Ruislip

Ruislip is an area in West London, England, that's a part of the London Borough of Hillingdon. It is an historic ecclesiastical parish in Greater London which lay inside the ancient county of Middlesex. The parish appears in Domesday Book, some of the earliest settlements nonetheless exist these days, specific as neighborhood heritage sites. The parish church, St Martin's, dates lower back to the 13th century and stays in use. The homes at the northern cease of Ruislip High Street form the center of the unique village rectangular and are actually Grade II indexed.

It at the beginning featured a critical water pump which become moved out of the road inside the Nineteen Seventies due to increased site visitors. The expansion of the Metropolitan Railway in the early 20th century acted as a catalyst for development in the area. A station turned into opened in Ruislip in 1904 and the parish council created a brand new city district to cope with the forthcoming populace boom. The Ruislip-Northwood Urban District persevered till 1965 whilst Ruislip became a part of the newly hooked up London Borough of Hillingdon. Between 1911 and 1961, Ruislip-Northwood skilled a huge upward push in populace, from 6,217 to 72,791, largely attributed to the extension of the railway.