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Did you know...
... that the Great Barn within the Manor Farm site in Ruislip was built around 1280, using timber from the nearby Ruislip Woods?

... that Ruislip Manor was largely undeveloped rural land at the turn of the 20th century until the arrival of the Metropolitan Railway in 1912?

... that the 17th century Jacobean mansion Swakeleys House in Ickenham was visited by Samuel Pepys in 1665 and recorded in his diary?

... that the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District was formed in 1904 following concerns over the expansion of the Metropolitan Railway and the growth in population of Northwood?

... that Hillingdon House once housed the Royal Flying Corps Armament School, which established a firing range in the grounds?

... that timber from the Ruislip Woods was used in the construction of the Tower of London, Windsor Castle, the Palace of Westminster, and the manor of the Black Prince in Kennington?

... that the Royal Aeronautical Society held garden parties at Fairey Aviation's Great West Aerodrome in Heathrow, which is now Heathrow Airport?

... that the future British prime minister Winston Churchill stayed at Highgrove House in Eastcote for his honeymoon?''

... that the oldest parts of St Giles' Church in Ickenham were built in 1335?

... that in 1463 Thomas Bettz left £26 13s 4d in his will—a fortune in those days—to help pay for the repair of the bells of St Martin's Church in Ruislip?

... that after an unexploded bomb burst through her bedroom wall, a resident of Hillingdon Court told staff it was time she went to the air-raid shelter?

... that the coach house, dovecote and the Eastcote House Gardens are all that remain of the 16th-century Eastcote House?

... that Lawrence James Baker son married the sister of his architect, and the married couple lived in a house within the grounds of Haydon Hall designed by the bride's brother?

... that during the Second World War, what became Battle of Britain House in Ruislip was used for the training of American agents for sabotage missions carried out in occupied France?

... that Ruislip High School is the fictional "Rudge Park Comprehensive" from the E4 television series The Inbetweeners?

... that the records of many of EMI's popular artists including The Beatles, Cliff Richard and Pink Floyd were manufactured at what is now The Old Vinyl Factory in Hayes in Greater London?

... that the roof of the RAF Bomber Command Memorial in Green Park is made of aluminium from a crashed Handley Page Halifax?

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