Eastcote, is a Greater London suburb in the
London Borough of HillingdonThe London Borough of Hillingdon is the westernmost borough in Greater London, England. It is home to London Heathrow Airport and Brunel University.-History:...
. The
2001 UK censusA nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census....
gave the population of the Eastcote as 11,480.
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
HawtreyKay Hawtrey is a Canadian 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...
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 CastleCorfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.The village lies in the gap below the castle, and is some eight...
, Dorset.
Eastcote, is a Greater London suburb in the
London Borough of HillingdonThe London Borough of Hillingdon is the westernmost borough in Greater London, England. It is home to London Heathrow Airport and Brunel University.-History:...
. The
2001 UK censusA nationwide census, commonly known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK Census....
gave the population of the Eastcote 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
HawtreyKay Hawtrey is a Canadian 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...
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 CastleCorfe Castle is a village and civil parish in the English county of Dorset. It is the site of a ruined castle of the same name. The village and castle stand over a gap in the Purbeck Hills on the route between Wareham and Swanage.The village lies in the gap below the castle, and is some eight...
, 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 IIWorld War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including all great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, Eastcote had an outstation from the
Bletchley ParkBletchley Park, also known as Station X, is an estate located in the town of Bletchley, in Buckinghamshire, England. Since 1967, Bletchley has been part of Milton Keynes....
codebreaking establishment at RAF Lime Grove, where some of the
BombeThe bombe was an electromechanical device used by British cryptologists to help break German Enigma-machine-generated signals during World War II...
s and two Colossus code breakers which were used to decode German
EnigmaAn Enigma machine is any of a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines used for the encryption and decryption of secret messages. The first Enigma was invented by German engineer Arthur Scherbius at the end of World War I...
messages were housed. This closed when GCHQ was established at
CheltenhamCheltenham , or Cheltenham Spa, is a spa town and borough in Gloucestershire, England with a population of 110,013 at the 2001 census. The inhabitants are known as "Cheltonians". Its motto is: Salubritas et Eruditio ....
.
The RAF Lime Grove site was cleared in 2008 for housing redevelopement.
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.
Nearest tube station
- Eastcote tube station
Eastcote is a London Underground station in Eastcote in north London. The station is on the Uxbridge branch of both the Metropolitan line and Piccadilly line, between Rayners Lane and Ruislip Manor stations. The station is located on Field End Road...
(Piccadilly LineThe 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 the number of passengers transported per year. It is mainly a deep-level line running from the north to the west of London via Zone 1, with...
and Metropolitan LineThe 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 underground railway in the world, opening on 10 January 1863...
)