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Hanger Lane

Ealing

'Hanger' means a wooded slope.

It comes from Old English hangra, a wood on the side of a hill. The road takes its name from Hanger Hill, where a wood existed in 1393 and 1539; a fragment of oak woodland survives in Hanger Hill Park. The station opened in 1947 and was named Hanger Lane because it was near that road.

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Sources

  1. Hanger Lane Wikipedia
  2. Ealing and Brentford: Growth of Ealing (VCH Middlesex vol. 7) British History Online
  3. Hanger Hill Hidden London
  4. Hanger Hill Wikipedia
  5. Hanger Lane tube station Wikipedia
  6. How the Central line stations got their names Londonist

This text was written with the help of AI from the sources above and checked against them.