Western Avenue, London

Western Avenue is approximately 10 miles (16 km) long from its junction with Old Oak Common Lane in East Acton.

A notable landmark on Western Avenue at Perivale, near Greenford, is the Art Deco Hoover Building,[1] now a Tesco supermarket and 66 homes.

[3] When first constructed, all intersections with other roads were flat junctions with roundabouts, resulting in significant congestion at busy periods.

The first major junction is Gypsy Corner (with the A4000, 0.8 miles (1.3 km)), connecting northwards to Park Royal and Harlesden and southwards to Acton town centre.

On Tuesday 13 August 1996, in a very unusual accident, a Lear Jet landing at the airfield overshot the runway and ended up crashing into a van that just happened to be passing on the A40.