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unusual facts about Wormwood Scrubs


West London Line

The NLL and WLL would meet at a point on the southern side of Old Oak Common, adjacent to Wormwood Scrubs, where new interchange platforms would be built.


Agriculture in London

Many areas which now form part of Greater London were formerly rural and agricultural outskirts but still bear names which indicate this past: Ealing Common, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Shepherd's Bush and Wormwood Scrubs, for example.

Tom Ruane

After his release, he was arrested in 1918 in connection with the German Plot, this time in Wormwood Scrubs and Winson Green.


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Athletics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon

The full Olympic route was thus from Windsor, via Eton, Slough, Langley, Uxbridge, Ickenham, Ruislip, Harrow, Sudbury, Wembley, Willesden, and Wormwood Scrubs, to White City Stadium.

Michael Randle

During his time in Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1962-3, he became friends with George Blake, the British MI6 agent condemned in 1961 to forty-two years imprisonment for passing information to the Soviet Union.