Yeading

Yeading
Yeading Library
Yeading  Yeading shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ115825
London borough	Hillingdon
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	HAYES
Postcode district	UB4
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Hayes and Harlington
London Assembly	Ealing and Hillingdon
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Yeading (/ˈjɛdɪŋ/ YED-ing) is an area in London. It forms part of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Etymology

Yeading is very early Saxon and was originally Geddingas or Geddinges, meaning "the people of Geddi".

History

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]."

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.

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." In 1874, however, one James Thorne wrote that the inhabitants of Yeading were "always found civil".

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.

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. The Yeading Lane estate underwent largescale development in the late 1960s and '70s.

Education

Schools in Yeading include:

• Barnhill Community High School
• Yeading Infant and Nursery School
• Yeading Junior School

Transport and locale

Buses

Yeading has the following bus routes travelling through it: 90, 140, 696, E6 and E9.

Library

Yeading Library, Yeading Lane, UB4 0EW.

Churches

• St Edmund of Canterbury, Edmunds Close, UB4 0HA
• St Nicholas, Raynton Drive, UB4 8BG
• St Raphael Catholic Church, Ayles Road, off Kingshill Avenue, UB4 9JP
• Grange Park Baptists, 217 Lansbury Drive, UB4 8RS

Public houses

Pubs in Yeading include:

• The White Hart, White Hart Roundabout, UB5 5AX
• The Walnut Tree, 115 Willow Tree Lane, UB4 9BL
• The Industry, 171 Yeading Lane, UB4 0ES

Sport and recreation

Football team Hayes & Yeading United F.C. was assembled from the former Hayes F.C. and Yeading F.C.

Yeading's parks and greens provide plenty of opportunity for children to play. There are three Local Nature Reserves, Yeading Brook Meadows, Ten Acre Wood and Gutteridge Wood and Meadows.

A community radio station, 91.8 Hayes FM, serves Yeading.

Notable people

• Greg Dyke, former Director-General of the BBC, attended Yeading Primary School

Yeading on screen

• Yeading F.C.'s erstwhile ground, known as the Warren, was used to film scenes from the Keira Knightley film Bend It Like Beckham (2002). Yeading's commercial manager Bill Perryman was given a part in the film.
• Yeading F.C.'s former ground was also used to film scenes from the Vinnie Jones film Mean Machine (2001).
• Location footage for British soap opera Family Affairs (1997-2005) was mostly shot in West London; the Lock and its surrounding areas were filmed at Willowtree Marina.

Nearest places

• Hayes                    
• Ealing                    
• Greenford                    

• Hanwell
• Northolt
• Southall

External links

• Yeading Library
• Hayes FM community radio
• West London Shooting School
• T. F. T. Baker et al (eds.), A History of the County of Middlesex, vol. 4.