Harmondsworth Great Barn
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Harmondsworth Great Barn
Harmondsworth Great Barn.
Owned by English heritage
Harmondsworth Great Barn is a medieval Tithe Barn and is the largest timber framed building in England.
Filmed with a Parrot Bebop drone.
Film by Will Hutchinson.
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Great Coxwell Medieval Tithe Barn : Finest in England
Mediæval barn that was built about AD 1292 for Beaulieu Abbey to store the crop of its monastic grange. When I went there on a lovely October morning there wasn't a soul in sight . The only Facilities are nearby in Coleshill, you will find the Carpenters Canteen tearoom and toilets.
The complexity of the roof construction is without parallel in England; the only comparable structures at this time period are from continental Europe. A similar barn at Beaulieu St Leonards, also owned by Beaulieu Abbey, may have been similar, but unfortunately has not survived intact. So in every sense, Great Coxwell Barn is a unique medieval structure.
William Morris often took guests at Kelmscott Manor to visit this 'cathedral' .
The property is owned by the National Trust.
Harmondsworth - Heathrow
Harmondsworth is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon with a short border to the south onto London Heathrow Airport. The village has no railway stations; however, it adjoins the M4 motorway and the Bath Road (the A4). Harmondsworth is an ancient parish which once included the large hamlets of Heathrow, Longford and Sipson. Longford and Sipson have modern signposts and facilities as separate villages, remaining to a degree interdependent such as for schooling. Its Great Barn and its church are well-repaired medieval buildings in the village. The largest proportion of land in commercial use is related to air transport and hospitality. The village includes public parkland with footpaths and butts onto the River Colne and further land in its regional park to the west, within Colnbrook.
The west of the village has two major airline headquarters (international and local) and two immigration detention centres, including one for a maximum of 620 men without either adequate proof of right of entry to or to remain in the United Kingdom. Many international visitors stay within the bounds of Harmondsworth each year, in hotels branded as Heathrow, as the hamlet of Heathrow and the farm of Perry Oaks in the parish were absorbed by the airport, and the name is applied to all hotels accessed from Bath Road in the borough.
In October 2016 it was announced by HM Government that Heathrow Airport would receive permission to apply for a third runway. According to current expansion plans, around half of the existing village of Harmondsworth will have to be demolished to make way for the north-west runway and surrounding grass safety area. The other half, including the parish church and Great Barn, will be only a few metres from the airport perimeter.
Harmondsworth Barn 25.08.13
Harmondsworth Barn was rescued by English Heritage after years of neglect, this Grade I listed barn ranks alongside the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey for its exceptional architectural and historic interest. Dubbed by the late poet laureate and heritage campaigner Sir John Betjeman as the Cathedral of Middlesex, Built in 1426 by Winchester College as part of its manor farm at Harmondsworth, the oak-framed barn is an outstanding example of medieval carpentry and contains one of the most intact interiors of its era. At nearly 60 metres long, 12 metres wide and 11 metres tall, with 13 massive oak trusses holding up the roof, both its size and aisles evoke the space and shape of a cathedral.
Harmondsworth Barn 12th April
Harmondsworth Barn is in danger from the development of the third runway at Heathrow. This medieval building, almost unchanged in 500 years, and a working barn until 1978, must be protected. The Morris dancers are there to publicise it's plight.
Large Heron at historic Great Coxwell Tithe Barn Faringdon Oxfordshire England UK
Sept 2015
[Wikipedia] Harmondsworth
Harmondsworth is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon with a short border to the south onto London Heathrow Airport. The village has no railway stations; however, it adjoins the M4 motorway and is bisected by its predecessor, the Bath Road. Harmondsworth is an ancient parish which once included the large hamlets of Heathrow, Longford and Sipson. Longford and Sipson have modern signposts and facilities as separate villages, remaining to a degree interdependent such as for schooling. Its great barn and its church are well-repaired medieval buildings in the village. The largest proportion of land in commercial use is related to air transport and hospitality. The village includes public parkland with footpaths and butts onto the River Colne and further land in its regional park to the west, within Colnbrook.
The west of the village has two major airline headquarters (international and local) and two immigration detention centres, including one for a maximum of 620 men without either adequate proof of right of entry to, or to remain in, the United Kingdom. Many international visitors stay within the bounds of Harmondsworth each year, in hotels branded as Heathrow, as the hamlet of Heathrow and the farm of Perry Oaks in the parish were absorbed by the airport, and the name is applied to all hotels accessed from Bath Road in the borough.
The village made headlines on 25th October 2016 as it was announced by HM Government that Heathrow Airport would now get permission to apply for a third runway. According to current expansion plans, around half of the existing village will have to be demolished to make way for the north-west runway or rather the grassy space that surrounds the runway. The other half, including the parish church and Great Barn, will be only metres or yards from the perimeter of the airport.
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The Great Barn
The Great Barn at Hales Hall and the Hall itself were built in 1478 and the present Hall is the surviving wing of an even larger house built by Sir James Hobart, the Attorney General to Henry VII. There have been buildings on the site since Roman times.
The 178ft Great Barn is the largest surviving brick-built medieval barn in Britain and features a superb example of a 'queen-post' roof.
The Hall and Great Barn had fallen into agricultural use by 1971 when it was purchased by the Read family. It has been lovingly restored and owners Peter Sheppard and Keith Day plan to continue the restoration in the future.
Hales Hall is set on the edge of Hales Green, one of only a few 'commons' still grazed by cattle in the summer and is a haven for wildlife. At the heart of the Waveney Valley, Hales is surrounded by market towns and is close to the historic city of Norwich and within easy reach of the Norfolk and Suffolk coast.
As well as an exceptionally beautiful venue for weddings, the Great Barn has been used for theatrical performances by local theatre groups and as the backdrop to commercial product launches.
Historic Great Coxwell Tithe Barn c 1292 Faringdon Oxfordshire England UK
Sept 2015
Bredon Barn England
Just a neat barn built approximately 1350.
A Walk In Harmondsworth
On a bright autumn afternoon I took a walk around Harmondsworth.
This is a village that sits adjacent to London Heathrow Airport and is under threat of being bulldozed away to make way for the third runway. As anyone would imagine the people who live there ain’t best pleased. If this ever does happen, it’s quite a few years away, but they live with the threat everyday. I doubt they will stop campaigning until the bulldozers move in and break the first sod.
It’s a very picturesque village. Not ‘chocolate-box’ pretty but pretty enough. It has a couple of pubs and a village shop both sit close to the church. The walk we went on was around two and half miles, mainly on the flat though there were a couple of hills, but nothing that was too strenuous.
It has rivers, bridges, kissing gates, turnstiles and lots of woodland and greenery. At this time of year the trees are mainly bare though a few still hold on to their leaves. There’s also a lake, with ducks and swans.
The walk took us about two hours but only because I stopped fairly often to take pictures. Had I been walking without my camera then I doubt it would have taken an hour.
Aircraft noise, despite its proximity to Heathrow, is almost non-existent. Modern jets don’t make very much noise and I was told by a local lady walking her dog that they no longer complain about it. However, as I’ve already said they are fighting tooth and nail to stop the third runway from ever happening.
But there was a fair bit of noise on the walk. This is because it sits adjacent to the M25 motorway and the M4 junction. Unfortunately despite a bit of baffling by the trees it’s gives out a constant hum of traffic. I’m sure at busier times it’s quieter. This is because it crawls through this part of the motorway and the speed rarely gets above twenty or thirty miles an hour, if you’re lucky! I know because I’ve been in it often enough!
The pictures are a mixture of trees, ducks, a couple of swans and the lake. And some gates. Bright sunlight, especially with low sun at this time of year often isn’t good for taking photographs. But the reflections and the shadows can often make a dull scene brighter and more photogenic.
No masterpieces here though I do think a couple of pictures of the swans are moderately worthy.
Only the viewer will tell if they’re good to ponder on. :-)
Harmondsworth Remembers
On July 2014 the community of Harmondsworth held an event to honour the 94 men from their parish that died during World War One. The video was commissioned to commemorate the event but also to record the parish for posterity should the area, it's community, and heritage be destroyed by a third runway at Heathrow Airport. If you wish to help take action against the third runway expansion please visit
Saint Mary's Church of England, Harmondsworth
Great Coxwell - The Cistercian Tithe Barn c.1300
Dating from c.1300, the great barn at Great Coxwell belonged to the Cistercian monks of Beaulieu Abbey, and was used to store the tithing dues of the tenants of the grange. It was much admired by William Morris of Kelmscott. The internal architecture is aisled with double-braced beams and joined with pegged mortice and tenon joints, though the longditudinal timbers are scarfed with splayed joints. Owned now by the English National Trust It's a lovely place for a Summer picnic. See also:
Off road cycle COLNBROOK -HARMONDSWORTH moor
Great Coxwell Barn
Great Coxwell Barn
Great Coxwell barn is roofed
And dimensioned like a church
Dedicated to grain: the groins joined
In wood, the font a flooded trough,
The flagstones floured with meal,
The altar, a well-stuffed sack,
The womb-dark nave an extension
Of a track through the corn.
One gable is a dovecote, its inmates
Taking their own tithe: that tenth
Of the harvest that gluts their squabs,
Makes them plump for the Prior's table.
Empty now, but for a wax Nativity
In winter, the wheat-choir
Chacked with jackdaws,
The floor strawed like a stable.
Poem by Giles Watson, 2011. Great Coxwell Barn, near Faringdon in Oxfordshire, was built in the fourteenth century to store the crops of a monastic grange owned by Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire. It is very large (the main hall measures 144 ft by 38 ft), with stone walls and roof, but a wooden internal structure. It may have functioned as a tithe barn, but was more likely simply a warehouse for the grange itself. There are holes for a dovecote in the eastern wall.
London Districts: Harmondsworth (Documentary)
This episode looks at the threatened west London village district of 'Harmondsworth'. Watch #LondonDistricts episodes on TV with bonus content @ Sky 117, Freeview 8, Virgin Media 159 and YouView 8 via London Live. Subtitles available under video via CC button.
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The district of Harmondsworth is a village within the London Borough of Hillingdon bordering London Heathrow airport in west London.
Harmondsworth is an ancient parish which used to have the nearby hamlets of Longford and Sipson inside it, as well as Heathrow itself which is looking to increase its legroom shortly.
Both the 600-year-old, Grade I-listed Great Barn and the church of St Mary have been well looked after. The original runway plans did away with these two aswell until campaigners put their foot down and said they went too far.
The 400-year-old Five Bells pub has acted as the community centre for protest against the fate of the village and although it just misses the boundary to be demolished, its worried about its economic future.
In 2016, the Government switheroo'd on its vow against a third Heathrow airport runway. This means wiping away half of Harmondsworth Village, including listed buildings, to make way for it. The 10,000+ potentially homeless residents are being offered 125% of the market value for their homes but many feel this is useless up against sentimental value and are extremely upset. Others have now just accepted defeat simply out of exhaustion for fighting and are preparing for the forced life changes.
The Saxon Lake is also safe. It provides some nice scenery and is almost a mile in length plus the water is fairly clear.
Harmondsworth has two immigration detention centres. One of them can hold over 650 people who have no proof of permission to enter the country. The centre detained 27,000 in 2017 and half of them were sent back.
If you read a Penguin Book published before 1990, this little village is where it would have been manufactured.
Harmondsworth doesn't have a rail service but is connected by buses U3 and 350 from Heathrow Terminal 1-3.
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Howbury Moat- Slade Green -Ancient Monument-Grade II Listed Tithe Barn
Howbury Moat- Slade Green -Ancient Monument-Grade II Listed Tithe Barn
Between Slade Green and Crayford Marshes is Howbury Moat, a moated site dating from c.900 that originally surrounded Howbury Manor House. Past Lords of the Manor included Bishop Odo of Bayeux, brother of William the Conqueror, who was given land for the part he played in the Battle of Hastings.
This was formerly the manor of Howbury, recorded simply as Hov in Domesday Book, from the Old English hōh, a heel of land. Slade Green was first mentioned in the 16th century, but the name is probably of earlier origin. A ‘slade’ was “a little dell or valley; or a flat piece of low, moist ground” and it was certainly the latter meaning that applied here.
The ruins and moat of the house called Howbury constitute a scheduled ancient monument, and a Jacobean tithe barn survives, but in deteriorating condition. The structures are on private land and are not generally accessible to the public but can be seen from a nearby footpath
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