Castlebar Hill is a hill in Ealing which is 167 feet (51 m) high.[2] In the 18th century, it was the location of Castle Beare, a grand mansion or country seat, for the area at this time was but a hamlet, not yet having been built up as part of the Londonconurbation.[3]
Castle Bear House in 1795 which was subsequently owned by Lt. General Frederick Wetherall. His friend, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, owned Castle Hill Lodge nearby. Ealing Abbey now stands upon this site.[1]
Castlebar Hill is also the name of one of the roads that runs up the hill (now classed as part of the B455).
^ abDrawn View of the Seat of -------- Smith, Esq. At Castle Bear near Ealing, Europeana, archived from the original on 13 February 2013
^Brown, J. A. (1886). "The Thames-valley Surface-deposits of the Ealing District and their associated Palaeolithic Floors". Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. 42 (1–4): 192–200. doi:10.1144/GSL.JGS.1886.042.01-04.22. S2CID 140624709.
^Unveiling by Mr Peter McKelvie MD ChM FRCS FRCS Ed DLO. (PDF). Ealing Civic Society. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2016.
^ abcdWalter Jerrold (1909), Highways and Byways in Middlesex, Macmillan, pp. 370–371
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