Bolingbroke andOssulston'sDawley House (demolished), north-west of the stationPhotograph of Dawley House, in the spring of 1902. This was the remains of the house ofBolingbroke andOssulston.Photograph of dilapidated Dawley House and barns, Harlington, 1902. (Between the Great Western Railway and the canal). Home ofBolingbroke andOssulston.
The earliest surviving mention of Harlington appears to be in a 9th-century charter in which land at Botwell inHayes was said to be bounded on the west by "Hygeredington" and "Lullinges" tree. The first of these must be Harlington; the second has not been identified.The boundary between Hayes and Harlington, which may thus have been defined by the date of this charter, was later marked by North Hyde Road and Dawley Road, but Dawley Road may not have followed the boundary before the 18th century.[2]
By 1834 theselect vestry (informally known simply as the vestry) employed a paid assistant overseer. In 1824 a surgeon for the poor of Cranford and Harlington was appointed by the vestries of both. Their later co-operation saw the establishment of Harlington's National School jointly with in 1848, and its cottage hospital jointly with Cranford and Harmondsworth in 1884.
In 1924 the civil parish council (CPC) asked Staines Rural District Council (RDC) to light the village street and this was done a year later. The cemetery in Cherry Lane was opened in 1936 by the UDC and the CPC started its first allotments in 1895, but they rejected proposals to acquire a recreation ground or parish hall.See the entry forHayes for the later detailed local history.[2]
The chief task from 1872 for local government was the making of sewers in villages beyond a handful of homes such as this. Sewerage had been discussed in the vestry as long ago as 1864. The increase of population in the 20th century, growing preference forflush toilets and prohibitions on ground water contamination made the need for proper sanitation more urgent. In 1912, for instance, there were said to have been eleven cases oftyphoid near the 'White Hart', and there was an outbreak ofdiphtheria in 1916.
During the 1920s the RDC made plans for constructing sewers, and the relative cost of their scheme and of schemes proposed by Hayes Urban District Council largely influenced the parish council's views on local government reorganisation. In the end the council seem to have acquiesced peacefully in the amalgamation with Hayes that took place in 1930, only on the grounds that this seemed to provide the best and cheapest chance of sewers being constructed soon. A sewerage scheme for the parish was completed by Hayes and Harlington Urban District Council in 1934.[2]
Northern end of the Parish: the Dawley Wall, from the inside, 2014.
Harlington Library[4] is towards the north of the village/district.
The village contains six public houses: Captain Morgans', The Great Western, The Pheasant, The Red Lion, The Wheatsheaf, and The White Hart. There are two churches, a Baptist church and a Church of England church, St Peter & St Paul's. Schools includeHarlington School.
TheGrand Junction Canal runs through the Dawley land, east to west: it was constructed c. 1794–1800.[8]In the late 1830s the main line of theGreat Western Railway was also built across the former Dawley Park (by then Dawley Wall Farm). However,Hayes & Harlington railway station (just outside the parish) was not opened until 1864. Before then there was a choice of the stations atWest Drayton andSouthall, or of the daily omnibus and weekly carrier to London.[9]
A road going south-east towardsHatton was removed because of Heathrow's construction. The road along with Harlington High Street were formerly designatedA312 until the 1950s.
The Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital, in Sipson Lane, opened in 1884, demolished and closed in 1977. Its site hosts a branch of theSant Nirankari Satsang Bhawan.
Manor Farm was demolished between 1930 and 1940 and pre-dated the possibility of statutory listing. It is the site of shops in Manor Parade and adjoining residential roads.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke. He bought Dawley in 1724 and sold it in 1737, or 1738.Lady De Tabley is buried alongside her eldest daughter in the SS Peter & Paul graveyard.
John Derby Allcroft, glove manufacturer and philanthropist. Lived at Harlington Lodge;
Politician and philosopher,Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (1678–1751),[15] of Dawley House.Alexander Pope describes his friend Bolingbroke, the noble farmer who had engaged a painter for £200 to give the correct agricultural air to his country hall by ornamenting it with trophies of spades, rakes, and prongs.[16] Bolingbroke bought Dawley for £22,000 in 1724, moved there in 1725. With help fromCharles Bridgeman he worked on the 400 acres of park and 20 acres of garden, making aferme ornée, whileJames Gibbs beautified the house.[17] He sold it in 1737, or 1738, for £26,0000 toEdward Stephenson (1691–1768), MP for Sudbury 1734–41, and for two days Governor ofFort William, 1728,[18] who passed it on again soon after 1748;[14]
Dame Lettice Poyntz (died c. 1610), aka Laetitia FitzGerald, niece ofthe fair Geraldine and sister ofGerald FitzGerald, 14th Earl of Kildare, first wifeSir Ambrose Coppinger, of Dawley, (c. 1546 – 1604), MP forLudgershall in 1586. She married secondly John Morice, MP, (1568–1618), aka Sir John Poyntz. She left £100 to the village, eighty pounds of which was later used to purchase six acres of land the income from which was to support good causes in the parish;,[19][20]
Tattersall's stallionGlencoe stood at Dawley in 1835.Shackle's Barn, Harlington, Middlesex, from the west, October 2014.Wheat field beside the M4, once part of Dawley Manor Farm, at Harlington. July 2015. Looking to the south-east.
Founder ofTattersalls,Richard Tattersall (1724–1795), c. 1779 began a stud farm at Dawley (aka Dawley House) which was called Dawley Wall Farm.[21] In the 1830s this was described as '13 miles from London, 3 from Uxbridge, 1 from Hayes and 2 from Cranford Bridge'.[22] Coincidentally, in 1779 Tattersall bought for £2500, for the purpose of breeding,2nd Lord Bolingbroke's unbeatenHighflyer. Operations at Dawley were continued after his death by various other Tattersalls including his son George I (1792–1853), and perhaps grandsonGeorge II (1817–1849):[23] thoroughbred stallionGlencoe (1831–1857) stood at stud there in 1835.Middleton, the 1825Derby winner, was there in 1832.[24] SireSir Hercules was sent there in 1833 andThe Colonel in c. 1837.[22]
Sports impresarioSimon Clegg was born in Harlington;
Former professional footballer and football managerPaul Goddard was born in Harlington;
Rev. CountHenry Jerome de Salis, DD, FRS, third son of theJerome, 2nd Count de Salis, was appointed by his parentsGame keeper of and for their said manor of Dally otherwise Dawley, near Hayes, Middlesex, from 13 June 1775;[26] His mother, the Hon. Mary Fane, later Madame de Salis, and then Countess de Salis (died 1785), had lived for a while in central Harlington in c. 1770, and then his parents seem to have purchased the Dawley Wall estate (now approximatelyStockley Park and more), including Dawley House or its remains, from the heirs of Lord Uxbridge in 1772. Henry Jerome, his daughter, wife, parents, one brother, and nephew were all buried in the family vault in Harlington's churchyard.[27]Peter de Salis (1738-1807) acquired the site of Dawley House in 1797. In 1841 members of the de Salis family (Peter Fane de Salis (1799-1870) and his step-mother and half-brothers) owned together 533 acres in the parish. Most of this lay in the north, in or near the former park, but it also included Dawley Manor Farm, in the High Street,[20] TheGramophone Company (thenElectric and Musical Industries Ltd.) acquired the site of Dawley House from Cecil Fane de Salis for an extension to their works across the road in 1929;[14]
Chelsea (1970s until July 2005),Queens Park Rangers (2005-2023) andWycombe Wanderers (from 2024-)[29] football clubs have used the Imperial College Sports Ground, (aka Harlington Sports Ground), just west of the village in Sipson Lane.
Agreyhound racing track was opened during the 1930s, off the Bath Road. The racing was independent (that is, not affiliated to theNational Greyhound Racing Club, the sport's governing body) and was therefore a flapping track (the nickname given to independent tracks).[30] In 1959 plans for two large hotels, the Skyways (now Sheraton) and the Ariel (now Holiday Inn), to serve Heathrow were revealed, which resulted in the track being demolished: the last meeting was on 22 January 1962. The track stood very near to where the Holiday Inn is today.[31]
Harlington and Harmondsworth, by Philip Sherwood, Tempus, Stroud, 2002;
The History of Dawley (Middlesex), by B.T. White, Hayes and Harlington Local History Society, 2001;
Victorian Harlington, Hayes and Harlington Local History Society, 1985;
De Salis Family : English Branch, by Rachel E. Fane De Salis, Higgs & Co.,Henley-on-Thames, UK, 1934.
Eight Hundred Years of Harlington Parish Church in the County of Middlesex, Herbert Wilson, MA, Rector, Uxbridge, 1909.
An Historical Account of Those Parishes in the County of Middlesex, Which Are Not Described in the Environs of London, by the Rev.Daniel Lysons, London, 1800, pp. 125–135.
^Eight Hundred Years of Harlington Parish Church in the County of Middlesex, Herbert Wilson, MA, Rector, Uxbridge, 1909.
^"Harlington: Churches."A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington. Ed. Susan Reynolds. London: Victoria County History, 1962. 270-273.British History Online.[permanent dead link] Retrieved 14 June 2019.
^A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3, Shepperton, Staines, Stanwell, Sunbury, Teddington, Heston and Isleworth, Twickenham, Cowley, Cranford, West Drayton, Greenford, Hanwell, Harefield and Harlington,Victoria County History, London, 1962.
^The Alexander Pope Encyclopedia, by Pat Rogers, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.
^The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715–1754, edited by Rodney Sedgwick, 1970.
^The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558–1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
^abcdAn Historical Account of Those Parishes in the County of Middlesex, Which Are Not Described in the Environs of London, by the Rev.Daniel Lysons, London, 1800, pp. 125–135.
^He now started a stud farm at Dawley in Middlesex, which, together with his reputation for integrity, became the cornerstone of his large fortune., Thomas Seccombe, DNB, 1898.
^abThe Racing Calendar for the year 1833, by Edward & CharlesWeatherby, London, 1834, p. 561.
^Just outside the parish of Harlington at Goulds Green there was a house which the De Salis renamed Dawley Court, and lived there from 1835 until 1929 when it was sold and then demolished.
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