What is Hanger Lane?
[[File:Hanger Lane, W5 - geograph.org.uk - 369075.jpg|thumb|Hanger Lane]] '''Hanger Lane''' is a major road in [[Ealing]], [[London]]. Most of the road forms the most west part of the A406 [[North Circular Road]]. Hanger Lane runs north from the A4020 Uxbridge Road at [[Ealing Common]] to the [[A40 road in London|A40 Western Avenue]] at the [[Hanger Lane gyratory]]. This busy junction has the [[Hanger Lane tube station|Hanger Lane Underground station]] in the middle of it. That station serves the [[Central line (London Underground)|Central line]]. Hanger Lane continues north along the A4005 to Vicar's Bridge and the border with [[Alperton]] in the [[London Borough of Brent]]. The road takes its name from [[Hanger Hill]], which is also the name of the area around it.<ref>Ordnance Survey Map, First Series, Sheet 7, 1856, 1:63360</ref> The name comes from the [[Old English]] word ''hangra'', meaning a wooded slope. == References == {{reflist}} {{authority control}} [[Category:Roads in London]] {{uk-stub}}