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==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 of Mercia|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]."<ref name="Geddinges">Kelter, ''Hayes'' (1988), p. 13.</ref>

[[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] settlement in Yeading therefore seems probable, but the history of Yeading in subsequent centuries is not as clear as that of [[Hayes, Hillingdon|Hayes]]. Details including the names of many Yeading [[Manorialism|manor]] holders remain unknown.<ref name="Geddinges"/>

Yeading Dock was one of many canal 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 [[Brickworks|brickmaking]], and the canal provided a reliable way of transporting large numbers of bricks. Yeading's brickworkers were known to keep pigs as a second source of income. A [[bourgeois]] writer, Elizabeth Hunt, wrote in 1861 that in "Yeading dirt, ignorance and darkness reign supreme."<ref name="Brickmaking">Kelter, ''Hayes'' (1988), p. 39.</ref> In 1874, however, James Thorne wrote that the inhabitants of Yeading were "always found civil".<ref name="Civil">James Thorne, ''Handbook to the Environs of London, alphabetically arranged'' (London, 1876), pp. 334-6.</ref>

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 and Harlington railway station|Hayes]] with the L.N.E.R. line at  [[Northolt tube station|Northolt]]. Yeading was still mainly a rural area.<ref name="Lane">Kelter, ''Hayes'' (1988), p. 59.</ref>

After the [[Second World War]], a large [[Prefabricated home|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),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whatpub.com/pubs/MDX/16944/willow-tree-yeading|title=Willow Tree, Yeading|website=whatpub.com}}</ref> was lit by three cylinders of [[calor gas]].<ref name="Prefab">Kelter, ''Hayes'' (1988), pp. 72-3.</ref> The Yeading Lane estate underwent largescale development in the late 1960s and 1970s.