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Breakspears Road North

Breakspears, 16th century house 17th rebuilt. Listed Grade I, Conservation Area. Early to mid c17 manor house.

Dovecote to Breakspear House. Listed Grade II*, Conservation Area c17.

Harefield

Harefield Place: Milton visited. Baynes. Was a manor house and became a hospital

Park Lodge, Farm Centre, visitors

Manor held in the Doomsday Book by Richard Fitz Gilbert Earl of Brioux

Harefield Pit (either 1 or 2)

 Church hill

White Horse Inn 16th century

Brakespears Mill to E of church takes its name from family of only English Pope

Crows Nest Farm 16th century or 17th

Hinckley Close

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Dews farm sandpits

Moorhall Road

Harefield  marina on the east of the canal

Farm chapel,   early 13th brick chapel belonging to hospitallers of St John.  Had fallen down. The oldest building in the parish. Dating from the early 13th century, two-story building of flint rubble with restored with brick in the 17th century and later. The north wall has a 13th-century doorway at each level, After the Dissolution it was a cattleshed, and a granary. In 1926 the Newdegates sold it and some land to the Uxbridge Rural District Council who leased the building in 1927 to the vicar and churchwardens; they repaired it for use as a mission room and Sunday school. In 1953 the roof fell in: it was not repaired

Moorhall, house, a two story building, converted into three cottages, and was burned down in 1922.

Moorhall Dell contains the word dell -hollow' probably a disused gravel or sand pit.

Widewater centre

 Harefield Pit. area of water adjoining Moorhall Road calledl No. 1 . The original owners were Rose and Company, and later John Morgan and Company. The lake was quite small then, but began to grow larger as the ballast workers extracted. Ballast was brought by a large flat bottom barge to the entrance at Moorhall Road and taken away. machinery was erected on the site that the present modern plant occupies and the lake then began to grow quite large. the land was cut in irregular pattern, trees were left uncut, bushes and shrubbery grew. Old barges were brought in for destruction and sunk And back filing on a large scale took place.

Harefield no 1 is the lake in this square with the islands at the bottom end

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Bourne Farm,

Barns 17th century

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Bayhurst Wood

Bayhurst Wood. Marked thus on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822, earlier Baynhurste 13th century, wood called Bayhurst 1522, probably 'wooded hill of a man called Baega', from an Old English personal name and Old English ‘hyrst’.

Hornbeam woodland now developed as a country park.   land reclaimed from tipping.   noted for its unusual mix of mature hornbeam and beech standards. There are many breaks in the canopy where scrub grows, or bramble and bracken. Among this field layer can be found woodland grasses, wood rush and tufted hairgrass

Denham Lake

Highway Farm,

17th century chimney rebuilt

New Year's Green Farm,

17th century

New Year's Green

Pond Farm 16th, early 17th century with 17th century oven

Infill site, tip

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Harvil Road

Dews  Farm Sandpits. Managed as a nature reserve.

Highways House Farm

Barn

Brackenbury

Farmhouse, barn 16th and 1th 16th century barn. Moat right round the house. Moat 350 yards SE of farm

New Years Green

So called on Rocque's map 1754 and appearing as New Years Green on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822. Possibly a reference to festivities once held here on New Year's Day, but perhaps more likely to be from the surname of some local family - the area is referred to as ‘Newes’ in 1699, which suggests a manorial name.

Much of the area is a dump – recycling centre,  waste transfer station and breakers yard. 

New Years Green farm

17th

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Breakspear Road

42 Plantsman's delight. Medium-sized garden with hosta walk leading to terrace with many pots containing grasses and tropical plants. Steps leading down to large themed borders 

Copthall Drive

Copthall Farm

The Drive:

Harefield Place. Remains of 16th century garden walls

Harvil Road

North Lodge

Harefield Place Nature Reserve Small mixed woodland with wet grassland. Broadleaved woodland with pond and grasslands. Once part of the Harefield Estate.  The woodland of oak, hornbeam, beech and lime was once dominated by wych elm and English elm destroyed through Dutch elm disease. Nightingales and the uncommon Leisler's bat 

South Harefield Halt 1928-193124th September 1928. Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway. West side of Harefield Road Bridge. Originally called ‘Harefield Halt’. 1929 name changed.  1931 closed.

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Mad Bess Wood,

Middlesex County Council open space. One of London's finest clusters of ancient woodland which is crossed by several tributaries of the River Pimm. It was threatened by building development at the beginning of the 20^th but plans ended during theFirst World War so that thewoods were opened to the public in the 1930s. An SSSI,. these woods are predominantly hornbeam and oak, mostly of ancient origin and it is benefitting from coppicing.named from an area referred to as Mad Bess in the 18th century. The reason for the name is not known, but conceivably it could have been called after. Mad Bess Stream and Bess Ride are on the edges of the wood.

Warren Farm, Middlesex County Council open space

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Ladygate Lane:

WhiteheathJuniorSchool Pev

St Leonard's Farm

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Ducks Hill Lane

Six Bells Inn the brick 1806

The Old Workhouse dated 1789, a replica of the Harefield workhouse of 1782. Red brick with dentil cornice, two rear wings; wing added when it was restored c. 1922

Poor’s Field

Poor's Fields refer to what was common grazing land. Threatened by building development at the beginning of this century, plans foundered during the First World War so that with consistent local residents' pressure the woods were saved and opened to the public in the 1930s.  Varies from neutral grassland to grassy heath. Reptiles such as grass snakes, slow worms and adders favour this vicinity.

Adjoining the field is the nature reserve managed by the Ruislip and District NHS, consisting mainly of marsh with a number of reed fringed ponds.

Ruislip Common 

Ruislip Park Reservoir. Compensating reservoir for the canal. Built by the Grand Junction Canal company in 1810 and now much used for water sports. marked Reservoir on the Ordnance Survey map of 1822; it was created as a feeder for the Grand Junction Canal.

Ruislip Lido. The lido was built for the Grand Union Canal Company in 1936 by Thomas H. Mawson and Son. It was projected as one of the first of many lidos to be distributed over a wide area on extensive reservoirs belonging to the company. The central portion contained a restaurant, dance floor and terrace; wings contained changing rooms. There were spacious lawns, tennis courts and also a car park for 250 cars.

Ruislip LNR at the northern end, marshy area managed by local natural history society

Motte and Bailey. 11^th castle of Ernulf de Hesdin. 

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Austin’s Lane

Canal feeder follows this from the main road to the Metropolitan Railway

Community Close

Ickenham Miniature Railway. the Ickenham & District Society of Model Engineers built a portable miniature railway track in 1954 and this was installed alongside the clubhouse. They wanted to build a continuous live steam track from 1964, but it was not until 1969 that the lease was signed with this. The track opened in 1969. In the decision was made to extend the track to a new terminal station on the front lawn and this opened in 1982 and called Ickenham St Giles Station, the original station  being Wood Halt

Ickenham Green

Soldier’s Return

Canal feeder runs in undergrowth alongside a path from the Soldier’s Return and further to the north a stone bridge.

Ickenham Road

Canal Feedercrosses it south of a scrap dealer and runs along the edge of what was an American base as far as Austin’s Lane.

West Ruislip station.  2^nd April 1906. Between Denham and South Ruislip on Chiltern Railways line to Marylebone.  Terminus of Central Line Great Western and Great Central Joint Line. Opened as Ruislip and Ickenham but in 1947 renamed ‘West Ruislip for Ickenham’. In 1948 became part of the Central Line. The longest journey without changing tubes is between Epping and West Ruislip - 34.1 miles. It had been intended to carry on to Denham but this was not done.  There is a train-wash system a little to the east of the platform. The former Great Western & Great Central Joint Line crosses over the Metropolitan near here, accompanied by the Central Line, which was brought into use on 21st November 1948. A connection between Central and Metropolitan Lines was opened in 1973 allowing rolling stock transfers between the Uxbridge branch, and the tube depot south of West Ruislip

Railway Line

Great Western Railway

West Ruislip

Cottage east of the church. 15th with additions

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Fore Street

Fore street Farm 17th and barn

Ruislip Holt became St.Vincent's OrthodoxHospital. Founded in Clapham by Sisters of Charity and St.Vincent. Left 1912

Four Elms Farm

Norwich Road

Wiltshire Lane:

Ivy House 16th century

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Bury Street

Toll house converted to public toilets

Eastcote Road,

Bridle Road now Eastcote Road

Timber framed house. two-storey timber-framed house with a well documented history: built c. 1570, converted in 1616 to back-to-back cottages - five on each side - in the c 18 used to house the poor. former jetty was under built in brick in 1616.

Pinner Gas Works, from 1868, CC & WT Walker as Pinner Gas Co., GLCC 1930, CWG 1918, 1872 management by Mr.Bell age 19 and wife of 17 034,

Ruislip National Schools

Eastcote Hill Manor Farm estate built by Metropolitan Railway Country Estates

East Bedfont

Held in the Domesday Book by Walter Fitz Other

Alehouse shop with tear facing almshouses of 1570.

Green Walk

Houses in pairs with steep pantiled roofs, rather East Anglian in feeling, designed before 1914, but built after the war

High Street

A picturesquely informal group of timber-framed buildings hugs the churchyard. a long range, plainly rendered but facing the churchyard with c 16 close studding above a moulded side to the High Street . The rest of the Street is fairly genteel early c 20, with little that is fit

Lychgate tactful dated 1902

House with fireplace with carved lintel and trefoil-headed brick niches above.

Park House, c.1827, much altered and once with large grounds. To the road, a stuccoed end above shops; longer frontage with shallow bow.

Post Office, 16th century twisted chimneys

Old Swan Inn 1500 & 1600

George Hotel 17th

Times House, a sixties office, seven stories. c. 1965 by Frank Ratter

Barn Hotel, a small c16-17 L-shaped timber-framed farmhouse of good quality. Timber-framed barn and stables nearby.

The Old Post Office and the Village Tea and Sweet Shop. A low 17th exterior of brick, with two slightly projecting wings. An older timber-framed interior, altered but visible in half of the house.They are two cottages at the entrance to Manor Farm and were given to the local authority along with Manor Farm by Kings College. The Post Office was also the village’s first telephone exchange. Now the Duck House

King's End

King's College land developed by Metropolitan Railway

13-15 laid out in 1905, the first of King's College developments, starting with a pair intended to impress as a single house, 

11-15 the first houses built in the road in 1906 designed by Frederick Mansford. Kings College imposed high standards and the pair are made to look like one house

Withycutts. The name of old pasture in the area before being sold for development in 1903

Manor Close

Carried on the tradition of Manor Way after 1914

Manor Way

part of the Manor Farm land was developed by Ruislip Manor Cottage Society with low-rental housing for artisans, intended to serve the needs of the garden suburb planned for Ruislip-Northwood, all very much in the spirit of Hampstead Garden expansion on land owned by Kings College Cambridge.

Cottages. A larger composition of simple brick cottages in groups of four, set back from the road behind a green. The central group is by C.M. Crickmer, the two flanking ones by A. Soutar, the smaller end groups, set a little forward, by H Welch.

Pembroke Road

Ruislip Station.. Opened 4^th July 1904 on the Metropolitan Line as the only intermediate station on the extension to Uxbridge from Harrow at a time when the population of Ruislip was only 3,566. it was half mile from the village but less than half a mile from Ruislip Manor Station.. It was a substantial station from the start  and remains largely as built.  Ruislip station consisted of two platforms, which were linked by a lattice iron footbridge. The main building was on the up side, and built red brick. The footbridge got a corrugated iron roof in 1928, but is otherwise original.

depot to the east of the station for coal, cattle and horses..The yard was enlarged in 1928.  Has since been converted to a car park.

a signal box was erected to control movements around the station and yard.

Metropolitan Electric Substation in 1905 taking power from Neasden. 

Rolling stock depot for Central Line built in the 1930s.

Shenleys farmhouse, now a model

Sacred Heart

Ruislip Manor held in the Domesday Book by Ernulf de Hesding

Recreation ground

Dating from the 1970s, occupies the site of the erstwhile Field End Farm.

Ruislip 

The local pronunciation of Ruislip is either 'Rizelip' or 'Ryeslip'. It Appears in the Domesday book as ‘Rislepe’. ‘Ruslep’ 1227, ‘Risselepe’  ‘Ruysshlep 1341,. It probably means 'leaping place - across the river – where rushes grow', from Old English ‘rysc’ and ‘hlyp’. The name refers to a  crossing of the River Pimm.  The opening of the Harrow and Uxbridge Railway in 1904 was the stimulus to the area called Metroland and the first housing developments along the new railway were here. The Council was concerned with the activities of a number of land developers who bought land near the railway in the 1900s. The British Freehold Land Company sold plots for £3 down and 10s per week, but buyers had to find their own architect and builder. As a result, they often designed their own homes, with disastrous results.

St. Martin, 15th ,medieval wall painting Schools

Almshouses

Ruislip Common

marked thus on the  Ordnance Survey map of 1904.

West End Road

High Street Railway Bridge, a favourite location for railway photographers,

West Way

Baptist Church

Windmill Way

At the entrance a nice tiled pair, and further along another composition on three sides of a green, C Hignett, more fancifully detailed, with patterned brickwork

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Cherry Farm

Herlwyn Avenue

Land adjoining Middlesex County Council open space

Shenley Avenue:

Sports Ground Middlesex County Council open space

Railway Line

Central Line depot between Ruislip and West Ruislip Stations

West End

Times House

Barn Hotel

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Elm Avenue

Joel Street

Joel Street Farm

29 Cowmans Cottage

Land between it and Fore Street Middlesex County Council open space

Catlins Lane

Old road. Land between it and Cuckoo Hill Middlesex County Council open space

St Catherine’s Farm

Southill Lane

The Case is altered

Southill Farm

St.Lawrence Drive

Estate site of Sigars Estate

Wiltshire lane

Old road.

Ivy Farm

Cherry Cottage

Ascott Court on site of Wiltshire Farm

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Acacia avenue

Beech Avenue

Eastcote Hall Metropolitan railway estates. Built 1920s.

Eastcote Recreation Ground Middlesex County Council open space

Eastcote Hill Estate

Elm Avenue

Hawthorne Avenue,

Early bit of development in Eastcote British Freehold Syndicate

High Grove on site of Hale End rebuilt 1881 after fire. LA hostel

Highgrove House

Lime Grove

Early bit of development in Eastcote British Freehold Syndicate

Military hospital built in Second World War.  Became a barracks and then the Government Communications Headquarters. The two last Colossuses were brought here from Bletchley Park and remained there until GCHQ went to Cheltenham.

Linden Avenue

Morford Way

Morford Close

Myrtle Avenue

Oak Grove

Ruislip Manor

There was a small priory at Ruislip the 16th-century Manor Farmhouse is on the site of the Prior's house, and the 13th-century Great Barn  survives nearby. The old manor is referred to in Ruislip Manor, the  name of a station (opened 1912) and residential district which, like  neighbouring South and West Ruislip and Ruislip Gardens, is a 20th-  century development

Estate. The Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council held a competition for the planning of a garden city between Northwood and South Ruislip. The first prize was won by Westminster architects A & J Soutar with a grand boulevard, landscaping for Ruislip Reservoir and integrated groups of cottages, shops and villas. A company called Ruislip Manor Ltd was formed, and its prospectus stated: 'Ruislip Manor Limited aims at introducing all classes into the community . . . but it is not intended to indiscriminately mix all classes together, however'. A few houses were completed before the First World War, but the original project was never revived, but the route of some of the roads was kept. The area now called Ruislip Manor, which had been scheduled for twelve houses to the acre, was built up only in 1933-9 with speculative housing - George Ball's, Manor Homes which were partly built on area of Winchester estate to subsidise the station.  Small enclave 1920s by Telling Brothers. Regency.

Southbourne Gardens

Southbourne School

Victoria Road

Ruislip Manor Station. Opened by the Metropolitan Railway on 5^th August 1912  because of development of the garden village built here in 1911. it closed from 12th February 1917, and stayed shut until 1st April 1919 but was later re-opened as ‘Ruislip Manor Halt’. Originally it was a wooden platform with field path for access & trains only stopped at request And it remained very lightly used for many years. Complete closure was considered in 1926, but a local developer paid to keep it open. in 1937 it was rebuilt as a Holden station But two wooden shelters remained from its earliest days..

St Gregory the Great

12 JJ Moon's

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Railway Line

The Metropolitan Line from Sudbury on a viaduct of 71 arches

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South Harrow cemetery.

Little to be said, modest, full, chapel & lavatories. Dead elms & wooden seats. Salvation Army

Tithe Farm estate.

Built by Metropolitan Railway country estates, with the help of development grant for a railway site on the estate

Corbin’s Lane

St Paul

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Cadogan Close.

Northolt Park Station.1926.  Between South Ruislip and Sudbury Hill Harrow on Chiltern Railways line to St.Marylebone. Great Central Railway opened as ‘South Harrow and Roxteth’. In 1929 it was renamed Northolt Park.

Newmarket Avenue

Named for the racecourse.  Council flats built here post-war.

Northolt Park Infant School.

Northolt Park 

Northolt Manor, held in the Domesday Book by Geoffrey de Mandeville

The park is the site of the old racecourse but it is just a bog standard recreation ground.

Northolt Road

Roxeth, GC R and Metropolitan Rly.

Harrow Gas Works. 1855-1954 John Chapman, Harrow GLCC 1872, Harrow Dist. 1873, Harrow and Stanmore 1894, Brentford 1924, GLCC 1926, NTGB 1949. Built by Chapman at the request of the inhabitants of Harrow 1872 rebuilt, then became a statutory company, 1902 horizontal house became inclined, ext to retorts in 1925, plant from Ilford works. CWG 1906. 1924 Travers Clark Complete Gasification. Had sulphate plant 1933 active carbon benzol recovery plant, 1931 waterless gasholder plus big row. Camouflage painting. Closed in 1954 but holders till there 1957

Race Course Estate

Race Course housing estate. up to 1939 this was a penny race track.  The racecourse had been opened on what was previously farm land in 1929 as the national centre for pony racing. In the Second World War it was used as a camp for Italian Prisoners of War.  Before the races could re-start the Council bought the site for housing.  64 houses were built in 1951 and the grandstand was demolished. Some houses were built by Ealing Council and some by Harrow.   One stand was moved to Brands Hatch.