Sipson

Sipson is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in west London, England. It is situated 14.3 miles (23 km) west of Charing Cross and near the northern perimeter of London Heathrow Airport. The village's name comes from the Anglo-Saxon Sibbwines tūn: "Sibbwine's farmstead". Sipson village adjoins the famous "Bath Road" (the modern A4)), which linked London to Bath. Historically, Sipson was in the county of Middlesex, which was abolished as a local government entity when Greater London was created in 1965. In 2009 the majority of the village was under threat of demolition owing to the planned expansion of London Heathrow Airport, which would have created a third runway at the airport. However, in March 2010 the English High Court...