Eastcote

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Template:Infobox London place Eastcote is a place in the London Borough of Hillingdon. The 2001 UK census gave the population of the Eastcote and South Ruislip Ward as 11,480.

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Culture and Entertainment

Eastcote is home to several pubs such as The Mannor on Field End Road and Venue 5 (formally The Clay Pidgeon). For live music and clubs the adjacent tube station connects to Harrow, Uxbridge and Central London easily. It is also home to many parks and open spaces and close to Queensmead sports centre.

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History

Formerly home of an American Air Force Base and elementary school. Eastcote is also home to the historical dovecot and coach house to the now demolished Elizabethan Eastcote House. Eastcote House was home to the Hawtrey family, and its most famous resident was Lady Bankes, who resisted soldiers in the Civil War from taking Corfe Castle, Dorset.

In the same place is also a walled garden which is believed to be of the same age. Similarly Haydon Hall, another grand manor house from the area was pulled down in the 1960s.The tube line came to Eastcote in 1904, and now both the Piccadilly and Metropolitan lines run through Eastcote.

In 1961 a couple who were living in Eastcote were arrested in an MI5 raid on their home, in Cranley Drive. The had claimed to be Peter and Helen Kroger, but were in fact an American couple Morris and Lona Cohen. They were responsible for sending information to Russia about British naval activities. When their home and garden were examined, equipment including transmitters, codes and radios and other KGB items were found. They were both sentenced to 20 years imprisonment for spying, but were later exchanged for a British spy.

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