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Yeading Library |
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Yeading
Yeading shown within Greater London |
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| OS grid reference | TQ115825 |
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| London borough | Ealing |
| Hillingdon | |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | London |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HAYES |
| Postcode district | UB4 |
| Post town | NORTHOLT |
| Postcode district | UB5 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| EU Parliament | London |
| UK Parliament | Hayes and Harlington |
| London Assembly | Ealing and Hillingdon |
| List of places: UK • England • London | |
Yeading (pronounced /ˈjɛdɪŋ/ yed-ing) is an area of West London, and part of Hayes. It is located on the boundary of the London Borough of Ealing and the London Borough of Hillingdon.
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Yeading is very early Saxon and was originally Geddingas or Geddinges, meaning "the people of Geddi".[1]
The earliest surviving documented allusion to Yeading dates from 757 AD, in which year Æthelbald of Mercia made a land grant which mentioned Geddinges (Yeading) and Fiscesburne (Crane or Yeading Brook). The first land grant including Yeading was made by Offa in 790 to Æthelhard, Archbishop of Canterbury: "in the place called on linga Haese [Hayes] and Geddinges [Yeading] around the stream called Fiscesburna [Crane or Yeading Brook]."[2]
Anglo-Saxon settlement in Yeading therefore seems probable, but the history of Yeading in subsequent centuries is not as clear as that of Hayes. Such details as the names of many Yeading manor holders remain unknown.[3]
Yeading Dock was one of many docks built along the Grand Union Canal in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The main industry in Hayes and Yeading at this time was brickmaking, and the canal provided a reliable way of transporting larger numbers of bricks. Yeading's brickworkers could be known to keep pigs as a second source of income. A bourgeois writer, one Elizabeth Hunt, wrote in 1861 that in "Yeading dirt, ignorance and darkness reign supreme."[4] In 1874, however, one James Thorne wrote that the inhabitants of Yeading were "always found civil".[5]
Yeading was still not developed in the 1920s. Yeading Lane was often flooded, and access beyond Yeading to Northolt seems to have been by footpath only before the First World War. During the War, a properly constructed road was built linking the Great Western Railway station at Hayes with the L.N.E.R. line at Northolt. Yeading was still mainly a rural area.[6]
After the Second World War, a large prefab estate was erected in Yeading. By 1956, Yeading's Tilbury Square was still without gas and electricity, and oil stoves and open fires were still used; the public house The Willow Tree, reputedly some 400 years old (now demolished), was lit by three cylinders of calor gas.[7] The Yeading Lane estate underwent largescale development in the late 1960s and '70s.
Schools in Yeading include:
Yeading has the following bus routes travelling through it: 90, 120, 140, 282, E6, E7, E9, N7 and N140.
Northolt is the nearest tube station (Central line).
The nearest railway station is Hayes & Harlington, which offers frequent local services to London Paddington in about 15–20 minutes, and services to Slough, Reading and Oxford; every 30 minutes there is a service to London Heathrow Airport. The proposed Crossrail service will pass through Hayes & Harlington.
Yeading Library, Yeading Lane, UB4 0EW.
Pubs in Yeading include:
Football team Hayes & Yeading United F.C. was assembled from the former Hayes F.C. and Yeading F.C.[8]
Yeading's parks and greens provide plenty of opportunity for children to play.
A community radio station, 91.8 Hayes FM, serves Yeading.