Harmondsworth
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| Harmondsworth | |
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| OS grid reference | |
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| London borough | Hillingdon |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | London |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | WEST DRAYTON |
| Postcode district | UB7 |
| Dial code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| London Assembly | Ealing and Hillingdon |
| European Parliament | London |
| List of places: UK • England • London | |
Harmondsworth is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon nearby to London Heathrow Airport.
Harmondsworth is also the name of a UKDS run detention centre/refugee camp there for deportations from the airport and one nextdoor to that called Colnbrook.
If BAA plc are granted permission to build a third runway at Heathrow, much of Harmondsworth will have to be demolished.
British Airways headquarters are here at their Waterside building set in a large public park.
For many years the publisher, Penguin Books, was based here.
Its name came from Anglo-Saxon Heremōdes worþ = "Heremōd's enclosure".
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Nearest railway station:
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