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- Ruislip station opened in 1904, and a new urban district was created to reflect the forthcoming population growth; the Ruislip-Northwood Urban District split from the Uxbridge Rural District and continued until 1965, when Ruislip became part of the newly established London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Ruislip (/ ˈ r aɪ s l ɪ p / ⓘ RY-slip) is a suburb in the London Borough of Hillingdon in West London. Prior to 1965 it was in Middlesex. Ruislip lies 13.8 miles (22.2 km) west-north-west of Charing Cross, London. The manor of Ruislip appears in the Domesday Book, and some of the earliest settlements still exist today, designated as local ...
Ruislip has a long history, with records from the time of Edward the Confessor showing it was owned by the Saxon Wlward Wit, a thane of the king. The medieval parish of Ruislip covered modern Ruislip, Northwood, Eastcote, Ruislip Manor and South Ruislip.
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Stone hand axes, a Bronze Age spearhead and traces of Roman dwellings have all been found in Ruislip.The manor of Ruislip had been owned by a Saxon named Wlward Wit but after the Conquest he lost it to a Norman knight, Ernulf de Hesdin.There was a Norman castle - probably wooden - on the site of the Manor Farm House. The remains of the castle mound and moat can still be seen.Ernulf de Hesdin gave the manor to the Benedictine monastery of Bec in Normandy. The monks established a small priory at Ruislip. In 1404, the manor became crown property. The last lord of the mano...The Pinn is an ancient rivulet, which is one of the feeders of the Colne. It was, at one time, also known as Ruislip Brook and is nearly 12 miles long.It rises on Harrow Weald Common and flows down through Headstone into Pinner. From there, it runs into Old Eastcote, past Haydon Hall Lodge - from where it flows into Ruislip - through the golf cou...It then crosses Uxbridge Common into Uxbridge, and on through the RAF base to Brunel University. It runs through Pield Heath to join the Frays at Yiewsley. The Frays joins the Colne southwest of Dr...The River Pinn was once a good fishing stream. In 1804, at the time of the Ruislip enclosure, there was a right of way 3 feet wide along the banks of the Pinn, so that the lord of the manor and his...At the beginning of the 19th century, there was no Ruislip Lido. Where it is now was a small shallow valley with a stream and some dwellings along its length, forming the Hamlet of Park Hearne. This hamlet remained until the Ruislip Enclosure of 1804 to 1814. At that time, large areas of land in the old parish of Ruislip, which until then had been ...
The area we now know as Ruislip Manor was covered with open fields at the beginning of the last century. It was part of the Manor of Ruislip, which was owned at that time by King's College, Cambridge.The Metropolitan Railway opened a small halt there in 1912 on the Harrow to Uxbridge line, but there was no housing development until George Ball bought 186 acres south of the railway from King's C...They were mainly small houses aimed at the working man who wanted to become a homeowner. A substantial number were occupied by men from Tyneside and other parts of the north who had come down to Lo...With this influx of people into the area, the small railway halt was no longer adequate and a new station was constructed in 1938. Other facilities were also needed on the estate and space was prov...Ruislip formed part of Uxbridge R.D. until 1904 when Ruislip-Northwood U.D. was constituted. An unsuccessful petition for incorporation as a municipal borough was lodged in 1953. (fn. 3) In 1965 Ruislip-Northwood U.D. was merged with the urban districts of Hayes and Harlington and Yiewsley and West Drayton and the municipal borough of Uxbridge ...
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Ruislip like this: RUISLIP , or Riselip, a village and a parish in Uxbridge district, Middlesex. The village stands 3½ miles N E of Uxbridge r. station; was known, at Domesday, as Rislepe; and has a post-office under Uxbridge.
The Ruislip-Northwood Urban District continued until 1965 when Ruislip became part of the newly established London Borough of Hillingdon. Between 1911 and 1961, Ruislip-Northwood experienced a significant rise in population, from 6,217 to 72,791, largely attributed to the extension of the railway.
After 1894 Ruislip became part of Uxbridge R.D., and had a parish council. In 1904 the parish was separated from the rural districts to form Ruislip-Northwood U.D. The council administered three departments in 1904, with a staff of five, some of whom were part-time, and 15 manual workers.
