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Dollis Hill

Dollis Hill is an area of north-west London

London

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. It lies close to Willesden

Willesden

London Borough of Brent

The London Borough of Brent is a London borough in North-West London, UK and forms part of Outer London.It borders London Borough of Harrow to the northwest, London Borough of Barnet to the northeast, London Borough of Camden to the east and London Borough of Ealing, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, Royal Borough of Kensington and...
. As a result, Dollis Hill is sometimes referred as being part of Willesden

Willesden

Willesden is an area in North West London which forms part of the London Borough of Brent. It is situated 5 miles north west of Charing Cross. The suburb has strong links to Ireland and has a sizable Irish population....
, especially by the national press. Dollis Hill consists of the streets surrounding Gladstone Park, formerly the estate belonging to Dollis Hill House.

History
The Dollis Hill Estate was formed in the early 19th century, when the Finch family bought up a number of farms in the area to form a single estate.

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Dollis Hill is an area of north-west London

London

Willesden

London Borough of Brent

Willesden

History

The Dollis Hill Estate was formed in the early 19th century, when the Finch family bought up a number of farms in the area to form a single estate. Dollis Hill House

Dollis Hill House

Dollis Hill House is an early Nineteenth Century farmhouse located in the North London suburb of Dollis Hill. Noteworthy guests such as William Gladstone and Mark Twain have been entertained there....
itself was built in the 1820s.

In World War I

World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
the tank design team responsible for the new Anglo-American or Liberty tank, Mark VIII

Mark VIII (tank)

The Tank Mark VIII or Liberty was an Anglo-American tank design of the First World War. Initially intended to be a collaborative effort to equip France, the UK and the US with a single tank design, it did not come to fruition before the end of the war and only a few were produced....
was located here.

The code-breaking Colossus computer

Colossus computer

The Colossus machines were electronics computing devices used by British Cryptanalysis to read encrypted Nazi Germany messages during World War II....
, used at Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire. Since 1967, Bletchley has been part of Milton Keynes, England....
during the Second World War, was built at the Post Office Research Station

Post Office Research Station

The General Post Office Research Station at Dollis Hill, London, was first established in 1921 and opened by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in 1933....
in Dollis Hill by a team led by Tommy Flowers

Tommy Flowers

Thomas Harold Flowers, Order of the British Empire was an England engineer. During World War II, Flowers designed Colossus computer, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages....
. The station was relocated to Martlesham Heath

Martlesham Heath

Martlesham Heath village is situated 6 miles east of Ipswich, in Suffolk, England. This was an ancient area of heathland and latterly the site of Martlesham Heath Airfield....
at the end of the 1970s. The Post Office Research Station building has now been converted into 62 flats and is now known as 'Chartwell Court'.

A World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
bunker

Bunker

A military bunker is a hardened shelter, often buried partly or fully underground, designed to protect the inhabitants from falling bombs or other attacks....
for Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, Order of the Garter, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour, Territorial Decoration, Fellow of the Royal Society, Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, Queen's Privy Council for Canada was a Politics of the United Kingdom known chiefly for his leadership of the United King...
called Paddock

Paddock (war rooms)

Paddock is the codeword for an alternate Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms bunker for Winston Churchill World War II government. Located in Dollis Hill, North London, it was constructed in 1939 but only rarely used during the war, with only two meetings of the War Cabinet being held there....
is located here.

Famous residents

William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone was a United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Liberal Party statesman and four times Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ....
, the UK Prime Minister

Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
, was a frequent visitor to Dollis Hill House in the late 19th century. The year after his death, 1899, Willesden Council acquired much of the Dollis Hill Estate for use as a public park, which was named Gladstone Park.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an United Statesmerican author and humorist. Twain is most noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which has since been called the Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer....
stayed in Dollis Hill House in the summer of 1900. He wrote that 'Dollis Hill comes nearer to being a paradise than any other home I ever occupied'.

British electronica artists the Future Sound of London and 4 Hero

4 Hero

4hero are an electronic music band from Dollis Hill, North London, comprising of Dego, Mark 'Marc Mac' Clair, Gus Lawrence, and Ian Bardouille. While the band is often cited as 4 Hero , 4hero is the style of the name used on the band's albums and website....
both hail from the area.

Fictional references

The fictional Dollis Hill Football Club features occasionally in the British satirical magazine Private Eye
Private eye

A private eye is a nickname for a private investigator. It may also refer to:*Private Eye, a fortnightly British satirical magazine-newspaper, edited by Ian Hislop...
as arch-rivals to Neasden Football Club

Neasden F.C.

Neasden F.C. are a spoof football team, the subject of a long-running joke in the United Kingdom satire magazine, Private Eye. They were invented by Barry Fantoni to satirize the clich?s and hyperbole of football journalism and were once a regular item in the magazine, but now appear only at times of significant public interest in footba...
, with on at least one occasion the fictional Dollis Hill South council ward used in the irregular 'Those Election Results In Full' mock section.