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==History==
The village of Heston is north of [[Hounslow]], and has been settled since [[Anglo-Saxon England|Saxon times]]. It is first recorded as having a priest in the 7th century, though the present [[St Leonard's Church, Heston|Anglican parish church]] dates to the 14th century. A charter of [[Henry II of England|Henry II]] gives the name as Hestune, meaning "enclosed settlement", which is justified by its location in what was the Warren of [[Staines-upon-Thames|Staines]], between the ancient [[Roman road]] to [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]], and the Uxbridge Road to [[Oxford]]. Another suggested etymology is [[Anglo-Saxon language|Anglo-Saxon]] ''Hǣs-tūn'' = "[[wikt:brushwood|brushwood]] farm or settlement".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://kepn.nottingham.ac.uk/map/place/Middlesex/Heston|title=Key to English Place-names|website=Kepn.nottingham.ac.uk|access-date=3 July 2022}}</ref>

Before 1229, Heston was part of the parish of Gistleworth ([[Isleworth]]) before being taken by [[Henry III of England|Henry III]], who subsequently granted it to the [[Earl of Cornwall]]. It covered until the late 19th-century creation of Hounslow from outlying parts of two adjoining parishes, {{convert|3,823|acres|km2}}.<ref name=r>{{cite web |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22270 |title=Heston and Isleworth: Introduction |editor=Susan Reynolds  |publisher=Institute of Historical Research |date=1962 |work=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 3 |access-date=24 December 2013 }}</ref> The close association pre-dates the town of Hounslow, when that was simply [[Hounslow Priory]], the two parishes had long been associated: the medieval manor of Isleworth covered all of that parish and this.  After Henry III died in 1316, Heston was owned by the [[The Crown|Crown]], and later by the wardens of [[St Giles' Hospital]], until it was surrendered to [[Henry VIII of England|Henry VIII]] during the [[Dissolution of the Monasteries]]. [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]] granted Heston to Sir [[Thomas Gresham]], and, after eating some bread made from locally grown wheat, insisted on a supply for her own personal use.
[[File:Heston Village Hall.jpeg|thumb|right|Heston Village Hall]]
[[Image:The War Memorial in Heston near St Leonards Church - panoramio.jpg|thumb|Heston War Memorial]]

The separation from Isleworth in the 14th century gave the locals a sense of independence from the inhabitants and [[feudal system|feudal lords]] of Isleworth, with whom they frequently quarrelled. The practice of "[[beating the bounds]]" was practised annually when the inhabitants went in procession around the parish boundaries, to show locals the extent of their lands. A contemporary account of such a procession describes an occasion when the parishioners of Heston came across some from Isleworth, and the ensuing "quarrel" saw men from Heston throwing the others across a ditch.

A single board of health for the parishes mentioned was formed in 1875 and a very large [[civil parishes in England|civil parish]] in 1927.<ref name=r/>  The [[A4 road (England)|Great West Road]] was completed in 1925, forming the southern border with [[Hounslow]] and the farming and market garden land around the village was snapped up for industry and housing developments.<ref name=Sherwood/> The southern part of Heston up to the Great West Road, Sutton (also known as 'The Deans'),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/Heston|website=Genuki.og.uk|title=Heston, Middlesex}}</ref> was previously a small hamlet subsequently built up as part of the suburb;<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://forebears.io/england/middlesex/heston/sutton|title=Sutton History & Genealogy Resources, Heston, Isleworth Hundred|website=Forebears.io|access-date=3 July 2022}}</ref> this name appearing in some road names and other local features. A [[Our Lady Queen of Apostles Church, Heston|Roman Catholic parish church]] was also built for Heston in the 20th century.<ref>London 3: North West, Bridget Cherry, Nikolaus Pevsner, 2002, p. 424</ref><ref name=stock>[[English Heritage]], [https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/heston-our-lady-queen-of-the-apostles/ Heston - Our Lady Queen of the Apostles] from ''Taking Stock'', retrieved 9 February 2021</ref>

===Heston Aerodrome===
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Heston Aerodrome was operational between 1929 and 1947. In September 1938, the British Prime Minister, [[Neville Chamberlain]], flew from Heston to Germany three times in two weeks for talks with [[Adolf Hitler]], and he returned to Heston from the [[Munich Agreement|Munich Conference]] with the paper referred to in his later "[[Peace for our time]]" speech from [[10 Downing Street]].<ref name=Sherwood>Sherwood (1999)</ref>

Housing and industrial estates have been built on some of the area that was Heston Aerodrome, and the M4 motorway with its large service area ([[Heston services]]) cuts across the former aerodrome site east–west, but a substantial area to the north of the M4 is host to the Airlinks 18-hole golf course. Many of the roads in the area have aviation-related names: Alcock Road ([[Alcock and Brown]]), Brabazon Road ([[John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara|Lord Brabazon]]), Bleriot Road ([[Louis Blériot]]), Cobham Road (Sir [[Alan Cobham]]), De Havilland Road ([[Geoffrey de Havilland]]), Norman Crescent ([[Nigel Norman]]), Phoenix Way ([[Heston Phoenix]]), Sopwith Road ([[Thomas Sopwith]]), Spitfire Way ([[Supermarine Spitfire]]), Whittle Road ([[Frank Whittle]]), and Wright Road (the [[Wright brothers]]).<ref name=Sherwood/>