Great and Little Northfields were two large fields in the late Middle Ages, lying in the extreme west of Ealing parish.

Today the area is served by the Piccadilly line from Northfields tube station designed by architect Charles Holden and by the E2 and E3 bus services running to Greenford, Ealing, Brentford, Hanwell, Acton and Chiswick, and the N11, a night bus to Central London.

The arrival of the District Railway in 1883, and the opening of the Northfields Halt in 1908, prompted development of the area.

[5] Between 1815 and 1817 John Quincy Adams, later to become the 6th President of the United States lived with his family at Little Boston House in Windmill Road in Little Ealing in Northfields.

[6] The pop singer Dusty Springfield was a pupil at St Anne's Convent School on Little Ealing Lane in the 1950s.