Eastcote

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Eastcote

Coordinates: 51.5842° N 0.3897° W
OS grid reference	TQ115885
London borough	Hillingdon
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Constituent country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	PINNER
Postcode district	HA5, HA4
Dial code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
UK Parliament	Ruislip Northwood
London Assembly	Ealing and Hillingdon
European Parliament	London
List of places: UK • England • 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.

1 Culture and Entertainment
2 History
3 Transport
4 Famous People From Eastcote

[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.

Eastcote had an outstation from the Bletchley Park codebreaking establishment, where some of the Bombes used to decode German Enigma messages in World War Two were housed.