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Twyford will soon benefit from a new public plaza with shops, cafes, a restaurant and health and fitness club. There will also be new public play, games and fitness areas in West Twyford Park. There will be an improved pedestrian/cycle route from West Twyford to Park Royal Underground station,
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Twyford Park was formerly called Bodiam Fields, after the area of the same name in Sussex, where hops were grown for the Guinness brewery. There are plans for improvements to West Twyford Park as well as new lakeside walks and cycle paths nearby. The
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in order to house employees working in at the brewery in Park Royal. Abbeyfields Close is one such residential development, built in 1984 around a series of communal gardens, on land formerly owned by
Guinness.
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Twyford is well served for groceries, banking, post office and health services at the nearby 'Park Royal Neighbourhood Centre' where there is also a Lebanese Restaurant, a Spice Shack restaurant and
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from 1894. In 1901 it occupied an area of 281 acres (1.14 km) and had a population of 97. When the urban district was abolished in 1926 the parish was transferred to the
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took over the manor house as a nursing home. The brothers ran short of funds in 1988 and joined another part of their order in
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