King’s Arbour

King’s Arbour was an orchard at the junction of Bath Road and Heathrow Road.

Orchards were a major agricultural activities in the Heathrow area before the building of the airport in 1944.
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This small orchard was founded before the 19th century and separated The Magpies from Heath Row.

In 1784, within the orchard, General William Roy mapped one end of the first baseline for measuring the distance between the Paris and Greenwich observatories, the first precise distance survey in Britain.

General Roy chose the orchard for his lines as it was near-flat, near Hounslow Heath barracks and about 15 miles from the Royal Observatory. The south/east/ end was the Hampton Poor House. Both ends were marked by vertical wooden pipes which could support flagstaffs.

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE LOCALITY

Heathrow Road, TW6 Added: 19 Feb 2022 16:21 GMT	Harmondsworth (1939 - 1965) I lived in a house (Lostwithiel) on the Bath Road opposite the junction with Tythe Barn Lane, now a hotel site. Initially, aircraft used one of the diagonal runways directly in line with our house. I attended Sipson Primary School opposite the Three Magpies and celebrated my 21st birthday at The Peggy Bedford in 1959. Reply
The Three Magpies Added: 30 May 2022 19:03 GMT	The Three Magpies Row of houses (centre) was on Heathrow Rd....Ben’s Cafe shack ( foreground ) and the Three Magpies pub (far right) were on the Bath Rd Reply

LATEST LONDON-WIDE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PROJECT

Sue Meyrick Road, SW11 Added: 24 Sep 2023 19:09 GMT	Meyrick Rd My family - Roe - lived in poverty at 158 Meyrick Rd in the 1920s, moving to 18 Lavender Terrace in 1935. They also lived in York Rd at one point. Alf, Nell (Ellen), plus children John, Ellen (Did), Gladys, Joyce & various lodgers. Alf worked for the railway (LMS). Reply
Michael Tyrrell Avenue, DA16 Added: 20 Sep 2023 21:10 GMT	Momentous Birth! I was born in the upstairs front room of 28 Tyrrell Avenue in August 1938. I was a breach birth and quite heavy ( poor Mum!). My parents moved to that end of terrace house from another rental in St Mary Cray where my three year older brother had been born in 1935. The estate was quite new in 1938 and all the properties were rented. My Father was a Postman. I grew up at no 28 all through WWII and later went to Little Dansington School Reply
Mike Levy Arbour Square, E1 Added: 19 Sep 2023 18:10 GMT	Bombing of Arbour Square in the Blitz On the night of September 7, 1940. Hyman Lubosky (age 35), his wife Fay (or Fanny)(age 32) and their son Martin (age 17 months) died at 11 Arbour Square. They are buried together in Rainham Jewish Cemetery. Their grave stones read: "Killed by enemy action" Reply
Lady Townshend Bridge House Added: 8 Sep 2023 16:02 GMT	Tenant at Westbourne (1807 - 1811) I think that the 3rd Marquess Townshend - at that time Lord Chartley - was a tenant living either at Westbourne Manor or at Bridge House. He undertook considerable building work there as well as creating gardens. I am trying to trace which house it was. Any ideas gratefully received Reply
Alex Britton Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 10:43 GMT	Late opening The tracks through Roding Valley were opened on 1 May 1903 by the Great Eastern Railway (GER) on its Woodford to Ilford line (the Fairlop Loop). But the station was not opened until 3 February 1936 by the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER, successor to the GER). Source: Roding Valley tube station - Wikipedia Reply
Kevin Pont Roding Valley Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:52 GMT	Shhh.... Roding Valley is the quietest tube station, each year transporting the same number of passengers as Waterloo does in one day. Reply
Kevin Pont Dollis Hill Added: 30 Aug 2023 09:47 GMT	The connection with Bletchley Park The code-breaking computer used at Bletchley Park was built in Dollis Hill. Reply
Kevin Pont Hampstead Added: 29 Aug 2023 15:25 GMT	The deepest station At 58m below ground, Hampstead is as deep as Nelson’s Column is tall. Source: Hampstead tube station - Wikipedia Reply

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Amadeus Building, UB3 Amadeus Building is a block on Mondial Way.

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Blunts Avenue, UB7 Blunts Avenue is one of the streets of London in the UB7 postal area.

Blunts Avenue, UB7

Boltons Lane, UB3 Boltons Lane is one of the streets of London in the UB3 postal area.

Boltons Lane, UB3

Browngraves Road, UB3 Browngraves Road is a road in the UB3 postcode area

Browngraves Road, UB3

Chestnut Close, UB7 Chestnut Close lies off of Doghurst Drive.

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Customs House, TW6 Customs House is a block on Nene Road Roundabout.

Customs House, TW6

Doghurst Avenue, UB3 Doghurst Avenue is a road in the UB3 postcode area

Doghurst Avenue, UB3

Doghurst Cottages, TW6 Doghurst Cottages were situated at the east side of the north end of Heathrow Road.

Doghurst Cottages, TW6

Doghurst Drive, UB7 Doghurst Drive is a road in the UB7 postcode area

Doghurst Drive, UB7

Egerton Way, UB3 Egerton Way is a road in the UB3 postcode area

Egerton Way, UB3

Heathrow Academy Building, TW6 Heathrow Academy Building is a block on Newall Road.

Heathrow Academy Building, TW6

Heathrow Road, TW6 Heathrow Road is now buried beneath the runways and terminal buildings of Heathrow Airport.

Heathrow Road, TW6

Mondial Way, UB3 Mondial Way is one of the streets of London in the UB3 postal area.

Mondial Way, UB3

Nene Road, TW6 Nene Road connects Bath Road and the Northern Perimeter Road.

Nene Road, TW6

Nettleton Road, UB3 Nettleton Road largely runs parallel with the Bath Road in the northern part of the Heathrow Airport area.

Nettleton Road, UB3

Northern Perimeter Road West, TW6 Northern Perimeter Road West is part of a series of roads running along the perimeters of Heathrow Airport.

Northern Perimeter Road West, TW6

Sipson Way, UB7 Sipson Way is one of the streets of London in the UB7 postal area.

Sipson Way, UB7

Sovereign Court, UB3 Sovereign Court is a road in the UB7 postcode area

Sovereign Court, UB3

Sovereign Court, UB7 Sovereign Court is a building on Sovereign Court.

Sovereign Court, UB7

Strata House, UB3 Strata House is a block along Bath Road.

Strata House, UB3

Two modern houses, TW6 Two modern houses, west side. In the 1930s, Mr Ward (headmaster at Harmondsworth school) lived there.

Two modern houses, TW6

NEARBY PUBS

Old Magpies The Old Magpies was a pub which was situated on the Bath Road.

Old Magpies

The Three Magpies The Three Magpies is the last pub left on the Bath Road.

The Three Magpies

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Heathrow

Heathrow Airport itself began in 1944 - its underground station opened in 1977.

Heathrow Central station opened on 16 December 1977 as the final terminus of the Piccadilly line’s extension from Hounslow West to Heathrow Airport. The preceding station on the line - Hatton Cross - had opened as a temporary terminus in 1975.

At its opening, Heathrow Central station served as the terminus of what then became known as the Heathrow branch of the line. Previously the branch had been called the Hounslow branch. 1977 was the first time that an airport had been directly served by an underground railway system.

With the development of the airport’s Terminal 4, this station renamed Heathrow Terminals 1, 2, 3 on 6 October 1986. With the closure of Terminal 1, a new renaming occurred.

LOCAL PHOTOS

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The Three Magpies, Bath Road, Heathrow can be seen on the far right. The buildings here were on Heathrow Road - which was buried under the airport runways. TUM image id: 1637777571 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Three Magpies, Bath Road, Heathrow can be seen on the far right. The buildings here were on Heathrow Road - which was buried under the airport runways. TUM image id: 1637777571 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The Original London to Bath Mail Coach, 1784, with armed guard TUM image id: 1644333624 Licence:	British Airways Concordes gathering to sniff the back of a freshly-built one, deciding whether to let it into their group TUM image id: 1682600283 Licence:	Heathrow Hall, 1935. TUM image id: 1503231819 Licence: CC BY 2.0
Doghurst Cottages and the entrance to Heathrow Road behind the Three Magpies pub, Bath Road (1944) TUM image id: 1644332910 Licence: CC BY 2.0	The 19th century “Plough and Harrow” public house, Heathrow. Heathrow Road was a little rural lane running through market gardens between the Bath Road and Perry Oaks. Halfway way along its length was the Plough and Harrow pub. In the 1930s it was run by a Mr Basham, an ex-policeman. It was demolished in 1944 as plans were drawn up for a larger airport to replace the existing London Airport at Croydon. This is possibly one of the most altered locations in the London area - you can experience the site of the pub by visiting WH Smith in the Arrivals area of Heathrow Terminal 2. TUM image id: 1503013172 Licence:	Perrott’s Farm TUM image id: 1503239496 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Demolition of Heathrow Hall (1944) Heathrow Hall was the major building of the hamlet of Heath Row which gives its name to London’s main airport. Its location would now be buried beneath the pedestrian area outside Terminal 2. TUM image id: 1503145692 Licence:	The Old Magpies was an old pub on the Bath Road near Heathrow, demolished in 1951. TUM image id: 1644844819 Licence:
Cain’s Lane Mission Church (1935) This was a Baptist chapel built in 1901, disappeared in 1944 under Heathrow Airport. TUM image id: 1644338593 Licence:	Three Magpies pub on the Bath Road near Heathrow Airport. Almost opposite the Three Magpies was St Saviour’s Church opened in 1880 - later the site of the Heathrow Park Hotel. TUM image id: 1644589457 Licence: CC BY 2.0	Shrub End, Cains Lane, Heathrow (1943) David Wild standing with his wife Naomi, children Elizabeth and James with their nurse. The family was evicted in 1944 and their house demolished. Credit: W.Wild TUM image id: 1644856503 Licence: CC BY 2.0

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The Three Magpies, Bath Road, Heathrow can be seen on the far right. The buildings here were on Heathrow Road - which was buried under the airport runways.
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Heathrow Hall, 1935.
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Doghurst Cottages and the entrance to Heathrow Road behind the Three Magpies pub, Bath Road (1944)
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The Old Magpies was an old pub on the Bath Road near Heathrow, demolished in 1951.
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Three Magpies pub on the Bath Road near Heathrow Airport. Almost opposite the Three Magpies was St Saviour’s Church opened in 1880 - later the site of the Heathrow Park Hotel.
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