[2] It today forms the southern part of larger Southall, named after the main manor which lay in the north of its area which is south of Northolt parish.
[6] The New Zealand bass player Gary Thain of the band Uriah Heep died of a heroin overdose here on 8 December 1975.
A public house, The Plough, is grade II, (i.e. in the initial category) its hand drawn beers have been mentioned in an annual CAMRA selection.
[9] Friars Lawn, a Georgian house, overlooks the Green, once a home of Gordon Selfridge of the retail family, and of the actress Hayley Mills.
Here north-south Windmill Lane goes over the Grand Union Canal (locally fed by the Welsh Harp Reservoir) on a gentle west–east reach towards the Thames at Brentford in turn above a single-track, freight, railway running from the main Great Western Main Line to just north of the major A4 road at Brentford.
Route H32 runs through the Western edge of Norwood Green ward (Hounslow Bus Garage to Southall Town Hall).
Northwards it is just under a mile Southall railway station (Elizabeth line trains towards Heathrow Airport and Reading, and towards Abbey Wood and Shenfield via London Paddington).
The M4 motorway is accessed 2 miles (3.2 km) east for Central London the same distance west for Heathrow and western destinations.
The area is part of the parliamentary constituency of Ealing Southall, represented since 2007 by Labour Member of Parliament Virendra Sharma.