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Eastcote, is a Greater London suburb in the London Borough of Hillingdon
London Borough of Hillingdon

The London Borough of Hillingdon is the westernmost borough in Greater London, England. It is home to Brunel University, London Heathrow Airport and Disablement Association of Hillingdon....
. The 2001 UK census
United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th Census in the United Kingdom....
 gave the population of the Eastcote and South Ruislip
South Ruislip

South Ruislip is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon, situated very close to RAF Northolt.The population, according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, was 10,823....
 Ward as 11,480.

erly home of an American Air Force Base and elementary school, Eastcote is home to the historical dovecot and coach house to the now demolished Elizabethan Eastcote House. Eastcote House was home to the Hawtrey
Kay Hawtrey

Kay Hawtrey is a Canada actress, born in Toronto on November 8, 1926.Full name Katharine Mary Craven Hawtrey, she is part of the Canadian branch of this very old English family, whose seat was the Elizabethan era Eastcote House in the London suburb of Eastcote, which was demolished to make way for the London underground extension....
 family. Two other key houses were the centres of life in old Eastcote, Haydon Hall (again demolished in the 1960s) whose most famous resident was Lady Bankes, who resisted soldiers in the Civil War from taking Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle

Corfe Castle is a village, civil parish and ruins castle, in the England county of Dorset. The castle dates back to the 11th century, and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham, Dorset and Swanage....
, Dorset.






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Eastcote, is a Greater London suburb in the London Borough of Hillingdon
London Borough of Hillingdon

The London Borough of Hillingdon is the westernmost borough in Greater London, England. It is home to Brunel University, London Heathrow Airport and Disablement Association of Hillingdon....
. The 2001 UK census
United Kingdom Census 2001

A nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th Census in the United Kingdom....
 gave the population of the Eastcote and South Ruislip
South Ruislip

South Ruislip is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon, situated very close to RAF Northolt.The population, according to the United Kingdom Census 2001, was 10,823....
 Ward as 11,480.

History

Formerly home of an American Air Force Base and elementary school, Eastcote is home to the historical dovecot and coach house to the now demolished Elizabethan Eastcote House. Eastcote House was home to the Hawtrey
Kay Hawtrey

Kay Hawtrey is a Canada actress, born in Toronto on November 8, 1926.Full name Katharine Mary Craven Hawtrey, she is part of the Canadian branch of this very old English family, whose seat was the Elizabethan era Eastcote House in the London suburb of Eastcote, which was demolished to make way for the London underground extension....
 family. Two other key houses were the centres of life in old Eastcote, Haydon Hall (again demolished in the 1960s) whose most famous resident was Lady Bankes, who resisted soldiers in the Civil War from taking Corfe Castle
Corfe Castle

Corfe Castle is a village, civil parish and ruins castle, in the England county of Dorset. The castle dates back to the 11th century, and commands a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham, Dorset and Swanage....
, Dorset. Highgrove House is the third, and this still stands, although it was rebuilt in c1879 after a fire gutted much of the original building. Churchill is said to have stayed there during his honeymoon and the Queen of Sweden was resident during World War One.

In the same place is also a walled garden which is believed to be of the same age. Similarly Haydon Hall, another grand manor house from the area was pulled down in the 1960s.The London Underground line came to Eastcote in 1904, and now both the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines run through Eastcote.

During and just after World War II
World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Eastcote had an outstation from the Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park

Bletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire. Since 1967, Bletchley has been part of Milton Keynes, England....
 codebreaking establishment, where some of the Bombe
Bombe

In the history of cryptography, the bombe was an electromechanical device used by United Kingdom cryptologists to help break Germany Enigma machine-generated signals during World War II....
s and two Colossus code breakers which were used to decode German Enigma
Enigma machine

The Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines that have been used to generate ciphers for the encryption and decryption of secret messages....
 messages were housed. This closed when GCHQ was established at Cheltenham
Cheltenham

Cheltenham , or Cheltenham Spa, is a large spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, England. The town has a population of 110,013 . The people of the town are known as "Cheltonians"....
.

Culture and Entertainment

Eastcote is home to several pubs and bars split between the more modern establishments on the main shopping parade, such as The Manor (formally The Manor House), Champers wine bar and the RE bar on Field End Road. More locals pubs are the Black Horse and The Case is Altered in Eastcote Village. For live music and clubs the adjacent tube station connects to Harrow, Uxbridge and Central London easily. It is also home to many parks and open spaces.

Notable people associated with Eastcote

  • The Sweet - 70's pop band also lived in Eastcote.
  • Siobhan Donaghy
    Siobhán Donaghy

    Siobh?n Emma Donaghy , is an English singer songwriter. Until September 2001, she was a founding member of English pop group the Sugababes, after which she was replaced by Heidi Range....
     (born 1984), pop singer.
  • Robert Cowlin - ' vocalist and drum-machine programmer and
  • Fearne Cotton
    Fearne Cotton

    Fearne Cotton is an England presenter known for presenting a number of popular TV programmes such as Top of the Pops and the Red Nose Day telethon....
     - TV Presenter
  • Jan Southgate
    Jan Southgate

    Janet Southgate is a former English women's cricket team cricketer who played 13 women's test matches and 17 women's one-day internationals from 1976 to 1985....
     (born 1955), cricketer


Transport and locale


Nearest places

  • Pinner
    Pinner

    Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow in Greater London, England, north-west of Charing Cross. The area was in the Counties of the United Kingdom of Middlesex until 1965, when it was absorbed by the London Government Act 1963 into Greater London....
  • Rayners Lane
    Rayners Lane

    Rayners Lane is a district in the London Borough of Harrow. It is named after the Rayners Lane tube station, which in turn is named after the long and winding road that expands through Pinner and West Harrow....
  • Northwood
  • Ruislip
    Ruislip

    Ruislip is a place in the London Borough of London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, England...


Nearest tube station

  • Eastcote tube station
    Eastcote tube station

    Eastcote is a London Underground station in Eastcote in north London. The station is on the Uxbridge tube station of both the Metropolitan line and Piccadilly line, between Rayners Lane tube station and Ruislip Manor tube station stations....
     (Piccadilly Line
    Piccadilly Line

    The Piccadilly line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. It is the third busiest line on the Underground network judged by its passengers per annum....
     & Metropolitan Line
    Metropolitan Line

    The Metropolitan line is part of the London Underground. It is coloured in TfL's Corporate Magenta on the Tube map and in other branding. It was the first rapid transit in the world, opening on 10 January 1863 ....
    )