Editing Ruislip (section)

==Landmarks==

===Village square===
[[File:1907 Ruislip Village - Around Ruislip.jpg|thumb|right|The original Ruislip Village in 1907, looking towards St. Martin's Church with the Duck House to the left.]]
The buildings at the north end of Ruislip High Street, Nos 1 to 15, the Duck House restaurant and the Swan public house, which has since been operated as Cafe Rouge, form the core of the original village and are Grade II listed.<ref name="Hillingdon listed"/> This area formed the village square,<ref>Newbery 1996, p.29</ref> at the junction of the High Street, Bury Street and Eastcote Road. The village water pump was sunk in the centre of the square in 1864, to a depth of {{convert|105|ft}} {{convert|9|in}}, though was moved to be beside the Manor Farm Lodge in the 1970s. It was moved again in 1982 to sit outside 7–15 High Street.<ref>Bowlt 2007, p.150</ref>

===Manor Farm===
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To the north of Ruislip High Street, the {{convert|22|acre}} Manor Farm site incorporates the remains of settlements dating back to the 9th century, as well as buildings including the Great Barn, dated by [[English Heritage]] as having been built around 1280.<ref name="History of Manor Farm">{{cite web|url=http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=22796|title=A history of the Manor Farm site|author=McBean, K. J.|publisher=London Borough of Hillingdon|date=21 March 2011|access-date=13 April 2011|archive-date=18 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318023739/http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=22796|url-status=dead}}</ref> A working farm until the 1930s, the farm was let by [[King's College, Cambridge]], the owners of the land from 1500 to the mid 20th century.<ref>Bowlt 1994, p.16</ref> It has been designated as a local heritage site and was refurbished between 2007 and 2008 with funding from the [[Heritage Lottery Fund]].<ref name="RNELHS"/>

===Ruislip Lido===
[[File:Ruislip Lido - geograph.org.uk - 28051.jpg|thumb|View across Ruislip Lido]]
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Ruislip Lido is a nineteenth century reservoir with an artificial sand beach, surrounded by woodlands through which runs the [[Ruislip Lido Railway]], a miniature 12" [[rail gauge|gauge]] railway with diesel and steam locomotives. The Lido was established as a reservoir to feed the [[Grand Union Canal]] by damming and flooding the lower part of the valley between Park Wood and Copse Wood, including the hamlet of Park Hearn. Work began in 1811; the consulting engineer John Rennie announced completion of the project to the Grand Junction Waterworks Company on 5 December that year.<ref>Bowlt 1994, p.125</ref> Unsuccessful as a canal feeder lake, it was reconstructed as a pleasure resort in 1933.

===Orchard Hotel===
Following the extension of the Metropolitan Railway to Ruislip, and the resulting influx of visitors to the area, Albert Cross built a bungalow from where teas were served to day-trippers. This became a success and Cross had the building expanded, which soon became the Orchard Hotel. Between 1933 and 1971 it became an [[Ansells]] licensed bar and well known high class restaurant. It then became a [[Berni Inn]] then [[Beefeater (restaurant)|Beefeater]] restaurant, which it remains, and was recently extended with a [[Premier Inn]] hotel.<ref name="Newbery 44"/> During the [[Battle of Britain]], the Orchard was very popular with the pilots of [[No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron]] stationed at [[RAF Northolt]], who celebrated many of their successes in battle there. The owner was known to open a bottle of champagne for each German aircraft shot down by the squadron.<ref>Bristow 2005, p.69</ref>