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Index of Places The 350 localities and attractions featured on Hidden London The places listed below are in the Gazetteer section unless marked as being in The Guide Places in the Gazetteer section are mostly localities, while those in the Guide tend to be smaller – often an individual structure. Some places in the Guide are double-indexed, to help you find them more easily. A few listed places have yet to be added, so they don’t yet have a h…
Ruislip Common, Hillingdon An amenity area situated at the northern end of the Ruislip district, bordered on most sides by Ruislip Woods Evidence of late Bronze Age occupation has been found at Ruislip Common. Poor’s Field was first recorded as common wasteland in 1295. Ruislip Common once had a hamlet called Park Hearne, with a number of half-timbered cottages that were lost when the valley was flooded by the Regent’s Canal Company to create…
Wood End, Hillingdon Now the north-central part of Hayes, with community facilities Barra Hall While Wood End’s name is broadly self-explanatory, John Field suggests in Place Names of Greater London that it may specifically allude to the ‘part of the woodland for 400 swine referred to in the Domesday Book description of the manor of Hayes’. Although there is evidence of Anglo-Saxon settlement in nearby Hayes, Yeading and Botwell, no menti…
Cranford, Hounslow/Hillingdon A Heathrow satellite community, lying between Hounslow and Hayes Cranford’s claustrophobic Round House, in which local miscreants were once locked up for the night An early Saxon settlement on what became known as Hounslow Heath, the manor of Cranforde is mentioned in Domesday Book and was later described as the prettiest village in Middlesex. By 1274 there was a bridge carrying the Bath Road over the River Cran…
… of community. The impact of a strip club’s arrival in an area popular with young families was the subject of a television documentary in 1999. There is another Brackenbury Village in north Ickenham, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, but the name is not widely used. Aylsham Drive is its main thoroughfare. Postal district: W6 …
Harmondsworth, Hillingdon A Heathrow satellite village located south of West Drayton Harmondsworth village green, with the church of St Mary the Virgin Evidence has been found here of Iron Age huts and sixth-century Saxon dwellings. In 1069 William the Conqueror gave the parish church and the manor to the Benedictine Abbey of Holy Trinity, Rouen, later known as St Catherine’s. The abbey rebuilt the church and the oldest parts of the present s…
Longford, Hillingdon A village located at the north-western corner of Heathrow Airport, one mile south-west of Harmondsworth Ash Tree Cottage on Bath Road in Longford Longford’s name comes from an oblique crossing over the River Colne, and was for many years written – and pronounced – as two separate words. The village grew up as a halt on the Bath Road and had 30 houses by 1337, but development was limited by the susceptibility to floodi…
Newyears Green, Hillingdon A scattered collection of small farms and civic amenities situated north of Ickenham and west of Ruislip, and surrounded on all sides by green-belt farmland Parts of Newyears Green are properly rustic The origin of the Newyears Green name, which is also spelt as three separate words, is uncertain. It is probably a corruption of a landowner’s name but may refer to annual festivities – which would have been held on ‘L…
Stockley Park, Hillingdon A business park with surrounding leisure facilities, situated north of the Grand Union Canal and one-and-a-half miles east of West Drayton Stockley Park’s pristine boulevards are almost deserted even at lunchtime on a warm weekday A 350-acre site, previously derelict, was transformed in the late 1980s into a commercial science park, now regarded as the foremost development on the ‘West London Corridor’. It pr…
Ruislip Manor, Hillingdon The south-eastern part of Ruislip, bordering Eastcote Quintessential London suburbia, right down to the street name: Acacia Avenue in Ruislip Manor A wooden halt opened at Ruislip Manor in 1912, when this was still open countryside. The station was completely rebuilt in its present form in 1938, to a design by Charles Holden. Virtually all of Ruislip Manor was laid out as a single private housing estate by George B…
