82-557: Northwood is an area in the London Borough of Hillingdon , North West London, located 14.5 miles (23.3 km) north-west of Charing Cross . Northwood was part of the ancient parish of Ruislip , Middlesex . The area was situated on the historic Middlesex boundary with Hertfordshire, and since being incorporated into Greater London in 1965, has been on the Greater London boundary with that county. The area consists of
164-471: A 15th-century block with a crown-post roof, a cross-wing of the same date, and a long range of about 1600. This is now the Hall School , Northwood. The Tree trunk sculptures are sculpted logs that are placed on Green Lane, diagonally opposite Northwood Station. The London School of Theology is an English interdenominational evangelical theological college. This early 20th century built construction
246-773: A club in the Saracens Hertfordshire Premier League. Northwood was part of the ancient parish of Ruislip and became part of the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District in 1904. The urban district was abolished in 1965 and merged with others to become part of the London Borough of Hillingdon in Greater London . Northwood has three elected local Councillors: Cllr Scott Seaman-Digby (first elected 1998), Cllr Richard Lewis (first elected 2002) and Cllr Carol Melvin (first elected 2008). The Member of Parliament (MP) for
328-470: A flat floor for performances in the round, dancing, cabaret, weddings, indoor markets and craft fairs. The Rickmansworth Players (affiliated to NODA) is a well-established amateur dramatics society that performs musicals and plays on a regular basis. Rickmansworth Historical Society meets monthly from September to June in the Cloisters Hall. Rickmansworth is sometimes shortened to "Ricky", as used in
410-667: A good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything." The Aquadrome covers 41 hectares (100 acres) and includes the Aquadrome Local Nature Reserve, Batchworth and Bury Lakes, open grassland, areas of woodland, car parking, a café and a children's play area. Its boundaries are the River Colne to the north, the Grand Union Canal to the east and south and Stocker's Lake nature reserve to
492-536: A park for wild beasts (parcus ferarum). The hamlet of Northwood grew up along the north side of the Rickmansworth - Pinner road which passes across the north-east of the parish. Apart from this road and internal networks in areas of scattered settlement to the east and west, Ruislip had only three ancient roads of any importance of which Ducks Hill Road was the only one in the Northwood hamlet. This followed
574-465: A promise that green-belt land in Hillingdon would be safe on his watch: 'I can give a categoric assurance that under this administration we will never see a threat to the green belt.' In August 2012, however, Mr Puddifoot announced plans to build on green-belt (and longtime common land ) site Lake Farm in the south of the borough. Dismissing the discontent of residents in the south of the borough,
656-440: A restriction to protect the ornate Victorian houses made of high quality brickwork. Dotted across the area are 22 listed buildings (for their architecture). Elevations range between 177 feet (54m) to 374 feet (114m) AOD , with many ridges and folds in the land creating an undulating terrain. Northwood Hills includes Haste Hill and is separated by green buffers on almost all sides, though touches Eastcote Village to
738-460: A second term. From 2001 to 2011 the borough's population grew by 11.5% (4.4% above the England and Wales mean of 7.1%). By comparison Merton and Bromley grew by 4.5% and Tower Hamlets grew by 26.4%. The number of households increased from 2001 to 2011 by 3.3%, and the average number of people per household was 2.7. 37.1% of the borough's population identified themselves as White British in
820-428: Is a London borough in Greater London , England. It forms part of outer London and West London , being the westernmost London borough. It was formed in 1965 from the districts of Hayes and Harlington , Ruislip-Northwood , Uxbridge , and Yiewsley and West Drayton . The borough includes most of Heathrow Airport and Brunel University , and is the second largest of the 32 London boroughs by area. The main towns in
902-748: Is a town in south-west Hertfordshire , England, located approximately 17 miles (27 km) north-west of central London , 5 miles (8 km) south-west of Watford and inside the perimeter of the M25 motorway . The town is mainly to the north of the Grand Union Canal (formerly the Grand Junction Canal ) and the River Colne . Rickmansworth is the administrative seat of the Three Rivers District Council;
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#1732793991776984-661: Is also served by Arriva Shires & Essex route 328 connecting the area to South Oxhey , Watford , Leavesden and Abbots Langley , and by Red Eagle Buses, which terminate at Mount Vernon Hospital with the R1 to Maple Cross and the R2 to Chorleywood – through Harefield and Rickmansworth . See the List of schools in Hillingdon . A local residents' association and chamber of commerce joined forces in May 2010 calling for greater recognition of
1066-566: Is home to Bury Lake Young Mariners (BLYM); a sailing club and RYA-recognised teaching establishment. Rickmansworth Cricket Club was founded in 1787 and is one of the oldest recorded clubs in England. Its clubhouse was built in 1921 by Sir William Francis Reckitt – a member of the Reckitt and Colman Mustard dynasty. Rickmansworth Sports Club runs five teams in the Saracens Hertfordshire Cricket League. Over
1148-497: Is home to a number of independently run sports clubs: The south's former strong connection with industry has diminished since the 1980s to be replaced by a preponderantly residential suburban population; the north has remained a consistently residential suburban area, although with significant swathes of rural land. The borough's residential areas expanded with the extension of the Metropolitan Railway from Harrow on
1230-541: Is served by passenger services on two lines: Local bus services are operated primarily by Arriva Shires & Essex ; key routes include: Junctions 17 and 18 of the M25 motorway are within Rickmansworth's boundaries, giving access to Heathrow Airport and the national motorway network. Rickmansworth is a part of the UK Parliament constituency of South West Hertfordshire . Gagan Mohindra has been
1312-590: Is situated in South Ruislip near the A40 and the tube station. Most early RAF airfields were named after the nearest railway station; in this case Northolt Junction, the original name of South Ruislip station. The station has been redeveloped in recent years to house a number of additional military capabilities besides the RAF operations, and is popular with business people and politicians for private flights. Hillingdon
1394-562: Is twinned with: The borough has been twinned with the French town of Mantes-la-Jolie and the German town of Schleswig since the Hayes & Harlington Urban District created the link in 1958. The twinning programme was reviewed in 2011 and it was suggested that the link with Schleswig be ended owing to a lack of contact between the towns. In December 2011, the borough decided instead to end
1476-615: The Bec Abbey who lived at Manor Farm in Ruislip in the 11th century owned this grange. A few cottages at Northwood are mentioned in the 1565 national survey. Two hundred years later the shape of the hamlet, composed of a few farms and dwellings scattered along the Rickmansworth road, had altered little except for the addition of Holy Trinity church. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury had 568 acres (230 ha) of Ruislip cleared of forest. Northwood, however, elevated and separated from
1558-884: The Beck Theatre in Hayes (which is operated on behalf of the borough by Trafalgar Entertainment ), the Compass Theatre in Ickenham, the Winston Churchill Theatre and Hall (part of the Manor Farm site) and the Open Air Theatre in Barra Hall Park in Hayes. The borough has seven Non-League football clubs: The borough is also home to Hillingdon Outdoor Activity Centre (HOAC), a water sports and activity centre. The centre
1640-582: The Conservative majority of the council's planning committee peremptorily rubber-stamped the plans in March 2013. Harmondsworth Moor, a park owned by the borough, is administered by British Airways on behalf of the borough. After British Airways planned to create a new headquarters in 1992, the airline agreed to convert a former landfill site into Harmondsworth Moor. The Grand Union Canal passes through Hayes , Yiewsley , Cowley and Uxbridge in
1722-481: The Great Western Railway 's Uxbridge branch , but this was never realised. Despite hopes that the railway would bring economic development and serve the factories and warehouses that had developed along the Grand Union Canal, it was Watford that grew at a faster pace and drew business from Rickmansworth. The railway was dogged with financial problems and a further Act of Parliament in 1863 authorised
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#17327939917761804-678: The London Assembly , the borough forms part of the Ealing and Hillingdon constituency. The Conservative candidate Richard Barnes won the 2000, 2004 and 2008 elections, and since the 2012 election the Labour candidate Onkar Sahota has served as the Ealing and Hillingdon London Assembly member. At the same election in 2012 Conservative candidate Boris Johnson won the largest share of Hillingdon's votes, becoming elected Mayor of London for
1886-1044: The Member of Parliament since the December 2019 United Kingdom general election . The agricultural co-operative, Quality Milk Producers has its headquarters in Scotsbridge House, as do the English Guernsey Cattle Society, the Jersey Cattle Society, the UK Holstein Society, the British Friesian Breeders Club, the Milk Development Council and the Centre for Dairy Information. In 1897, a police station opened in
1968-1158: The Thistle London Heathrow in West Drayton . British Midland International had its training centre in Stockley Close, West Drayton. Hellenic Imperial Airways had its United Kingdom offices in the Axis House in Harlington . China Airlines had its UK office in the Hyde Park Hayes 3 (HPH3) in Hayes . One of the predecessor organisations of British Airways, British Overseas Airways Corporation , had its head office in Speedbird House. The other predecessor, British European Airways , had its headquarters in South Ruislip , as did BEA Helicopters . During its existence
2050-633: The Watford and Rickmansworth Railway (WRR) between Rickmansworth and Watford. Opening in October 1862, Rickmansworth (Church Street) railway station was opposite the parish church of St Mary, with interchange sidings to the Grand Union Canal . The line had stations at Watford Junction and Watford High Street and a depot in Watford. A further Parliamentary authorisation was obtained a year later to construct an extension from Rickmansworth to connect with
2132-836: The confluence of the River Chess and the River Gade with the Colne in Rickmansworth inspired the district's name. The enlarged Colne flows south to form a major tributary of the River Thames . The town is served by the Metropolitan line of the London Underground and by Chiltern Railways of the National Rail network, between London Marylebone and Aylesbury . The name Rickmansworth comes from
2214-575: The 2021 census. In the south-east of the borough, in particular Hayes , there is a large population of South Asian residents. The wards where Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Residents comprise the largest racial groups are: Whites as a whole form 48.2% of the borough, Asian residents 33.3%, and Black residents 7.8%. In addition, the most common main language, English (77.9%), is followed by Punjabi (4.7%), Polish (1.7%), Tamil (1.6%) and Urdu (1.1%). The borough maintains over 200 green spaces, totalling around 1,800 acres (730 ha). As much of
2296-589: The Batchford area, following construction of the Grand Junction Canal, was resolved in 1825, when an 8-foot-3-inch (2.51 m) obelisk was erected in a pond, to act as a water gauge. It records the agreement made between the canal company, John Dickinson the miller at Batchworth Mill, and R. Williams of Moor Park the landowner. In July 1860, Lord Ebury obtained powers to construct a 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 -mile (7.2 km) single-track railway line,
2378-649: The Colne Valley in the Stone Age. Rickmansworth was one of five manors with which the great Abbey of St Albans had been endowed when founded in 793 by King Offa of Mercia . Local tithes supported the abbey, which provided clergy to serve the people until the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. Around the time of the Domesday Book, the population of "Prichemareworth" may have been about 200. Cardinal Wolsey , in his capacity as Abbot of St Albans, held
2460-739: The Goods' and Leadbetters' houses and surrounding streets in the BBC TV sitcom The Good Life acting as Surbiton . Northwood was first recorded in 1435 as Northwode , formed from the Old English 'north' and 'wode', meaning 'the northern wood', in relation to Ruislip . In the Domesday Book of 1086, the Northwood-embracing parish of Ruislip had immense woodland, sufficient to support one parish with 1,500 pigs per year, and
2542-535: The High Street adjoining the fire station. The site of the later police station on Rectory Road was purchased by Lidl in 2013 and the building was demolished. The residents association (RDRA) have opposed the proposal for a store. Rickmansworth police station is now located within Three Rivers House. Valley Road in Rickmansworth has a frost hollow. This is caused by the local geography, notably
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2624-643: The Hill to Uxbridge in the early 20th century and the gradual establishment of stops along the line, becoming known as " Metro-land ". Hillingdon has a large economy by national standards, ranked 14th out of 408 local area districts in Britain, and ranked fifth out of the London boroughs. British Airways is headquartered in Waterside , Harmondsworth , in Hillingdon. The building officially opened in 1998. Prior to
2706-540: The Hillingdon Music Service. National Rail and London Underground stations in the borough are: In March 2011, the main forms of transport that residents used to travel to work were: driving a car or van, 34.5% of all residents aged 16–74; Underground, metro, light rail, tram, 7.9%; bus, minibus or coach, 7.9%; on foot, 4.6%; train, 2.8%; work mainly at or from home, 2.6%; passenger in a car or van, 2.0%. The Royal Air Force station RAF Northolt
2788-587: The Manor of le More in the valley. The manor house was replaced by the hill-top mansion Moor Park , which eventually became the residence of Admiral Lord Anson , who commissioned Capability Brown to remake the formal gardens, and in 1828 of the Barons Ebury ; it is now the Golf Club House. The wider area, including Croxley Green , Moor Park, Batchworth , Mill End, West Hyde and Chorleywood, formed
2870-478: The Saxon name Ryckmer , the local landowner, and worth meaning a farm or stockade. In the Domesday Book of 1086 it was recorded as the Manor of Prichemaresworde. Other spellings include Rykemarwurthe (1119–46), Richemaresworthe (1180), Rykemerewrthe (1248), Richemereworthe (1259), Rikesmareswrth (1287), Rikmansworth (1382), Rikmeresworth (1396) and Rykemerysworth (1418). There was a settlement in this part of
2952-616: The Watford Rural District, whilst the parish of Rickmansworth Urban became Rickmansworth Urban District. These changes all came into force on 15 April 1898. The first meeting of Rickmansworth Urban District Council was held on 16 April 1898 at the Town Hall at 105 High Street in Rickmansworth. William Culley was elected the first chairman of the council. In 1930, Rickmansworth Urban District Council bought Basing House at 46 High Street in Rickmansworth, which had once been
3034-401: The airline British Eagle had its head office on the grounds of Heathrow Airport. A 2017 study by Trust for London and New Policy Institute found that there is a 22% poverty rate in Hillingdon, slightly below the London-wide figure of 27%. It also found that 24% of Hillingdon's local employees are low-paid, narrowly above the London average of 21%. London Heathrow airport is located in
3116-432: The annual Ricky Week celebrations which occur in May. The town's canal history is remembered at the end of the week with the Rickmansworth Festival organised by Rickmansworth Waterways Trust. The annual Ricky Road Run takes place with more than 500 runners. The annual Victorian Evening , held in the town centre at the end of November, was changed to Starlight Evening in 2011. Inspired by the reference to Rickmansworth on
3198-484: The area in providing for Northwood and Northwood Hills to have the majority of open spaces as opposed to housing land was begun by transfers of open space land to the public as early as 1899. The open nature of the district attracted three hospitals to move or establish in this part of the parish: Mount Vernon Hospital , St. Vincent's Orthopaedic Hospital and Northwood, Pinner and District Hospital. A land survey of Northwood conducted in 1565 by King's College, Cambridge ,
3280-421: The area is within the Metropolitan Green Belt it was, in 2008, one of the least densely populated of all the London boroughs ; open spaces range in size from the Colne Valley Regional Park by the River Colne in the north of the borough, to smaller gardens and parks such as the Norman Leddy Memorial Gardens and Lake Farm Country Park in the south of the borough. Council leader Raymond Puddifoot had given
3362-456: The area. In May 2011, the London Borough of Hillingdon announced Northwood Hills would receive £400,000 in funding for regeneration work. The area is home to Northwood F.C. who play at Chestnut Avenue and play in the Isthmian League South Central Division as of the 2018/2019 season, Northwood Town Cricket Club also play at the same location in the Hertfordshire Cricket League. Northwood Cricket Club play at their Ducks Hill Road ground and are
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3444-745: The borough and is one of the busiest airports in the world. It was originally used by the Royal Air Force. The British Government's UK Visas and Immigration has two immigration removal centres: Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre and Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre in Harmondsworth . The borough includes RAF Northolt and the former sites of RAF Eastcote , RAF South Ruislip , RAF West Drayton , RAF Ruislip 4MU, RAF West Ruislip and RAF Uxbridge . The borough maintains 17 libraries: Charville, Eastcote, Harefield, Harlington, Hayes End, Hayes, Ickenham, Manor Farm, Northwood Hills, Northwood, Oak Farm, Ruislip Manor, South Ruislip, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Yeading, and Yiewsley. Hillingdon has undertaken
3526-529: The borough are Hayes , Ruislip , Northwood , West Drayton and Uxbridge . Hillingdon is the second least densely populated of the London boroughs, due to a combination of rural land in the north, RAF Northolt Aerodrome , and Heathrow Airport. The borough was created in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963 , covering the combined area of the former Municipal Borough of Uxbridge , Hayes and Harlington Urban District , Ruislip-Northwood Urban District and Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District . The area
3608-688: The borough. Ruislip Lido was built as a feeder reservoir for the canal, but was eventually disconnected and changed to become a recreational lido . Two Sites of Special Scientific Interest next to the canal, Frays Farm Meadows and Denham Lock Wood , are managed by the London Wildlife Trust . The borough also operates children's centres, recreational areas for children of under five years of age and their families. The centres include: Barra Hall, Belmore, Cherry Lane, Colham Manor, Cornerstone, Cowley St. Laurence, Harefield, Hillside, McMillan Early Childhood Centre, Nestles Avenue, Oak Farm, and Uxbridge College (Hayes Campus). The borough owns four theatres :
3690-428: The constituency of Ruislip, Northwood and Pinner is currently David Simmonds , who was elected in the December 2019 general election with 55.6% of the vote. The current voting constituency was created from the former Ruislip-Northwood and parts of the Harrow West constituency , for the 6 May 2010 general election . London Borough of Hillingdon The London Borough of Hillingdon ( pronunciation )
3772-399: The course of the modern road from its junction with the Rickmansworth road in the northwest corner of the parish. It then ran south through Ruislip village as Bury Street and continued through the open fields as Down Barns Road (now West End Road) to West End in Northolt . Northwood had a manorial grange in 1248, which may have occupied the site of the later Northwood Grange. The monks of
3854-416: The elevated settlement of Northwood and Northwood Hills, both of which are served by stations on the Metropolitan line of the London Underground . At the 2011 census , the population of Northwood was 10,949, down from 11,068 in 2008, while the population of Northwood Hills was 11,578, up from 10,833 in 2001. Northwood adjoins Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve. It was also used for location filming of
3936-416: The first page of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams : "And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made
4018-472: The former Rickmansworth Urban District. The civil parish of Croxley Green was created on 1 April 1986, covering the eastern part of the former Rickmansworth Urban District and an adjoining area transferred from the parish of Sarratt . The civil parish of Batchworth was created on 1 April 2017 covering the two Three Rivers district wards of Rickmansworth Town, and Moor Park and Eastbury. The Batchworth parish therefore covers much of Rickmansworth, including
4100-408: The home of William Penn . The council converted Basing House to become its offices and meeting place, holding its first meeting there in November 1930. The Rickmansworth Rural parish was abolished in 1935, with most of its area being added to Rickmansworth Urban District and the remainder to the neighbouring parish of Sarratt with effect from 1 April 1935. Rickmansworth Urban District Council
4182-404: The house was used as the leading Officers' Mess, though was subsequently damaged by fire. The RAF vacated the site in 1969, and it is now the location of the British Armed Forces Permanent Joint Headquarters ( PJHQ ) for planning and controlling overseas military operations , together with the NATO Maritime Command. A new community centre on the town's high street, replacing an older building,
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#17327939917764264-481: The issue of further shares to the value of £30,000 (£40,000 worth had already been issued). The service consisted of five trains each way. The line was worked from the outset by the London and North Western Railway (LNWR), which paid the WRR 50% of the gross earnings. The railway was never financially successful and the Official Receiver was called in four years after opening. The company attempted to remedy its financial problems by opening several freight branches,
4346-543: The largest school expansion programme in London, ensuring that all children within the borough can go to a school close to where they live. In May 2011, Hillingdon Council received the Library Innovation of the Year award at the 2011 Bookseller Industry Awards. Also within the borough are Brunel University and Uxbridge College 's Uxbridge and Hayes campuses, as well as the Douay Martyrs Catholic Secondary School and St Bernadette Catholic Primary School. The London Borough of Hillingdon also offers music lessons as part of
4428-421: The link with a second German town, Emden , citing administrative problems. The coat of arms for the London Borough of Hillingdon was granted on 22 March 1965. Between 1973 and 1978, the borough's civic centre was built in Uxbridge. 51°30′N 0°27′W / 51.500°N 0.450°W / 51.500; -0.450 Rickmansworth Rickmansworth ( / ˈ r ɪ k m ən z w ər θ / )
4510-434: The majority of the estate to George Wieland in 1892. By 1902, the population had reached 2,500 in 500 houses and running 36 shops. In 1904, the Emmanuel Church opened in Northwood Hills, designed by Sir Frank Elgood , a local architect. It had been built in 1895, originally to serve as a school. Elgood later served as chairman of the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District Council . Northwood and Pinner Cottage Hospital
4592-414: The most notable being to the Croxley printers and to the Grand Union Canal at Croxley Green . The company was absorbed by the burgeoning LNWR whose station it shared at Watford Junction in 1881. Rickmansworth grew dramatically during the Victorian era and in the 1920s and 1930s as part of Metro-land , due to the extension of Metropolitan Railway , and became a commuter town . Rickmansworth station
4674-501: The new lords of the manor of Ruislip, recorded ten houses and several farms. By 1881, the population of Northwood had reached 257, with 62 houses recorded from 41 people in 1841. David Carnegie owned the large Eastbury Park Estate in the north of the area in 1881. In 1887, the Metropolitan Railway was extended from Harrow-on-the-Hill to Rickmansworth and Carnegie sold his land to Frank Carew for development for £59,422. Northwood station opened in August that year. Carew stipulated
4756-496: The opening of Waterside, the airline's head office was the Speedbird House at London Heathrow Airport . An office of American Airlines is located at the Orient House (HAA3) within Waterside. In 2007 Cadbury Schweppes announced it would be moving to Uxbridge from Mayfair to cut costs. The company later split and Cadbury plc moved to its new head office in Cadbury House in the Uxbridge Business Park in June 2008. Guoman Hotel Management (UK) Limited has its head office in
4838-574: The original parish of Rickmansworth. In 1851, the population had grown to 4,800, and the parish was divided. St Mary's Church serves the parish concentrated in the town and extending to Batchworth and parts of Moor Park. The town had a population of 14,571 recorded at the 2001 census. The three rivers, the Colne, Chess and Gade, provided water for the watercress trade and power for corn milling, silk weaving, paper making and brewing, all long gone. Other industries have included leather-tanning, soft drinks, laundry, straw-plaiting and stocking production. Now,
4920-432: The parish was included in the Watford Poor Law Union , established in 1835. When sanitary districts were created in 1872, the parish of Rickmansworth therefore became part of the Watford Rural Sanitary District, which in turn became Watford Rural District in December 1894. Shortly after Watford Rural District had been created, the process of creating an urban district for the town of Rickmansworth began. An inquiry
5002-441: The population non-religious. Women made up 52.6% of the population, with men at 47.4%. The area is served by Northwood , Northwood Hills and Moor Park London Underground stations, on the Metropolitan line . The area is also served by Transport for London contracted bus routes 282 , 331 and H11 , connecting the area to Ruislip , Harrow , Northolt , Denham , Greenford , Uxbridge and Ealing Hospital . The area
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#17327939917765084-408: The prices for the new housing he had built, with the cottages along the west side of the High Street priced at £120. He had hoped these would be owned by the staff of the larger houses. The High Street itself had been a track leading on from Rickmansworth Road to Gate Hill Farm. The first shops opened in 1895 on the east side of the road, and included a hairdresser, butchers and a fishmongers. Carew sold
5166-441: The pub appears on one of his album covers. Each May one of the largest Scout Jumble sales in the country is held by 1st Northwood on the land next to their headquarters, the Hogs Back. Northwood secondary school and Sixth Form is located in Potter Street (the former name of the school). The Olympic boxer Audley Harrison and Big Brother contestant Nikki Grahame are alumni of the school. Northwood Grange incorporates
5248-412: The railway embankment which prevents the natural drainage of cold air from a specific part of the valley. The greatest daily temperature range in England was recorded on 29 August 1936 in Rickmansworth when the temperature climbed from 1.1 °C at dawn to 24.9 °C within 9 hours due to this unusual geographic feature. Rickmansworth was an ancient parish . Following the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834
5330-430: The rest of the parish by a belt of woodland, took until the 19th century to form a village — 350 acres (140 ha) in the manor of St. Catherine's were inclosed under the first Middlesex Inclosure Act in 1769 privatizing land which lay west of Ducks Hill Road, including West Wood (now Mad Bess Wood ) which was common ground . A further 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of Ruislip parish were inclosed in 1804. The character of
5412-444: The rest of the parish, has attracted much expensive building, particularly in and around Copse Wood Way, along Green Lane and at the northern end of Ducks Hill Road. Northwood post town extends into two contiguous neighbourhoods in Hertfordshire named Eastbury and Moor Park . A triangular area of Northwood including the old High Street, Chester Road and Hallowell Road is a place of Local Architectural Special Interest,
5494-495: The rivers, canal and flooded gravel pits provide for recreation. West Mill, a water mill, existed at the time of the Domesday Survey. It was leased to the abbot and convent of St Albans by Ralph Bukberd for a term of years ending in 1539. In 1533, they leased it from the end of this term for twenty-six years to Richard Wilson of Watford. He was to keep in repair the mill and also two millstones, 10 inches (25 centimetres) thick, and 4 ft 8 in (142 cm) in breadth. The mill
5576-512: The site of Affinity Water. Scotsbridge Mill was also productive but is now a restaurant with the unusual feature of a salmon run. During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries many of the principal inhabitants were described as "clothiers", from which it may be inferred that the manufacture of cloth was at one time carried on in the parish, but this industry has long since ceased. There were also silk and flock mills here, described in 1808 as recently built. A long-running dispute over water levels in
5658-471: The south and had a population of 11,441 in 2008 according to the Office for National Statistics . The land on which Northwood Hills, Haste Hill Golf Club and most of Northwood now stand was once the Great Common Wood. This covered 860 acres (350 ha) in the 16th century, which residents would use for grazing their livestock and collecting firewood. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury achieved inclosure from Parliament and sold 568 acres (230 ha) of
5740-399: The town centre. The Batchworth and Croxley Green parishes do not cover the whole of the former Rickmansworth Urban District, with two areas remaining unparished: one around Maple Cross and Mill End , and another near Loudwater . Watersmeet is a 515-seat theatre complex owned by the Three Rivers District Council in the town centre. Its auditorium can be transformed from a raked theatre to
5822-415: The west. In July 2009, it received a Green Flag Award for parks and open spaces which meet high standards. The lakes are old gravel quarries filled with water and stocked with fish but only Batchworth Lake is available for fishing. Some gravel from the site was used to build Wembley Stadium in 1923. Batchworth Lake is popular for water skiing events and hosts the Rickmansworth Water Ski Club. Bury Lake
5904-622: The wood in 1608 for £4000. The remaining woodland became Copse Wood, part of the Ruislip Woods , a national nature reserve. Northwood Hills has intermixed in its area the only social housing estates beyond one street of the area; much of its private housing stock was built during the 1930s by the Belton Estates company led by Harry Peachey while Harry Neal was responsible for building the shopping parade in Joel Street. Its name
5986-554: The years, other sports clubs have moved into the grounds, including Chess Valley Rugby Football Club and Rickmansworth & Chess Valley Hockey Clubs. Rickmansworth Golf Course is adjacent to Moor Park golf course. Rickmansworth Lawn Tennis Club also hosts Rickmansworth table tennis club matches. Rickmansworth Water Ski Club is located on Batchworth Lake. Rickmansworth hosts a sub-aqua Club. The William Penn Leisure Centre has an indoor swimming pool and sports facilities. Because of its proximity to London, television signals are received from
6068-589: Was built in 1926 as a memorial to the First World War , using donations from the Ruislip Cottagers' Allotments Charity. Northwood is home to Northwood Headquarters , in the grounds of Eastbury Park, the estate purchased by David Carnegie in 1857. The Royal Air Force took over the site in 1939 for the use of RAF Coastal Command which made use of Eastbury house and also created a network of underground bunkers and operations blocks, at which time
6150-550: Was chosen in a competition by a woman from North Harrow as the land was split between Northwood, North Harrow and Ruislip parishes. The first houses were built in Potter Street. The Namaste Lounge Restaurant (formerly known as Northwood Hills public house and the Northwood Hills Hotel before that) opposite the tube station is accredited as where Sir Elton John first performed professionally. A picture of
6232-485: Was granted a coat of arms on 30 October 1953. Under the Local Government Act 1972 , Rickmansworth Urban District was abolished, becoming part of the district of Three Rivers on 1 April 1974. No successor parish was created for Rickmansworth in 1974 and so it became an unparished area , governed directly by Three Rivers District Council. Two parish councils were subsequently created from parts of
6314-518: Was held in February 1896 at the Town Hall in Rickmansworth , considering whether to turn the parish into urban district. The initial conclusion was that the whole parish was not appropriate for becoming an urban district, but that an urban district could perhaps be created for just part of it. It was eventually decided to split the parish of Rickmansworth into three parts. The hamlet of Chorleywood
6396-419: Was intended to be local landmark but was kept and is now built in neatly to the street façade of the high street. At the 2021 census, the Northwood ward had a population of 11,310, a slight increase from 2011. The largest ethnic group in Northwood is White (51.5%) followed by Asian (36.5%). The largest religion was Christianity (39.4%), followed by Hinduism (19.5%), Islam (10.9%) and Judaism (4.7%), with 19.1% of
6478-427: Was leased in 1544 to William Hutchinson, yeoman of the spicery, and Janet his wife for their lives. It afterwards came to John Wilson, and was granted in 1576–77 to Richard Master. There was also a water-mill called Batchworth Mill, and a fishery called Blacketts Mill in Rickmansworth. Batchworth Mill was later used as a cotton mill, but was bought in 1820 by John Dickinson & Co., and converted into paper mills, now
6560-446: Was made into a separate parish, whilst the remainder of Rickmansworth parish was split between a Rickmansworth Urban parish (covering the built-up area including Mill End , Rickmansworth and Croxley Green ), and a Rickmansworth Rural parish. The Rickmansworth Rural parish was not one contiguous area, but a number of detached pieces of land around the edges of the original parish. The Chorleywood and Rickmansworth Rural parishes remained in
6642-777: Was officially opened by the local MP Nick Hurd in September 2012. The new building was named the Kate Fassnidge Community Centre after the Uxbridge landowner who donated some of her land to the borough, and replaced a derelict dining club that had originally been a Ritz cinema. On 4 July 1948 a Scandinavian Airlines Douglas DC-6 on a flight from Amsterdam to RAF Northolt collided with an RAF Avro York coming from Malta over Northwood. Both aircraft crashed, killing all 39 people on both aircraft. The rural nature of Northwood, with extensive views over
6724-416: Was transferred from Middlesex to Greater London to become one of the 32 London Boroughs. The councils involved were initially unable to decide upon a name, with Keith Joseph suggesting "Uxbridge" in October 1963, later revised to Hillingdon. The local authority is Hillingdon Council, based at Hillingdon Civic Centre in Uxbridge. The borough is divided into 21 wards : Since 2000, for elections to
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