War , Any Human Heart and Restless . In conversation withMel Giedroyc. This event is supported by St Benedict's School, Ealing [https://www.stbenedicts.org.uk] Event duration: 1 hourRead more
Naz Shah
Honoured: Survival, strength and my path to politics The most unusual and shocking story of a standing MP I have ever read. Thank the stars for Naz Shah, a true heroine of our times. - Lemn Sissay You will be knocked sideways by this book. - Andrew Marr Honoured is an unflinching, unforgettable story of survival, resilience and political awakening by Naz Shah, Labour MP for Bradford West. By the age of five, Naz was used to the sight of her father beating her mother. At six, her father left the family for a teenage neighbour. At twelve, she was sent to Pakistan for protection from her mother's new abuser, only to be forced into marriage at the age of fifteen. Within a couple of years, her mother would be in prison, jailed for murdering the man who had subjected her to years of physical and sexual torture, and Naz and her two younger siblings would be left to fend for themselves. It was then that Naz campaigned with the Southall Black Sisters to get her mother released and a political career was born. In Honoured , Naz reveals how growing up she was sustained by the ever-increasing strength of her Islamic faith and guided by its values of justice and compassion allowing her to find purpose and the determination to stand up and claim space in a world that rarely offers it. Naz Shah has been the Labour MP for Bradford West since her election in 2015 in a bruising battle with George Galloway's Respect Party. Honoured is her first book. Event duration: 1 hourRead more
About Ealing Common
Ealing Common is a large open space (approx 47 acres) in Ealing, west London, bounded by Gunnersbury Ave (A406) to the east and the Uxbridge Road to the north. A smaller area of the common extends to the east of Gunnersbury Ave, including Leopold Road. The western boundary includes The Common and Warwick Dene, with Elm Avenue to the south. Ealing Common preserves a large area of open space with fine avenues of horse chestnut trees, most of which were planted in the late Victorian period, following the purchase of the common land by the Ealing Local Board. The northern part of the common has a large English oak tree at its centre, and London plane trees are also found with the horse chestnuts around the perimeter of the common. Charles Jones was the borough surveyor responsible for the layout. There is a local Conservation Area which includes streets around the common. The nearby London Underground station is named Ealing Common station after the Common.
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