Yeading

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Yeading
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Yeading
Location within Greater London
Population13,586 (2011 Census. Ward) [1]
OS grid reference TQ115825
London borough
Ceremonial county Greater London
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town HAYES
Postcode district UB4
Dialling code 020
Police Metropolitan
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51°31′49″N0°23′30″W / 51.5303°N 0.3916°W / 51.5303; -0.3916

Yeading ( /ˈjɛdɪŋ/ YED-ing) is a settlement in west London, forming part of the London Borough of Hillingdon, having been developed after the Second World War.

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Etymology

Yeading is very early Saxon and was originally Geddingas or Geddinges, meaning "the people of Geddi". [2]

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]." [3]

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 (demolished in 2009 [7] ), was lit by three cylinders of calor gas. [8] The Yeading Lane estate underwent largescale development in the late 1960s and '70s.

Education

Schools in Yeading include:

Demographics

The largest ethnic group in the Hillingdon ward of Yeading in the 2011 Census was White British with 28.3%. This was followed by Indians (20.3%), Other Asians (11.5%) and Black Africans (8.1%). [10]

56.3% of people living in Yeading were born in England according to the 2011 census. Other popular places of birth included India (10.6%), Sri Lanka (3.2%), Pakistan (2.8%) and Somalia (2.6%). [11]

The most popular religious affiliation in Yeading is Christianity at 37.1%. Other common religious include Islam (18.3%), Sikhism (14.1%), Hinduism (11.8%), and those of no religion (11.3%). [11]

Transport and locale

Buses

A local bus on Yeading Lane London Buses route E9 Yeading Lane.jpg
A local bus on Yeading Lane

Yeading has the following bus routes travelling through it: 90, 120, 140, 282, 696, 697, E6, E9, SL8, and N7, N140.

Library

Yeading Library, Yeading Lane, UB4 0EW.

Churches

Sport and recreation

Football team Hayes & Yeading United F.C. was assembled from the former Hayes F.C. and Yeading F.C. [12]

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.

Yeading on screen

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References

  1. ↑ "Hillingdon Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  2. ↑ Catherine Kelter, Hayes: A Concise History (Hillingdon Borough Libraries, 1988), p. 9.
  3. 1 2 Kelter, Hayes (1988), p. 13.
  4. ↑ Kelter, Hayes (1988), p. 39.
  5. ↑ James Thorne, Handbook to the Environs of London, alphabetically arranged (London, 1876), pp. 334-6.
  6. ↑ Kelter, Hayes (1988), p. 59.
  7. ↑ "Willow Tree, Yeading". whatpub.com.
  8. ↑ Kelter, Hayes (1988), pp. 72-3.
  9. ↑ http://www.barnhill.hillingdon.sch.uk/ Barnhill Community High School
  10. ↑ Good Stuff IT Services. "Yeading - UK Census Data 2011". Ukcensusdata.com. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  11. 1 2 "Yeading Demographics (Hillingdon, England)". Yeading.localstats.co.uk. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
  12. ↑ "Yeading Football Club". Hayes & Yeading Football Club. 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.


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