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From the Three Magpies, the lane's northern end – much reduced and curtailed today – to Covent Garden is 14 miles (23 km) which was about 6 hours at laden horse-and-wagon speed; goods had to set off before 10 pm the day before to reach the market when it opened at 4 am, [8]: 33 until motor trucks came.
1877: Heathrow School was opened on the north side of the Bath Road, almost opposite The Old Magpies. (The current Earl Strafford donated the land that it was built on.) 1880: The Mission Church of St. Saviour was opened on the north side of the Bath Road, almost opposite The Three Magpies. It was built in corrugated iron. [20]
Adjoining the Green Man is a field where horses, geese, cows and other livestock live: Hounslow Urban Farm [4] next to Hatton Cemetery. It states itself to be the largest "urban" farm in London. Apart from the remaining kernel of Hounslow Heath, the Borough is highly built up or in public parks, having modest average garden size.
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The town of Hounslow, which has existed since the 13th century, is located at the centre of the Borough of Hounslow. The name Hounslow means 'Hund's mound'; the personal name Hund is followed by the Old English hlaew meaning mound or barrow. (The mound may have been his burial place.) It was recorded in the Domesday Book as Honeslaw. [2]
A4, Harlington east of Three Magpies public house and west of Sipson Road turn-off. Remnant of north end is now the pub's car park entry. Ran north beside Staines Reservoirs, bore right into Stanwell, met the B378. Oaks Road in Stanwell is a remnant of its continuation (it is now part of the B378).
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Cranford is a suburban area straddling the London Boroughs of Hillingdon and Hounslow.It is located 12.5 miles (20 km) west of Charing Cross and immediately east of Heathrow Airport, from which it is separated by the River Crane.