Ealing, London: Pitzhanger Manor, Ealing Studios, Wharncliffe Viaduct and the Southall gurdwara

One square mile carries the borough's name, and it holds a Soane villa, the park that was its garden, a working film studio and a theatre company with two auditoria. Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery is at Ealing Green, W5 5EQ, and is listed Grade I as NHLE 1358808, first listed on 24 February 1950. Soane bought the estate in 1800 and rebuilt the house as his own country villa between 1800 and 1804, with most of the work complete by late 1803; he had worked on the surviving south wing years earlier as an apprentice to George Dance the Younger. The entrance archway and gates at the north-east end of the park are a separate Grade I entry, NHLE 1079350, listed on 19 January 1981, and are one of six Grade I entries inside the borough boundary. The lodge beside the archway, NHLE 1358809, and the north boundary wall to Walpole Park fronting Mattock Lane, NHLE 1358810, are both Grade II and were both listed on 19 January 1981. Ealing Urban District Council acquired the house in 1900 and opened it as a public library in April 1902; it reopened as a museum in January 1987. A restoration project begun in 2012 closed the house in March 2015, and it reopened as Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery on 16 March 2019. The house opens Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm and closes Monday and Tuesday, with the first Thursday of the month running to 8pm and a pay-what-you-can rate for Ealing borough residents between 5pm and 8pm. It closes on Christmas Day and opens 10am to 5pm on 28 December and 1 January, and the operator suggests a last entry 30 minutes before closing.

Walpole Park, entered from Mattock Lane, W5 5EQ, is a Grade II registered park and garden, NHLE 1000847, registered in 1987 over 12.33 hectares at national grid reference TQ 17397 80242. It was Soane's grounds at Pitzhanger and opened to the public for the first time on 1 May 1901. The bridge at the northern end is separately listed Grade II*, NHLE 1079351; a bench at the northern end, NHLE 1079352, and the north boundary wall, NHLE 1358810, are Grade II. The park was restored from August 2013 and reopened fully in the summer of 2014, when the ornamental lake was replaced by two ponds; the Rickyard learning centre and cafe opened in 2015. It hosts the annual Ealing Beer Festival, Comedy Festival, Blues Festival and Jazz Festival. No source states the park's opening hours, so none are given here. Walpole Park is one of three registered parks and gardens whose registered area falls inside the borough: the other two are the City of Westminster Cemetery, Hanwell, NHLE 1001543, Grade II over 9.18 hectares, and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Cemetery, Hanwell, NHLE 1001544, Grade II over 6.30 hectares, both registered in 2001 and both carrying another borough's name in Ealing.

Ealing Studios stands on the same green at Ealing Green, W5 5EP. Stages 2, 3A, 3B and 5 are listed together at Grade II as NHLE 1389249, listed on 26 June 2001, and the White House on the site is a separate Grade II entry, NHLE 1389250, listed the same day. The operator dates the site to 1902. Michael Balcon took over from Basil Dean in 1938 and ran the studio through the period of the Ealing comedies; the BBC bought the studios in 1955 for £300,000 and sold the property in 1993. It is a working studio and not a visitor attraction: no public admission or tour is published by the operator, and what a visitor sees is the frontage on Ealing Green, about 250 m from Pitzhanger Manor along the same green.

The Questors Theatre is at 12 Mattock Lane, W5 5BQ, about 200 m west of Pitzhanger Manor along Mattock Lane and on the north side of Walpole Park. The company was founded in 1929 and operates two auditoria, described by the operator as the 350-seat Judi Dench Playhouse and the 90-seat Studio theatre. The main playhouse was opened by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in April 1964 and renamed the Judi Dench Playhouse in October 2014. The building carries no entry on the National Heritage List for England and stands inside the borough-designated Ealing Green W5/W13 conservation area, one of the 30 conservation areas Ealing Council states the borough holds.

Acton is the eastern end of the borough, where Ealing runs into Chiswick along the District and Piccadilly tracks. Acton Town Underground Station, on Gunnersbury Lane, W3 8HN, is listed Grade II as NHLE 1263471, listed on 17 May 1994 under the entry name ACTON TOWN LONDON REGIONAL TRANSPORT UNDERGROUND STATION, INCLUDING SHOPPING PARADE. It was built in 1931-32 to a design by Charles Holden in brick, reinforced concrete and glass, and it is an interchange between the District and Piccadilly lines. Six further Underground stations inside the borough are listed Grade II: Park Royal, NHLE 1079328; Northfields, NHLE 1263487; Ealing Common, NHLE 1249986; North Ealing, NHLE 1390751; West Acton, NHLE 1400997; and Perivale, NHLE 1400747. They are not one architect's work. Ealing Common and Northfields belong to the Holden programme, Park Royal is by Welch and Lander, and West Acton and Perivale are later.

The London Transport Museum Depot is at 118-120 Gunnersbury Lane, W3 9BQ, about 300 m north of Acton Town station on the same road, on a site between the Piccadilly and District tracks and the Overground Mildmay line at South Acton. It is the museum's store of historic artefacts, and the museum describes it as open to the public on visitor days published through the year rather than daily. The museum's public galleries are in Covent Garden, in Westminster; the Depot is an Ealing institution, and W3 9BQ falls in the borough's South Acton ward. No source states its opening hours or its admission prices, so none are given here.

Goldsmiths' Almshouses stand on East Churchfield Road, W3 7LP, on the edge of Acton Park. The row is listed Grade II as NHLE 1358762, listed on 25 January 1951 under the entry name Goldsmiths' Almshouses and railings fronting road, and it is one of 17 Grade II listed-building entries inside the borough boundary. The obelisk in Acton Park opposite the row is a separate Grade II entry, NHLE 1079415, listed on 19 January 1981, and is described as a memorial to James Radcliffe, Earl of Derwentwater. Both stand inside Ealing Council's Acton Park conservation area.

The Gunnersbury estate is not Ealing's. Gunnersbury Park is a Grade II registered park and garden, NHLE 1000808, covering 75.33 hectares, and its centroid falls in the London Borough of Hounslow; Gunnersbury Park Museum, NHLE 1358312, Grade II, stands with it, and both of the estate's postcodes, W5 4NH and W3 8LQ, are in Hounslow. The museum is run jointly by Ealing and Hounslow, and the mansion, the museum and the park all stand over the boundary. Osterley Park, NHLE 1000287, Grade II* over 260.3 hectares, is likewise Hounslow's; Norwood Green, the southern tip of Ealing, runs down to the Osterley boundary.

The Uxbridge Road runs west across the Brent valley, and the canal, the river and the Great Western main line run with it. The Wharncliffe Viaduct carries the railway across the valley between Hanwell and Southall and is listed Grade I as NHLE 1358811, first listed on 8 November 1949. It was the first major structure Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed and was built in 1836-37: eight semi-elliptical arches each spanning 70 ft (21 m), a deck 20 m (66 ft) above the ground, and a structure 270 m (890 ft) long and 17 m (56 ft) wide. It was widened in 1877 by an extra row of piers and arches on the north side, and the broad gauge was converted to standard gauge in 1892, which is when there was width for four standard-gauge tracks. Its piers are hollow and are used as a bat roost. The viaduct has no postcode of its own; the addressed public access on the Hanwell side is Brent Lodge Park, Church Road, W7 3BP.

The Hanwell flight of locks is a scheduled monument, NHLE 1001963, scheduled in 1975 under the name Hanwell flight of locks and brick boundary wall of St Bernard's Hospital, covering 0.56 hectares across seven national grid references. As a scheduled monument it carries no Grade. The flight is six locks on the Grand Union Canal and raises the water by just over 53 ft (16.2 m). Windmill Bridge, the three-level structure at the top of the flight where the canal, the Brentford branch railway and the road cross, is separately scheduled as NHLE 1002020 on 26 January 1970 over 0.22 hectares; it is Brunel's work and is the structure known locally as Three Bridges. Four lock-keepers' cottages on the flight are individually listed Grade II - lock 92, NHLE 1189276; lock 93, NHLE 1079418; lock 95, NHLE 1294339; and lock 97, NHLE 1358765 - and the walls, gates, sluices and bridge at lock 90 are Grade II, NHLE 1358764. The nearest postcode to the scheduled centroid is UB2 4NH, off the Uxbridge Road.

St Bernard's Hospital stands on the Uxbridge Road, UB1 3EU, above the canal. It is listed Grade II as NHLE 1079364, listed on 25 June 1985, and the entrance archway and two lodges, NHLE 1189532, the west lodge, NHLE 1079346, and the chapel, NHLE 1358806, are separate Grade II entries. Its brick boundary wall is part of the scheduled monument for the lock flight, NHLE 1001963, so the wall is scheduled where the buildings are listed. It opened in 1831 as the first Middlesex County Asylum, to a design by William Alderson, built for 450 patients with space for 150 more, and full within six months. John Conolly, its third superintendent, arrived in 1839 and had abolished mechanical restraint at Hanwell by September of that year, setting out the method in The Treatment of the Insane without Mechanical Restraints. It remains a working NHS site under West London NHS Trust alongside Ealing Hospital, and what a visitor sees is the frontage from the Uxbridge Road and the canal towpath.

Southall Manor House stands on The Green, UB2 4BJ, and is listed Grade II as NHLE 1079419, first listed on 8 November 1949. The building dates back to at least 1587 and much of its original fabric survives, a timber-framed survival on a high street otherwise rebuilt. It is in use as serviced offices and the grounds around it are open as Manor House Gardens. The former Norwood Free School at Norwood Green, about 1.3 km south-east, is Grade II, NHLE 1079381, listed on 29 September 1976.

Gurdwara Sri Guru Singh Sabha is on Guru Nanak Road, UB2 4NP. The building opened on Sunday 30 March 2003, cost £17.5 million, holds 3,000 people and was designed by Architects CoPartnership; the then Prince of Wales visited in June 2003. It is open to visitors from 3am to 9pm daily, and the organisation reports 50,000 visitors weekly. The same organisation operates from two further sites in the borough, at Park Avenue, UB1 3AG, and Norwood Hall, Norwood Green Road, UB2 4LA. There are ten Sikh places of worship inside the borough boundary, among them Ramgarhia Sabha on Oswald Road, Shri Guru Ravi Dass Sabha on Western Road and Gurdwara Miri Piri Sahib on The Broadway. The 2021 census recorded Sikhs as 28.5 per cent of Southall's population and Muslims as 24.1 per cent. The building carries no entry on the National Heritage List for England: it was completed in 2003.

The Himalaya Palace Cinema is on South Road, UB1 1SU, and is listed Grade II* as NHLE 1079380, listed on 18 September 1980 under the entry name LIBERTY CINEMA. It carries three names: the Wikidata item holding that list entry number is labelled Palace Cinema, and the building today is the Himalaya Palace Shopping Centre. It ran for years as a Bollywood cinema before conversion and is now in retail use, so what a visitor comes for is the Chinese-style facade on South Road.

This is the A40 and Central line half of the borough, where three medieval parish churches survive on their hills within sight of a 1930s factory front and a park built from a demolished stadium: St Mary's Perivale, St Mary the Virgin at Northolt, and the old Church of the Holy Cross at Greenford, which is listed Grade I as NHLE 1294306. The Hoover Building stands on Western Avenue, Perivale, UB6 8AT. The main front block is listed Grade II as NHLE 1079353, listed on 10 October 1980, and the canteen block is a separate Grade II entry, NHLE 1079361, listed on 7 May 1981. Five further Grade II entries cover the setting rather than the factory: the forecourt piers, gates and railings, NHLE 1079363; the gates and three gate piers at the entry gateway, NHLE 1079360; the gates, four gate piers and railings at the main entrance fronting Western Avenue, NHLE 1079362; the gates and two gate piers at the exit, NHLE 1249789; and two gate piers and railings on the corner of Western Avenue and Rydal Crescent, NHLE 1249807. The building was completed in 1933 to a design by Wallis, Gilbert and Partners as the Hoover Company's UK headquarters, factory and repairs centre, employing 1,600 people at the outset, and the canteen followed in 1938. Tesco bought the site in 1989, demolishing northern sections for a supermarket and refurbishing the main block; IDM Properties acquired it in 2015 and converted the main block into 66 flats in 2017-18. It is a residential and retail building, and the Art Deco frontage on the A40 is seen from the public highway.

St Mary's Perivale is on Perivale Lane, UB6 8SS, and is listed Grade I as NHLE 1079402, first listed on 24 February 1950 under the entry name Church of St Mary the Virgin. The fabric is 12th or 13th century, of rag-stone and flint, with the tower clad in white weatherboarding; Wikidata records an inception of 1250. The parish was dissolved and the church closed for worship in 1972. It is now run by the charity Friends of St Mary and used as an arts centre for classical music and exhibitions, and its three bells were cast in 1949 as a Second World War memorial. The operator publishes a fixed concert timetable rather than opening hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2pm and Sundays at 3pm, with concerts also streamed.

St Mary the Virgin, Northolt, stands above the old village green on Ealing Road, UB5 6AA, and is listed Grade I as NHLE 1079414, first listed on 24 February 1950. It was built around 1290 and its nave measures 15 yards (14 m) by 8 yards (7.3 m). The square bell turret with its broach spire is early 16th century, and the octagonal stone font is 14th century with a wooden cover dated 1624. It holds brasses to Henry Rowdell, who died in 1452, and to Isaiah Bures, vicar from 1596 to 1610, a 17th-century carving of the Stuart arms on the east wall, and four early 17th-century bells with a sanctus bell cast in 1626. Twin brick buttresses were added around 1718 to stop the church sliding down its hill. The Northolt Manor moated site lies below the church behind the village green and is a scheduled monument, NHLE 1001978, scheduled on 16 December 1982 over 0.97 hectares: a 14th-century manor excavated from the 1950s onwards, with the archaeological evidence pointing to an 8th-century Saxon village close to the manor rather than on the moated site itself.

Northala Fields is on Kensington Road, Northolt, UB5 6UR. It opened in 2008 as part of the Northolt and Greenford Countryside Park, and its four conical hills were built from rubble taken from the original Wembley Stadium, which closed in 2000 and was demolished in 2003. The park holds fishing lakes, playing fields, a children's play area and a cafe, and it backs onto Rectory Park beside the A40 Western Avenue. Its name comes from Northala, the form in which the manor of Northolt was written into Domesday Book in 1086. It carries no entry of any kind on the National Heritage List for England. No source states its opening hours, so none are given here.

Ealing is served by three Underground lines - Central, District and Piccadilly - by the Elizabeth line along the Great Western corridor at Acton Main Line, Ealing Broadway, West Ealing, Hanwell and Southall, by Great Western Railway on the Greenford branch and the relief lines, and by the Overground Mildmay line at Acton Central and South Acton. The borough has no DLR station and no tram stop. Sudbury Town Underground station carries a Sudbury address on the Piccadilly line and stands in the London Borough of Brent, not in Ealing.

For Ealing Green and the Broadway, Ealing Broadway Rail Station, on the Elizabeth line and Great Western Railway, and Ealing Broadway Underground Station, on the Central and District lines, stand 25 m and 38 m from the town-centre point on the Broadway. North Ealing on the Piccadilly line is about 951 m from the Broadway and West Ealing about 1,097 m. From Ealing Green, at the Pitzhanger Manor and Ealing Studios end, South Ealing on the Piccadilly line is about 779 m and Ealing Broadway about 844 m.

For Acton, Acton Town Underground Station on the District and Piccadilly lines is on Gunnersbury Lane, about 300 m from the London Transport Museum Depot, and South Acton on the Overground Mildmay line is about 775 m from the Depot. From Acton High Street and Acton Park, Acton Central on the Mildmay line is about 411 m, South Acton about 735 m and Acton Main Line, on the Elizabeth line and Great Western Railway, about 1,244 m. Chiswick Park on the District line is about 1,250 m from Acton Town.

For Hanwell, Southall and the Brent valley, Southall Rail Station takes the Elizabeth line and Great Western Railway and is about 470 m from Southall Manor House and the gurdwara on Guru Nanak Road, and about 485 m from the Himalaya Palace on South Road. Hanwell Rail Station, on the Elizabeth line, is about 489 m from the Wharncliffe Viaduct, about 971 m from St Bernard's Hospital, about 1,048 m from the lock flight and about 1,433 m from Windmill Bridge; the locks are a walk in from the station rather than a doorstep arrival. Drayton Green, on Great Western Railway, is about 1,262 m from the viaduct.

For Perivale, Greenford and Northolt, Perivale Underground Station on the Central line is about 516 m from the Hoover Building and about 644 m from St Mary's Perivale. Northolt Underground Station, also on the Central line, is about 585 m from St Mary the Virgin, about 474 m from the Northolt Manor moated site and about 1,197 m from Northala Fields. Around Greenford, Greenford Rail Station on Great Western Railway is about 865 m from the Church of the Holy Cross and Greenford Underground Station on the Central line about 870 m, with South Greenford, also on Great Western Railway, about 931 m. South Greenford is about 1,228 m from the Hoover Building, and Castle Bar Park, on Great Western Railway too, about 1,115 m from St Mary's Perivale. Each figure is measured from the place it serves, and every distance above is a straight-line approximation rather than a walking measurement.