Harmondsworth
| Harmondsworth | |
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| Location | |
|---|---|
| OS grid reference: | TQ055775 |
| Latitude: | 51.486553° |
| Longitude: | -0.479647° |
| Administration | |
| London borough: | Hillingdon |
| County level: | Greater London |
| Region: | London |
| Constituent country: | England |
| Sovereign state: | United Kingdom |
| Other | |
| Ceremonial county: | Greater London |
| Historic county: | Middlesex (1965) |
| Services | |
| Police force: | Metropolitan Police |
| Fire brigade: | London Fire Brigade |
| Ambulance service: | London Ambulance |
| Post office and telephone | |
| Post town: | WEST DRAYTON |
| Postal district: | UB7 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Politics | |
| UK Parliament: | |
| London Assembly: | Ealing and Hillingdon |
| European Parliament: | London |
| London | List of places in London | |
Harmondsworth is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon nearby to London Heathrow Airport.
Harmondsworth is also the name of a UKDS run detention centre/refugee camp there for deportations from the airport and one nextdoor to that called Colnbrook.
If BAA plc are granted permission to build a third runway at Heathrow, much of Harmondsworth will have to be demolished.
British Airways headquarters are here at their Waterside building set in a large public park.
For many years the publisher, Penguin Books, was based here.
Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Heremōdes worþ = "Heremōd's enclosure".
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Nearest railway station:
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Categories
Districts of London | Hillingdon