Neasden is a hamlet, 1 mile north-west: the Midland and south Western Junction railway passes through here and has a station at Dudding Hill; there is another station called “Kingsbury and Neasden,” on the Metropolitan extension railway. Neasden-cum-Kingsbury ecclesiastical parish, formed from the parishes of Kingsbury and Willesden, was constituted 9 July, 1885. The church of St. Andrew, formerly belonging to the parish of Kingsbury, is a small but very ancient budding, standing apparently within the area of an encampment, perhaps of British origin; it consists of chancel and nave and a western tower of wood with short spire, containing 3 bells; and was restored in 1888: there are some traces of Saxon work, with Roman bricks and other rare features; the windows are Perpendicular: here are monuments to John Bul, ob. 1621; and to Thomas Scudamore, ob. 1626, both attendants of Queen Elizabeth and James I. and one brass to John Shephard, ob. 1520, his two wives and eighteen children: there are 120 sittings: William, third Earl of Mansfield, d. 18 Feb. 1840, with others of the family, are buried in the churchyard. The register for the new district dates from the year 1885, the earlier entries were made in the Kingsbury register. The living is a vicarage, gross yearly value £240, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, and held since 1898 by the Rev. George Haughton Ayerst M.A. of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. Dollis Hill House, the property of the Earl of Aberdeen P.C., F.S.A, was on several occasions the residence of the late Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone M.P., P.C. The Brent reservoir of the Regent’s Park canal, which extends to this hamlet, is upwards of 8 miles in circuit, covers 365 acres and is 35 feet in depth at the head, the deepest part. Here are extensive carriage works belonging to the Metropolitan railway company, employing upwards of 500 workmen. In 1893 gas works were added. A Wesleyan Methodist mission is maintained here in connection with the Metropolitan Railway estate.

Population of the ecclesiastical parish in 1891, 930.