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Harmondsworth is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon in the county of Greater London with a short border to the south onto London Heathrow Airport. The village has no railway stations, but adjoins the
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and the
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(the Bath Road). Harmondsworth was in the historic county of
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until 1965. It is an ancient parish that once included the large hamlets of Heathrow,
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and
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. Longford and Sipson have modern signposts and facilities as separate villages, remaining to a degree interdependent such as for schooling. The
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and parish church are medieval buildings in the village. The largest proportion of land in commercial use is related to air transport and hospitality. The village includes public parkland with footpaths and abuts the River Colne and biodiverse land in its Regional Park to the west, once the grazing meadows and woodlands used for hogs of
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. The west of the parish has two major airline headquarters (international and local) and two
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centres: the larger is for a maximum of 620 men without leave (permission) to enter or remain in the United Kingdom. Many international visitors stay within the church-based bounds of Harmondsworth, as all hotels are branded as "Heathrow", a former hamlet and other farmsteads that were absorbed by the airport. In October 2016 it was announced by HM Government that Heathrow Airport would receive permission to apply for a third runway. According to current expansion plans, around half of the existing village of Harmondsworth will have to be demolished to make way for the north-west runway and surrounding grass
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. The other half, including the parish church and Great Barn, will be only a few metres from the airport perimeter.


History

Harmondsworth is mentioned in Domesday Book, its name coming from the
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''Heremōdes worþ'', meaning "Heremōd's
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", or ''Heremundes worþ'', meaning "Heremund's
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". Harmondsworth remains an
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, with the name first recorded in AD 780 when King Offa granted land to his servant Aeldred. Before 1066 the manor was owned by Harold Godwinson (Earl Harold), and at the Conquest (1066) it passed to William I. In 1069 it was granted by the king, on the suggestion of William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (c. 1020–1071),''The Cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Early Medieval Europe'', by Christine Walsh, Ashgate, 2007, p. 125. to the
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Abbey of Holy Trinity, Rouen, afterwards known as St. Catherine's, which held it in 1086 and then until 1391. The manor and
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(this grant did not include the knight's fees held in the king's hands nor the property farmed out by the priory), together with those of
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(Buckinghamshire), were acquired from the abbey and prior in 1391 by
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, Bishop of Winchester, and formed part of the endowment of Winchester College and New College, Oxford, aka ''St. Mary College of Winchester in Oxford''. Winchester College and New College retained the manor until 1543 when it was surrendered to Henry VIII in exchange for property elsewhere. In 1547 the lordship and manor was granted to William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, KG, PC. The Pagets held on to the manor until the eighteenth century, selling most of early during the time of the heir of
Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (22 January 1719 – 16 November 1769) was a British nobleman, styled Lord Paget from 1742 to 1743. The only son of Thomas Paget, Lord Paget, and his wife Lady Elizabeth, he was commissioned a cornet in the 1st ...
(1719–1769), Henry Bayley-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (1744–1812). William, Lord Paget (1609–1678) sold some of it in 1672. Via his daughter Penelope Foley the Pagets were ancestors of
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. Harmondsworth as an ancient parish of 30 hides (as assessed at Domesday, 1086) or (rather than today's surviving village nucleus) changed from agrarian and a few, isolated London suburban homes to mostly industrial gradually in 1929 with the opening of the Colnbrook by-pass which by-passed diminutive Longford to the north. Harmondsworth civil parish from its 1880s creation until its 1964 abolition contained the same areas as its religious counterpart. Industrial development began in 1930 with the opening of the Road Research Laboratory (RRL) on this road. In the same year, the
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opened an airfield, the Great West Aerodrome, south-west of Heathrow. This formed the nucleus of the later airport, and the Fairey hangar was eventually incorporated into Heathrow Airport as a fire station. By the late 1930s some residential building had taken place, although almost entirely in the northern half of the parish. Small estates were built off Hatch Lane around Candover Close and Zealand Avenue and further building took place along Sipson Road, around Blunts Avenue, and along the north side of the Bath Road at
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Green.
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remained virtually untouched. A brick-works was established by the corner of Cain's Lane and Heathrow Road and the area of former heathland was extensively worked for gravel, sand, and grit. In the 1930s Middlesex County Council opened a large sewage pumping station to the west of Perry Oaks, which was converted to
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in the early 21st century. The Great South West Road touched the south-east corner of the parish but played no part in its development. Although many of the orchards survived, their numbers had been greatly reduced and it seems probable that much of the former fruit-growing area was being used for market gardening. In 1944 Harmondsworth and Sipson retained their agricultural character despite some suburban housing. It was then suggested that further expansion in the Yiewsley and West Drayton area should be curtailed, as the land was primarily in demand for agriculture, which was greatly adhered to until 1971. In 1944, however, the modern pattern of Harmondsworth began to emerge with the transfer of the Fairey airfield to the Royal Air Force and its subsequent development by the Air Ministry as Heathrow R.A.F. station. This entailed the complete demolition of Heathrow and Perry Oaks hamlets, and widespread draining of the old flooded gravel pits. Many of the small buildings along the south side of the Bath Road that were still standing in 1960 were erected by the R.A.F. Although not a post town, in printed form Harmondsworth is frequently seen in books. From 1937 the offices and warehouses of Penguin Books were here until their gradual closure in the 1990s. In this period its books published in the country bore the publication location, "Harmondsworth, Middlesex". In 1965 it became part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in the newly formed ceremonial county of Greater London.


Proceedings of court, 26 July 1245


Henry III Fine Rolls

Fine rolls of Henry III. *(13 January 1250): "For the abbot of Rouen. The abbot of Sainte-Trinité-du-mont-de-Rouen gives the king £10 for having seisin of the manor of Harmondsworth after the death of the abbot of the same place, his predecessor." *(18 January 1250): 18 January Westminster. "For the abbot of Sainte-Trinité-du-mont-de-Rouen. By a fine of £10 which the abbot of Sainte-Trinité-du-mont-de-Rouen has made with him, the king has rendered to him the manors of
Tingewick Tingewick is a village and civil parish about west of Buckingham in the unitary authority area of Buckinghamshire, England. The parish is bounded to the north by the River Great Ouse, to the east by a tributary of the Great Ouse, to the west by t ...
in Buckinghamshire and Harmondsworth in Middlesex, which the king caused to be taken into his hand by reason of the death of William, formerly abbot of the same place, predecessor of the aforesaid abbot. Order to Henry of Wingham and his co-escheators in the aforesaid counties to cause the aforesaid abbot to have full seisin of the aforesaid manors together with the issues received in the meantime." *(24 June 1271): 24 June Westminster. "Concerning a fine for the abbot of St Katherine's Rotom'. The king, by a fine of ten marks which the abbot of St. Katherine's de monte Rotomagen' has made with the king, has rendered the manors of Tingewik in Buckinghamshire and Harmondsworth in Middlesex which were taken into the king’s hand by reason of the death of Robert sometime abbot of the same place predecessor of the aforesaid abbot. Order to Master Richard de Clifford', escheator this side of the Trent, to cause the same abbot to have full seisin without delay of the aforesaid manors together with everything taken therefrom."


Priors of the alien priory of S. Catherine du Mont, Harmondsworth

*William, occurs 1260 *John de Walemond, occurs 1276 *Richard, occurs 1279 *William de Bosco alias de Yvelont, occurs 1297 *John de Ibelound *Humphrey le Conte-Poyntour, occurs 1317 *John de Fraunkevyle, occurs 1321 *William de Pestlamore, occurs 1329 *John Busot(is) *Roger Sorel, occurs 1342, 1345; recently dead in 1351 *John Cibe, occurs 1351; *Robert Beauchamp (Bello Campo), occurs 1352; 'late prior' in 1392 In 1390 William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, secured both papal and royal authority to acquire the lands of alien priories for his colleges, and in the following year he obtained from
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a licence for St. Catherine's Abbey to sell him all its possessions in England, apart from the Priory of Blyth. These possessions comprised the manor of Harmondsworth with the advowson of the church and vicarage, the manor of Tingewick with its advowson, the advowsons of
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and St. Leonard's, and certain yearly pensions. The Bishop sent a member of his household, Richard Altryncham, to Rouen to negotiate with the abbey and convent about this buying of the priory as an endowment for his colleges. A sale was agreed on 15 October 1391, the price being fixed at 8,400 gold francs, which were paid in 1392 through a firm of Genoese bankers. The bishop also undertook to provide for the prior Robert Beauchamp and for John le Cellier, his companion, all such things in the way of wine, food, clothing, and lodging as befitted religious of their estate for the rest of their lives. He would also furnish a chapel for the abbey. The Harmondsworth property, centered on the priory which stood to the west of Manor Farm and the tithe barn, thus became part of the endowment of his two colleges at Winchester and Oxford.


Church

The historic parish church of Harmondsworth is the church of St Mary, of which parts date from the 12th century. There is an opinion that Heathrow Airport is legally responsible for maintaining this church's chancel, because the airport now owns land (formerly in Heathrow village) which in 1819 at the enclosing of the commons had been assigned in lieu of
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s used to maintain the chancel. :Some Harmondsworth clergy: *Rev. Robert Lill De Burgh, vicar of Harmondsworth (1844–1874), and vicar of West Drayton (1844–1879). Second son of James Godfrey Lill, of Gaulstown, Co. West Meath, who took the name of De Burgh (1794), having married Catherine daughter of Fysh Coppinger, of
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, who married Easter, daughter of Cornelius Burgh, of Scarborough, and assumed by sign-manual, 1790, the surname and arms of De Burgh in consequence of his descent from William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham and the Hon. Frances Burgh, one of the daughters of Thomas Burgh, 3rd Baron Burgh, and thus one of the co-heirs to the Barony of Burgh.


Great Barn

The other notable historic building in Harmondsworth is the Grade I-
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Harmondsworth Great Barn Harmondsworth Great Barn (also known as Manor Farm Barn) is a medieval barn on the former Manor Farm in the village of Harmondsworth, in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England. It is north-west of fields and the A4 next to Heathrow Airport. B ...
, Britain's largest
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. On the site of an earlier great barn, it was put up between 1425 and 1427 on land bought by
William of Wykeham William of Wykeham (; 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of ...
, Bishop of Winchester, in 1391, to endow his colleges Winchester College and New College, Oxford. It is the largest extant timber-framed building in England and was described by the English poet John Betjeman as the "Cathedral of Middlesex". As of January 2012 the barn is owned by English Heritage. A similar barn, built 25 years later in 1451–53, but shorter (with eight bays as opposed to the Harmondsworth barn's 12), is at
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, Hampshire. This monumental barn was also built on land acquired by
William of Wykeham William of Wykeham (; 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of ...
. While the Harmondsworth barn was part of Winchester College's endowment the Burghclere barn passed to the family of
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who had married the heiress of Wykeham's great-nephew heir. It now is part of the
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estate belonging to Lord Carnarvon.


Government


Local government

* 1894: Rural districts brought in. Harmondsworth civil parish, created in the 1870s was put in
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. * 1930: Harmondsworth civil parish was transferred to
Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District Yiewsley and West Drayton was a local government district in Middlesex, England from 1929 to 1965. Its area became the south-west of the London Borough of Hillingdon. Establishment and expansion The Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District ev ...
. * 1949: Harmondsworth civil parish was merged with Yiewsley and West Drayton. * 1965:
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county was abolished. Yiewsley and West Drayton was transferred to the London Borough of Hillingdon, in Greater London. * Harmondsworth forms a minority of the Heathrow Villages
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(2008-date), which elects three councillors to Hillingdon London Borough Council and had a population of 12,199 in 2011.Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density
United Kingdom Census 2011 '' Office for National Statistics'' Retrieved 31 October 2014


United Kingdom government

There are two UK Border Agency immigration removal centres in Harmondsworth:
Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre is located in Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon. Colnbrook, adjacent to Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre and London Heathrow Airport, houses only males. Colnbrook, which opened in August 200 ...
and
Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre is an immigration detention facility in Harmondsworth, London Borough of Hillingdon, near London Heathrow Airport run by Mitie. Harmondsworth, which neighbours the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, h ...
.


Cottage Hospital

The
Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital was established in 1884 and opened in 1885. History The cottage hospital, which was halfway between Harmondsworth and Cranford on the Sipson Road, about four furlongs west of Harlington ...
was established in 1884 and opened in 1885. It was halfway between Harmondsworth and Cranford on the Sipson Road, about four furlongs west of Harlington.


Economy

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is headquartered in Waterside in Harmondsworth. The building officially opened in 1998. An office of
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occupies Orient House, Waterside. Harmondsworth has two
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: The Crown and the Five Bells. The village was formerly home to Penguin Books, from 1937.


Education

Harmondsworth Primary School is in Harmondsworth.


Transport

The area is served by various buses and by
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centred north, across the
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. The Bath Road ( A4) is the predecessor to this route and passes through the village with junctions in the neighbouring villages leading to the M4 motorway.


Demography

The area comprises well-populated and scarcely populated areas but which have differing constitutions as to the buildings in which people live and stay: hotels, homes and the two immigration control institutions (in the east and north census output areas). Thus the population fluctuates to a greater or lesser extent, dependent on land use.Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density
United Kingdom Census 2011 '' Office for National Statistics'' Output areas E00012181,12184,12185+12188 Retrieved 31 October 2014


Some people associated with Harmondsworth

*
Offa of Mercia Offa (died 29 July 796 AD) was King of Mercia, a kingdom of Anglo-Saxon England, from 757 until his death. The son of Thingfrith and a descendant of Eowa, Offa came to the throne after a period of civil war following the assassination of Æt ...
, 780 AD, ''Hermonds'' (Harmondsworth) granted by Offa, King of Mercia, to his servant Aeldred * Harold Godwinson (Earl Harold or Harold II) (killed 1066), the last Anglo-Saxon king of England * William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (c. 1020–1071), advised King William I to grant Harmondsworth to an abbey in Rouen, the then capital of Normanandy *
William of Wykeham William of Wykeham (; 1320 or 1324 – 27 September 1404) was Bishop of Winchester and Chancellor of England. He founded New College, Oxford, and New College School in 1379, and founded Winchester College in 1382. He was also the clerk of ...
(1320 or 1324–1404),
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and
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, bought Harmondsworth in 1391 *Godfrey atte Perry, of Harmondsworth, MP for Middlesex, 1383 and 1388 * William Paget, 1st Baron Paget, KG, PC,
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, granted lordship and manor of Harmondsworth in 1547 *Sir
Philip Hoby Sir Philip Hoby (also Hobby or Hobbye) PC (1505 – 31 May 1558) was a 16th-century English Ambassador to the Holy Roman Empire and Flanders. Early life He was born probably at Leominster, England, the son of William Hoby of Leominster by hi ...
(1505–1558), the king leased him Longford mills for 60 years *Sir
Thomas Paston Sir Thomas Paston (by 1517 – 4 September 1550), of London, was an English politician. He was a son of Bridget Heydon, a daughter of Sir Henry Heydon of Baconsthorpe, and Sir William Paston (c.1479 – 1554), a son of Sir John Paston and his ...
, bought Hoby's interest in the Longford mill in 1548 * Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget, attainted in 1587 *Sir
Christopher Hatton Sir Christopher Hatton KG (1540 – 20 November 1591) was an English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England. He was one of the judges who found Mary, Queen of Scots guilty of treason. Early years Si ...
(1540–1591), KG, on third Lord Paget's attainder manor leased to Hatton by Queen Elizabeth I, 1587 *
William Paget, 4th Baron Paget William Paget, 4th Baron Paget of Beaudesert (1572 – 29 August 1629) was an English peer and colonist born in Beaudesert House, Staffordshire, England to Thomas Paget, 3rd Baron Paget and Nazareth Newton. His grandfather was William Paget, ...
, granted Harmondsworth and West Drayton in fee in 1597, and in blood 1604 *
William Paget, 5th Baron Paget William Paget, 5th Baron Paget (13 September 1609 – 19 October 1678) was an English peer. He was born at Beaudesert House, Staffordshire, England to William Paget, 4th Baron Paget and Lettice Knollys. Career He was a Parliamentarian wi ...
(1609–1678) * William Paget, 6th Baron Paget *
Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (13 January 166330 August 1743), of Beaudesert, Staffordshire, and West Drayton, Middlesex, was a British landowner and Tory politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1695 until 171 ...
*Elizabeth, Dowager Countess of Uxbridge (1674–1749), (daughter of
Sir Walter Bagot, 3rd Baronet Sir Walter Bagot, 3rd Baronet (21 March 1644 – 15 February 1704), a barrister and landowner, succeeded to the title 3rd Baronet of Blithfield Hall, Staffordshire, on the death of his father Sir Edward Bagot in 1673. He was educated at Christ ...
), in 1747 she gave £100 stock to the parish to be distributed to ten poor families who did not receive parish relief, no one family receiving more than 10 shillings a year *
Thomas Paget, Lord Paget Thomas Catesby Paget or Pagett (1689 – 4 February 1742) styled Hon. Thomas Catesby Paget from 1712 to 1714, and subsequently with the courtesy title Lord Paget, was an English writer and politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1715 to ...
(1689–1742) * Henry, Lord Paget, later Earl of Uxbridge, his heir sold Harmondsworth rectory 1772 and the barn 1774 * Henry Bayley-Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (1744–1812) *Field Marshal
Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (17 May 1768 – 29 April 1854), styled Lord Paget between 1784 and 1812 and known as the Earl of Uxbridge between 1812 and 1815, was a British Army officer and politician. After serving as a member ...
(1768–1854), KG, GCB, GCH, PC * Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey, sold the manor *
William Heather William Heather (c. 1563 – 1627) was a musician, and founder of the position of the Heather Professor of Music at the University of Oxford. Life and career William Heather was born in Harmondsworth,DNB and sang in the choir of Westminster Abbey ...
(c.1563–1627), musician, founder of
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, Oxford * Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland (c.1714–1786), KG, PC, and others, owners of the
Duke of Northumberland's River The Duke of Northumberland's River or D. O. N. River consists of separate upper and lower artificial watercourses in west London, United Kingdom. The older name Isleworth Mill Stream/River more accurately describes the economic motivation behi ...
*Sir William Heathcote, 3rd Baronet (1746–1819), owned Harmondsworth rectory 1772–1789 * George Byng, MP * Baron Strafford, of Harmondsworth, in the county of Middlesex (1772–1860), (aka Field Marshal John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford, GCB, GCH, PC) * Richard Cox (c.1766–1845), breeder of
Cox's Orange Pippin Cox's Orange Pippin, in Britain often referred to simply as Cox, is an apple cultivar first grown in 1825, at Colnbrook in Buckinghamshire, England, by the retired brewer and horticulturist Richard Cox. Though the parentage of the cultivar is ...
*Henry Smith of Harmondsworth Hall, in 1875 he bequeathed £300 to be given to the poor in blankets. In 1958 The Blanket Charity the charity income amounted to over £7, from which six blankets were purchased *Thomas Wild (1848–1932), of Wild & Robbins, market gardener (1931 growing: "cabbages lettuce leeks kale spinach broccoli New Zealand spinach rhubarb chokes potatoes beet greens Brussels proutsonions marrows parsnips" * Rowland Richard Robbins (Dick) (1872–1960), CBE, JP, market gardener, President of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales, National Farmers' Union (NFU) *Lionel Robbins (1898–1984) (Baron Robbins, CH, CB, FBA), economist; *Caroline Robbins (1903–1999), historian *Norman Macmillan (RAF officer), Norman Macmillan (1892–1976), OBE, MC, AFC, DL *Sir Charles Richard Fairey (1887–1956), MBE, of
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, founded the airport at Heathrow in 1930 *Sir John Betjeman, CBE (1906–1984), called the 1426 Great Barn ''the cathedral of Middlesex''.Simon Jenkins, "John Betjeman's Heathrow", in ''The Selling of Mary Davies and Other Writings'' (London, 1993), pp. 63–70; & Candida Lycett Green, pers. comm. to English Heritage's account of Harmondsworth Great Barn for its website.


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* Sherwood, Philip. (2009) ''Heathrow: 2000 Years of History''. The History Press * Philip Sherwood, ''Harlington and Harmondsworth'', Tempus, Stroud, 2002.


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St Mary's Church, Harmondsworth website

English Heritage's page on the barn.
{{LB Hillingdon Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Hillingdon Places formerly in Middlesex