Places to see in ( Northwood - UK )
Places to see in ( Northwood - UK )
Northwood is an elevated residential settlement in the London Borough of Hillingdon adjoining Ruislip Woods National Nature Reserve and which shares a northern border with Hertfordshire. Northwood was used for location filming of the Goods' and Leadbetters' houses and surrounding streets in the BBC TV situation comedy series The Good Life.
Northwood was first recorded in 1435 as Northwode, formed from the Old English 'north' and 'wode', meaning 'the northern wood', in relation to Ruislip. In 1086 at the Domesday Book the Northwood-embracing parish of Ruislip had immense woodland, sufficient to support one parish with 1,500 pigs per year, and a park for wild beasts (parcus ferarum).
Northwood, however, elevated and separated from the rest of the parish by a belt of woodland, took until the 19th century to form a village — 350 acres (140 ha) in the manor of St. Catherine's were inclosed under the first Middlesex Inclosure Act in 1769 privatizing land which lay west of Ducks Hill Road, including West Wood (now Mad Bess Wood) which was common ground. A further 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) of Ruislip parish were inclosed in 1804. The character of the area in providing for Northwood and Ruislip Hills to have the majority of open spaces as opposed to housing land was begun by transfers of open space land to the public as early as 1899.
Northwood post town extends into two contiguous neighbourhoods in Hertfordshire named Eastbury and Moor Park the south of which share use of the Moor Park tube station (that has fast trains into the centre of London for commuters). A triangular area of Northwood including the old High Street, Chester Road and Hallowell Road is a place of Local Architectural Special Interest, a restriction to protect the ornate Victorian houses made of high quality brickwork. Dotted across the area are 22 listed buildings (for their architecture).
Northwood Hills includes Haste Hill and is separated by green buffers on almost all sides, though touches Eastbury Village to the south and had a population of 11,441 in 2008 according to the Office for National Statistics. Northwood Grange incorporates a 15th-century block with a crown-post roof, a cross-wing of the same date, and a long range of about 1600.
The area is served by Northwood, Northwood Hills and Moor Park London Underground stations, on the Metropolitan line. The area is also served by Transport for London contracted bus routes 282, 331 and H11, connecting the area to Ruislip, Harrow, Northolt, Denham, Greenford, Uxbridge and Ealing Hospital. The area is also served by Arriva Shires & Essex route 8 connecting the area to South Oxhey, Watford, Leavesden and Abbots Langley.
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Northwood, London
Northwood,,London
Coordinates:,51°36′04N,0°25′03W,/,51601°N,04176°W,/,51601;,-04176
Northwood,is,an,elevated,residential,settlement,in,the,London,Borough,of,Hillingdon,adjoining,Ruislip,Woods,National,Nature,Reserve,which,contains,the,Ruislip,Lido,and,which,shares,a,northern,border,with,Hertfordshire
Northwoods,population,was,recorded,as,11,068,in,2008,,by,the,Office,for,National,Statistics1,reducing,to,10,949,in,2011,,and,its,south-eastern,neighbourhood,Northwood,Hills,had,a,population,in,2001,of,10,8333,increasing,to,11,578,in,2011
Northwood,was,used,for,location,filming,of,the,Goods,and,Leadbetters,houses,and,surrounding,streets,in,the,BBC,TV,situation,comedy,series,The,Good,Lifecitation,needed
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12,Early,developments
13,Urban,development
2,1948,Air,Disaster
3,Geography
4,Localities
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52,London,School,of,Theology
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10,Sport
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12,Notable,people
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