Heathrow, London

Heathrow was a small hamlet of Middlesex on the outskirts of London, that was demolished in 1944 for the construction of London Heathrow Airport. The hamlet was a mile and a half east of Longford; its site is now part of the London Borough of Hillingdon. A sizeable Neolithic settlement is believed to have been in the Heathrow area, as many artefacts have been found in the gravel around what is now the airport, and the Colne Valley. Waste pits filled with struck flint, arrowheads and fragments of pottery were also found in the area, indicating a settlement, though none other remains of such a settlement. Heathrow was one of the last settlements formed in the parish of Harmondsworth. Its name was previously La Hetherewe (about year 1410,...