Dates of our meetings

Our regular meeting are held at 8:00pm on the third Thursday of the month at the Park Lane Village Centre.

The dates for the next three are:

April 20th
May 18th
June 15th

Anybody that lives in Harefield is welcome to attend. We have a disussion of issues that relate to the village, including heath, planning and reports on the external meetings that our Committee Members attend.

We often have guest speakers so please keep an eye on this site or our notice boards near the Post Offices in the village.

National Grid Gas Pipline

You have proberbly heard about the need for a new gas pipeline for the West of London, the construction of which will begin in Harefield and end in Southall. The main gas compound is sited in Hill End Road, opposite Taylor's Meadow. Clearly this proposal will cause local disruption and inconvenience. We have therefore contacted the project team and invited them to our meeting on April 20th, to explain the proposal and answer resident's questions. We have a map of the whole of the proposed pipeline route. If you want to view it please contact John (01895 823491) or Pauline (01895 823940) to arrange.

The National Grid advice line is 0800 731 1231.

A Short History of Harefield

HAREFIELD
Description and History from 1868 Gazetteer

HAREFIELD, a parish in the hundred of Elthorne, county Middlesex, 5 miles N. of Uxbridge.
It is situated on the river Colne and Grand Junction canal. It is mentioned in Domesday as Herefelle, and formerly belonged to Alice de Clare, who founded here a preceptory for the Knights of St. John, as a cell to the Clerkenwell Priory. After the Reformation it passed to the Bacheworths and Stanleys, and from them to the Newdegates. The inhabitants are chiefly engaged in agriculture. The living is a donative curacy,* with a parsonage and 8 acres of glebe attached, in the diocese of London, value £64. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is an ancient structure with square tower and three bells. It contains four ancient brasses, the earliest bearing date 1444; also tombs of the Newdegates, Ashbys, and others, and a monument to the famous Countess of Derby, wife of Lord-Keeper Egerton, the "Amaryllis" of Spenser, and for whom Milton wrote his "Arcades," whilst residing in the neighbouring village of Horton. The register dates from 1539. The parochial charities produce £73 per annum. There are almshouses for 6 widows, founded in 1637 by the Countess of Derby. The principal residences are Breakspear House, the seat of William Drake, Esq.; Harefield Park, of W. F. Vernon, Esq.; and Harefield Place, the seat of the Newdegates, built at the commencement of the present century: the old mansion once occupied by the Countess of Derby, and in which the "Comus" of Milton was acted for the entertainment of her grandchildren, was burnt down in 1660.


[Description(s) from "The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868)

A more detailed history can be found here

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