Denham, Buckinghamshire
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Denham is a village in Buckinghamshire, England. It is located just north west of Uxbridge, at junction 1 of the M40.
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 more parts of Denham. Modern day Denham consists of:
- Denham Village, as above
- Denham Green grew up around the shops beside Denham station on Chiltern Line. Alexander Korda's Denham Film Studios, sited between the junction of the Rickmansworth Road (now the A412 North Orbital road) and Moor Hall Road towards Harefield, provided some 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 Metro-land. 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. During a burglary in 2002, £1 million was stolen in gems alone. According to reports from local residents, she is "not well liked" in the local vicinity of her house due to issues with trees lining her property blocking out sunlight to others gardens.[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 beside the church.
- Roger Moore - lived in Denham
- Paul Daniels - lived in Denham
- Shane Ritchie - lived in Denham
- Robert Lindsay- lives in Denham
- Raymond Baxter- lived in Denham until 1978
[edit] Images of Denham
 The Parish Church |
