LONDON BOROUGH OF HILLINGDON

1st Associated Chartered Surveyors cover the whole of the UK including Hillingdon and Inner London for example in: Harefield, Ruislip, Yiewsley, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Heathrow and Hayes

Harefield is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon and is positioned on top of a hill.

It is probably best known for being home to Harefield Hospital where pioneering heart surgery techniques were developed.

The Grade 2 listed building Harefield House situated in the High Street was built by Sir Roger Newdigate in the 1750's. It was occupied from around 1765 1809 by J M Bruhl. During the Second World War it served as the Australian Auxiliary Hospital and in 1937 was acquired by the Ministry of Defence. Approximately forty five years on the building was restored and converted into office space.

The famous biologist and Nobel Prize winner Alexander Flemming who discovered penicillin was based at Harefield Hospital in 1939. If you visit the hospital today you will see a plaque commemorating this.

Harefield United Football Club is the oldest in Middlesex and was founded in 1868.

The popular singer Brian Connolly of the 70's glam rock group Sweet was born in Harefield. He sadly passed away on the 9 th of February 1997.

Ruislip or Rislepe as it was recorded in the 1086 Domesday Book is thought to mean leaping place on the river where rushes grow and is situated North West of London. It is thought to be the place where the river Pinn could be crossed.

Ruislip Lido is a large 60 acre lake with its sandy beach and narrow gauge railway. It is still rated as one of the top London attractions and is probably best known for being used as the site for filming the famous Cliff Richard film Summer Holiday.

A 700 acre woodland and nature reserve surrounds Ruislip Lido. History indicates that timber from the reserve was used in the building of Windsor Castle . Today however, the woods offer the visitor peaceful escapism from their busy lives with the opportunity for long relaxing walks and horse riding.

Yiewsley - Yiewsley comes from the Anglo-Saxon word Wifelesleah which means Wifel's woodland clearing.

The 40 square miles of countryside that make up Colne Valley Regional Park are situated approximately six miles from Yiewsley. They offer the visitor a variety of woodland, farmland and waterways to discover.

Just six miles away is Boston Manor House. An excellent Jacobean manor house built in 1623.

Uxbridge is a large suburban town and the administrative headquarters for the London Borough of Hillingdon.

In the 7th Century Uxbridge was known as Wuxen Bridge ' by a Saxon tribe.

Uxbridge comes under the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London and today is a suburban area, however in years gone by Bronze age settlers were in the area 700 years B.C. as remains were found when the The Chimes shopping centre was being built, and also Paleolithic remains have been found in nearby Denham.

If you are a keen shopper Uxbridge is right up your street with its two shopping centres The Mall and The Chimes.

The RAF base at Uxbridge sadly closed on the 31 March 2010. The 200 acre site is to be re-developed with plans to build primary schools, new homes and health facilities. However, what has remained is the World War II Bunker which served as the control room for the RAF during the Battle of Britain. It is situated on what was the RAF base and is open to the public for viewing.

Scholars alike will know that the renowned Brunel University famous for its engineering excellence is located in Uxbridge. It was founded in 1966 and named after Isambard Kingdom Brunel the famous British engineer. Today it welcomes approximately 15,000 students from around the world.

Uxbridge and its surrounding areas have often been used as filming locations over the years and just a taster of some of the more famous ones are; The Sweeney, a 1970's police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad namely John Thaw and Dennis Waterman, The Inbetweeners a BAFTA award winning sitcom about teenage friends struggling through school and Extras a British sitcom about extras working on a film set starring Ricky Gervais.

London Heathrow Airport is located about five miles from Uxbridge centre. Uxbridge itself is on both Metropolitan and Piccadilly underground lines giving direct links through to the West End and beyond.

West Drayton lies just south of Hillingdon which is split by the Great Western Railway and the Gran Union Canal which both run east-west.

The Green is a conservation area within West Drayton. It incorporates a number of listed buildings both residential and business that date back to the 1890's.

RAF West Drayton was situated within a mile of Heathrow Airport and was previously the main centre for military and civilian air traffic control in Britain . The site closed for civil use in 2007 and for military use in 2008 and relocated to Swanwick, Southampton. Plans for the 31 acre site include new homes, healthcare facilities, nursing home and commercial premises.

Heathrow When we all think about Heathrow we automatically think of Heathrow Airport . The UK 's busiest airport with approximately 64 million passengers per year, 90 airlines and around 170 destinations Wow! Located approximately one mile from the Borough of Hillingdon the airport has excellent public transport links.

Terminal 5 is the latest expansion to Heathrow which opened its doors to customers in March 2008. It is the largest free-standing building in the UK and is as big as 50 football pitches or Hyde Park in central London .

Hayes is a suburban development near Hillingdon. The name comes from and Anglo-Saxon word meaning land overgrown with brushwood.

Before the end of the 19th century Hayes was mainly a farming and brick making area. With the building of the Grand Junction Canal (now called the Grand Union Canal ) and the Great Western Railway in the late 19th and 20th centuries, Hayes became an industrial area with good transport links. With this industrial development residential areas were added after the First World War to be used as homes for people working in the local industries. Hayes is a good example of the Second Industrial Revolution as an area which has developed on the edge of a city due to the creation of new light engineering industries and where houses were later added for the workers.

The famous footballer Glenn Hoddle was born in Hayes on the 27 th October 1957.

Several other famous people grew up in Hayes including Greg Dyke (former Director General of the BBC) and Ray Wilkins (former England Captain).