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Coordinates: 51°32'18?N 0°19'09?W? / ?51.5383, -0.3192
Perivale, Middlesex, is a small suburb 10 miles (16 km) west of central London in the London Borough of Ealing. Perivale is part of the Greenford post town. Until the 15th century it was called Greenford Parva (Little Greenford). Landmarks in the suburb include the A40, a large road that connects central London with the M40 motorway, and the large Art Deco Hoover building, as well as St Mary's Church (C:15th century), the River Brent and Perivale Wood Bird Reserve run by the Selborne Society.
A large part of Perivale is used in the form of a business and industrial park. Although mainly residential, there are some office blocks and parades of shops on Bilton Road, A40 slip road and in the Medway Village. It is home to one of the first American-style diners in the UK called Starvin' Marvin's. Perivale is also home to two golf courses; Ealing Golf Club and Perivale Golf Course.
Before the 1930s residential building expansion, the fields of Perivale were used to grow hay for the working horses of Victorian London, a scene described in the ending of John Betjeman's poem 'Return to Ealing':
"...And a gentle gale from Perivale/blows up the hayfield scent."
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Perivale was the setting for the 1989 season twenty-six Doctor Who serial Survival as the hometown of the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace. There were several locations used in and around town during filming which included Bleasdale Avenue, Medway Parade, Colwyn Avenue, Woodhouse Avenue, Children's Play Area, Ealing Central Sports Ground, Horsenden Lane South, and the nearby Horsenden Hill.
Victorian Perivale was also the location of a manor which was the setting of another season twenty-six serial, Ghost Light.
Parts of the film Snatch were also filmed in Perivale and the nearby Horsenden Hill.
Henry Perowne, the principal character in Ian McEwan's novel Saturday was born in Perivale, though he lived in London during the events of the novel.
'Only Fools and Horses' used Horsenden Hill for location shooting in the episode where Del Boy and Rodney 'look after' Marlene and Boysie's dog (only to feed it reheated pork and give it food poisoning).
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Perivale has a station on the Central line on the London Underground system and two bus routes (E5 and 297) that link the town to Greenford, Wembley, Ealing, Willesden and Southall. There's also the N11 nightbus linking Perivale to central London.
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