Search Results for: Ruislip

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…

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…

Ruislip Gardens, Hillingdon The smallest of Ruislip’s local­i­ties, separated from RAF Northolt aerodrome by the Yeading Brook The manorial landowner, King’s College, Cambridge, created New…

…Quiet and Secluded Spot: Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcote, 1851–1881, Ruislip, Northwood and Eastcote Local History Society, 1991 and Ron Edwards, Eastcote from Village to Suburb:…

…here, separated from Ruislip and Eastcote by Park Wood, Copse Wood and Ruislip Common. A few cottages were recorded here in a survey of 1565…

…Until the Ruislip Enclosure Act of 1804, Cuckoo Hill marked the eastern edge of Ruislip Common, which was then an unin­hab­ited wilder­ness. Cuckoo Hill Farm…

Ickenham, Hillingdon A genteel resi­den­tial suburb situated between Uxbridge and Ruislip Exca­va­tions at Long Lane playing fields have produced evidence of a possible Iron Age…

Northolt, Ealing/Hillingdon A large and unex­citing set of housing estates, plus a famous aerodrome (which is really in South Ruislip) and an award-winning new park This…

…cathedral for the people of Tooting.” He also cherished rural Middlesex and wistfully chron­i­cled its decline into suburban monotony. “Gaily into Ruislip Gardens Runs the…