Bollo Lane is a street in

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Chiswick Park tube station Chiswick Park is a London Underground station in the Acton Green district of Chiswick in West London. The station is served by the District line and is between Turnham Green and Acton Town stations. It is located at the junction of Bollo Lane a ...

to Acton Town tube station. It is one of the oldest streets in the area, the name dating back to the Bollobridge over

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in the twelfth century. The earliest reference to the street is as Bolhollane in 1408, the name meaning the "lane at Bull Hollow". It marks the boundary between the London Borough of Ealing to the north and the London Borough of Hounslow to the south.Talling p.62 The Bollo pub is located in the street nearer to the Chiswick Park end.

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Bibliography

* Knights, David and Amanda. ''Acton Through Time''. Amberley Publishing Limited, 2012. * Mills, A.D. '' Dictionary of London Place Names''. Oxford University Press, 2001. * Pevsner, Nikolaus. ''London 2: South''. Penguin, 1973. * Talling, Paul. ''London's Lost Rivers: a beautifully illustrated guide to London's secret rivers''. Random House, 2020. Streets in the London Borough of Ealing Streets in the London Borough of Hounslow Acton, London {{London-road-stub