 It is the most populated ward in Brent with a population over 17,000 with the majority of Afro-Caribbean heritage.The area was named after a stone bridge built in the later 17th century (when most bridges were of wood) over the River Brent to the north.The exclusive Craven Park Estate of large houses was built in the 1860s and later, roughly at the same time as the Midland Railway constructed the Dudding Hill Line (now a freight line), which gave its new residents access to central London.