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    Hounslow Heath is a local nature reserve in the London Borough of Hounslow and at a point borders Richmond upon Thames. The public open space, which covers...
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    the Beavers Lane Camp. Between 1914 and 1920 the heath became Hounslow Heath Aerodrome. Hounslow Heath Aerodrome was a grass airfield and was operational...
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    On Hounslow Heath is a 1770 landscape painting by the Welsh artist Richard Wilson. It depicts a view of Hounslow Heath, then located some miles to the...
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    Hounslow Heath Aerodrome was a grass airfield, operational 1914–1920. It was in the London borough of Hounslow, and hosted the British Empire's first scheduled...
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    of Hounslow – south of the railway and southeast of Hounslow Heath – fall within the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, whilst some of Hounslow –...
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    needed] In January 1995, London United purchased Westlink with garages in Hounslow Heath and Kingston upon Thames. In August 1997 London United was sold to Transdev...
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    (51°28′47″N 0°27′01″W / 51.4798°N 0.4503°W / 51.4798; -0.4503) on Hounslow Heath, a distance of just over 5 miles (8 km). This was a painstaking process:...
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  • Murder of Patsy Morris (category History of the London Borough of Hounslow)
    school during her lunch break, and was found dead in undergrowth on Hounslow Heath near her home two days later. Despite repeated appeals for information...
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  • by a police dog handler on Hounslow Heath. She was discovered face down in a copse beside a path on the edge of the Heath, at a location a quarter of...
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    produced on Hounslow Heath, which at the time covered a large part of Twickenham. The site, beside the River Crane, was to become known as the Hounslow Gunpowder...
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    Heathrow (hamlet) (redirect from Heath Row)
    of Harmondsworth which historically butted on to Hounslow Heath. Yards from the lane, while the heath existed, General William Roy mapped one end of the...
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    former British Army installation located north of Hounslow Heath in Hounslow, west London. Hounslow was one of 40 new barracks established around the...
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    1919 England to Australia flight (category History of the London Borough of Hounslow)
    before midnight on 31 December 1920. The departure point must be either Hounslow Heath Aerodrome (for landplanes) or RNAS Calshot (for seaplanes and flying...
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  • Hounslow Hounslow Heath Aerodromemap29, in the London Borough of Hounslow London Air Park (Hanworth Air Park)map30, in the London Borough of Hounslow...
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    of heathland or woodland. Hounslow Heath was a favourite haunt: it was crossed by the roads to Bath and Exeter. Bagshot Heath in Surrey was another dangerous...
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    the pair relieved a Mr Godfrey of six guineas and a pocket book, on Hounslow Heath. Fearing capture, they moved on to Blackheath in Hertfordshire, and...
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    The 2022 Hounslow London Borough Council election took place on 5 May 2022. All 62 members of Hounslow London Borough Council were elected. The elections...
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    Hounslow Heath Golf Centre was a 117 acres (47 ha) public golf course and centre which comprised an 18-hole course located on Hounslow Heath in Feltham...
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  • executed by William Roy, consisted of the measurements of bases at Hounslow Heath (1784) and Romney Marsh (1787), the measurements of the angles of the...
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    metric tonnes of cargo passing through them annually. In August 1919, Hounslow Heath Aerodrome, in London, England, was the first airport to operate scheduled...
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    north-west, Hounslow to the east and south-east and Hounslow Heath to the south. Features of the area include Beaversfield Park, Hounslows Heath, Beavers...
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    August 1919, the company used DH.16s to start a regular service from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome to Le Bourget, the first regular (daily) international service...
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    Feltham (category Districts of the London Borough of Hounslow)
    set out the baseline of what would become the Ordnance Survey across Hounslow Heath, passing through Feltham. General Roy is commemorated by a local pub...
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    spoke of the need to cultivate the substantial Finchley Common and Hounslow Heath (perhaps prophetic of the Dig for Victory campaign of World War II)...
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    has Charles' brother, James, Duke of York returning from a hunt on Hounslow Heath and stopping his coach along Constitution Hill to avoid hitting the...
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    Feltham and Heston (UK Parliament constituency) (category Politics of the London Borough of Hounslow)
    of the London Borough of Hounslow. Its main predecessor seat was Feltham, comprising Feltham, Bedfont, Hanworth, Hounslow Heath and Cranford; the other...
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    in a local garden in 1838, and given the name of Stanwell Perpetual. Hounslow Heath extended over the area north of Bedfont Road until 1792, and a strip...
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  • which were afterwards identified as having been stolen in one of the Hounslow Heath mounted robberies. Plunkett is supposed to have encouraged MacLaine...
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    Bedfont (category Districts of the London Borough of Hounslow)
    East is the River Crane around which are a few remaining parts of Hounslow Heath. The nearest railway station is at Feltham and the area adjoins the...
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    Isleworth (category Districts of the London Borough of Hounslow)
    a suburban town in the London Borough of Hounslow, West London, England. It lies immediately east of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary...
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