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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
... that Hillingdon House once housed the Royal Flying Corps Armament School, which established a firing range in the grounds?
... that timber from the
... that the
... 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's 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
... that
... that the records of many of
... 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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