Heathrow Airport area (1939)
We are returning to Heathrow Airport for this map which predated the complete transformation of the Heathrow area by five years.
Running east-west across the top of the map is Bath Road.
At the Three Magpies Inn (marked 'Inn' beside 'The Magpies' village), a loop of a road leads south to Heathrow village, then west to Perry Oaks and back to the Bath Road just shy of the Peggy Bedford pub (marked 'Inn' at the split of the road at Longford).
The small aerodrome south of Heathrow village was the kernel of the new London Heathrow Airport which would completely cover the map by the late 1940s.
The 'w' of the 1939 'Heathrow' village label is the exact site of the future central bus station.
