Eastcote

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For other uses, see Eastcote (disambiguation).

Location
Eastcote


OS grid reference:	TQ115885
Latitude:	51.584279°
Longitude:	-0.389773°
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
Services
Police force:	Metropolitan Police
Fire brigade:	London Fire Brigade
Ambulance service:	London Ambulance
Post office and telephone
Post town:	PINNER
Postal district:	HA5/HA4
Dialling code:	020
Politics
UK Parliament:	Ruislip Northwood
London Assembly:	Ealing and Hillingdon
European Parliament:	London
London \| List of places in London

Eastcote is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The 2001 UK census gave the population of the Eastcote and South Ruislip Ward as 11,480.

[edit] Culture and Entertainment

Eastcote is home to several pubs such as The Manor on Field End Road and Venue 5 (formally The Clay Pigeon). For live music and clubs the adjacent tube station connects to Harrow, Uxbridge and Central London easily. It is also home to many parks and open spaces and close to Queensmead sports centre.

[edit] History

Formerly home of an American Air Force Base and elementary school, Eastcote is home to the historical dovecot and coach house to the now demolished Elizabethan Eastcote House. Eastcote House was home to the Hawtrey family, and its most famous resident was Lady Bankes, who resisted soldiers in the Civil War from taking Corfe Castle, Dorset.

In the same place is also a walled garden which is believed to be of the same age. Similarly Haydon Hall, another grand manor house from the area was pulled down in the 1960s.The tube line came to Eastcote in 1904, and now both the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines run through Eastcote.