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Oakington History

Oakington Manor was built in 1937, however it was not all built at the same time.

The oldest part of the school is the Main building. Next, just after the war, the white huts were built. This was about 1946. Then, as more children came to the school, the pink and brown huts were built.

The school stayed like that for about 20 or 30 years. In 1995 the school had a new hall and kitchen. Soon after new blocks for EYFS, Acorn Nursery and Year 6 blocks were added. in 2020, the school added a brand new build comprising of an adminstrative block, additional learning spaces, customised canteen and a spacious staff room.

Oakington Manor Farm

Gordon S Maxwell’s The Fringe of London (published 1925) talks of the small Middlesex hamlet of Monks Park, alongside the river Brent to the south of Oakington Farm.

In 1845, Richard Welford, a cow keeper from Holloway, took over Warwick Farm, Paddington and founded what was to become J Welford & Sons Ltd. His dairy business became the largest retail milk business in the capital. The farm’s cowsheds were situated between the Harrow Road and what is now Warwick Crescent. The fields of Warwick Farm were built over and became Warwick Avenue, Warwick Place and Warwick Crescent.

In the mid 1850s, the Warwick Farm cowsheds were moved to Oakington Manor Farm in Wembley.

The farm was situated almost next to Watkin’s Folly in Wembley Park. What was later South Way was the farm’s access track but in 1906, the Great Central Railway built a new railway line separating Oakington from Wembley Park and its farm track.

By the turn of the twentieth century, the lord of the manor and thus owner of the farm was Sir Audley Neeld who later became known as a builder throughout London. Neeld began a Wembley ‘garden city’ estate in 1914. Work was immediately interrupted by the First World War and resumed afterwards.

Neeld further extended the estate in 1932 until the remaining 21 acres of his manor house was surrounded by his own building. He gave the house to Wembley Council but at the turn of the Second World War, it was blown up in an air raid exercise. The site of Oakington Farm is now Sherrans Farm Open Space.