As with surroundings in Harrow, Wembley and Kingsbury, the area was a product of Metroland suburbia of the early 20th century.

[5] The Plough public house was Kenton's first, opening in the early 18th century; the current building is not the original.

It functions mainly as a land drain devoid of wildlife until it reaches Woodcock Park and was previously heavily polluted by run-off water and illicit connections from adjacent houses; a 2013 Thames Water project[7] in the vicinity of Woodcock Park identified 140 premises discharging into the Brook.

Source: The London County Council built the Kenmore Park cottage estate between the wars.

Thomas Francis Nash owned building companies which from the 1920s onward built numerous private housing estates in Kenton, Ruislip and other parts of the "Metroland" area of Middlesex.

Local estate agents still use the term "Nash-built" or "Costin-built" to describe properties built by them in Kenton.

The song refers to the "pleasant valley" high suburban boredom factor then prevalent in the area, and cites local characters and places, some fairly well known.

The song was written by Paul Bonin, Philip Ulysses Sanders and Melanie Hickford, all of whom grew up and lived in the area.

[1] The Kenton ward in Brent has a female life expectancy of 91.6 years, which is the third-highest in Greater London.

[2] Kenton East also has the lowest proportion of bicycle commuters in Greater London, amounting to only 0.2% of the population.

It was originally built as a mission church for St Mary's, used by the Orthodox community from 1989, and acquired fully in 1994.