Denham, Buckinghamshire

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Denham







Statistics
Population:
Ordnance Survey
OS grid reference:	TQ040860
Administration
District:	South Bucks
Shire county:	Buckinghamshire
Region:	South East England
Constituent country:	England
Sovereign state:	United Kingdom
Other
Ceremonial county:	Buckinghamshire
Historic county:	Buckinghamshire
Services
Police force:	Thames Valley Police
Fire and rescue:	{{{Fire}}}
Ambulance:	South Central
Post office and telephone
Post town:	UXBRIDGE
Postal district:	UB9
Dialling code:	01895
Politics
UK Parliament:	Beaconsfield
European Parliament:	South East England

Denham is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located 5 km (3 miles) northwest of Uxbridge, at junction 1 of the M40, 13 km (8 miles) southeast of Beaconsfield and 29 km (18 miles) west of central London.

The village name is Anglo Saxon in origin, and means "homestead in a valley". It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Deneham. The parish church is dedicated to St Mary.

Housing growth has over the years created several Denhams. Modern day Denham consists of:

Denham Green grew up around the shops beside Denham station on Chiltern Line; Alexander Korda's film studios, sited between the junction of the Rickmansworth Road (now the A412 North Orbital road) and Moor Hall Road towards Harefield, provided further employment
New Denham grew along the old Oxford Road north-west of Uxbridge, west of the Grand Union Canal
Higher Denham was built on the site of a First World War army training and transit camp, placed to take advantage of the adjacent Denham Golf Club station. After the War, the camp land was sold off piecemeal for housing, following a similar trend all over Metroland. Martin-Baker Aircraft Ltd, manufacturers of aircraft ejector seats, have a small factory in Higher Denham
Tatling End, Denham is on the Oxford Road, west of the junction with the A412, at the top of the hill leading out of the Misbourne Valley

The current eastern boundary with the London Borough of Hillingdon is aligned with the Grand Union Canal. A Boundary Commission proposal to reassign to Hillingdon the area of Denham which lies east of the A412 and south of the A40/M40 was not implemented.

The Royal Mail sort Denham's letters in Uxbridge sorting office so Denham comes under the Uxbridge post town. Uxbridge was in the former postal county of Middlesex which meant addresses took the form of "Denham, UXBRIDGE, Middlesex". Since 1996 the former postal county no longer forms part of postal addresses in the UK, but many organisations hold the details in their postcode databases and continue to use them, to the confusion of delivery drivers.

Denham is twinned with Denham in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

[edit] Famous inhabitants

Cilla Black - the singer, entertainer and TV personality has her main residence in Denham Green, bought with deceased husband Bobbie in the 1970s. She like her privacy and security post a 2002 raid on her home, which causes some disturbance to neighbours ^[1]
Sir John Mills - The late film actor was a resident of the village for many years, and is commemorated by a blue plaque attached to his former house
Roger Moore - lived in Denham
Steve Chandra Savale, guitarist and composer of Asian Dub Foundation - lives in Denham
Paul Daniels - lived in Denham
Shane Ritchie - lived in Denham
Robert Lindsay- lives in Denham
Raymond Baxter- lived in Denham until 1978