Editing Harlington, London (section)

==History==
[[File:DawleyHouseLysonVariantPrint.jpg|thumb|[[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke|Bolingbroke]] and [[John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston|Ossulston's]] ''Dawley House (demolished)'', north-west of the station]]
[[File:Photograph of Dawley House, Harlington, Middlesex, in the spring of 1902.jpg|thumbnail|Photograph of Dawley House, in the spring of 1902. This was the remains of the house of [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke|Bolingbroke]] and [[John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston|Ossulston.]]]]
[[File:Dawley House & barns, Harlington, Middlesex, 1902.jpg|thumbnail|Photograph of dilapidated Dawley House and barns, Harlington, 1902. (Between the Great Western Railway and the canal). Home of [[Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke|Bolingbroke]] and [[John Bennet, 1st Baron Ossulston|Ossulston.]]]]
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The earliest surviving mention of Harlington appears to be in a 9th-century charter in which land at Botwell in [[Hayes, Hillingdon|Hayes]] was said to be bounded on the west by "Hygeredington" and "Lullinges" tree. The first of these must be Harlington; the second has not been identified.
The boundary between Hayes and Harlington, which may thus have been defined by the date of this charter, was later marked by North Hyde Road and Dawley Road, but Dawley Road may not have followed the boundary before the 18th century.<ref name="History">[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22360 Susan Reynolds (ed.), ''A History of the County of Middlesex'', vol. 3 (1962)]</ref>

===Administrative history===
By 1834 the [[select vestry]] (informally known simply as the vestry) employed a paid assistant overseer.  In 1824 a surgeon for the poor of Cranford and Harlington was appointed by the vestries of both.  Their later co-operation saw the establishment of Harlington's National School jointly with in 1848, and its cottage hospital jointly with Cranford and Harmondsworth in 1884.
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!Dates!! colspan=3 |Entities
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| c. 1840|| rowspan=5 |Harlington Parish then Civil Parish||style="background: #888;"| || style="background: #888;"| 
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| 1872||rowspan=2 |Staines Rural Sanitary District||style="background: #888;"| 
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| 1889||rowspan=3 |[[Middlesex County Council]]
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| 1894 ||[[Staines Rural District]]
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| 1930 ||[[Hayes and Harlington Urban District]]
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|1965||style="background: #888;"| ||[[London Borough of Hillingdon]]||Hillingdon L.B. with [[Mayor of London]], [[London Assembly]] and predecessor<ref>[http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1802/units History of Harlington: Units and Statistics] A vision of Britain through time.  The University of Portsmouth and others. Accessed 2015-08-31.</ref>
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In 1924 the civil parish council (CPC) asked Staines Rural District Council (RDC) to light the village street and this was done a year later. The cemetery in Cherry Lane was opened in 1936 by the UDC and the CPC started its first allotments in 1895, but they rejected proposals to acquire a recreation ground or parish hall.
See the entry for [[Hayes, Hillingdon|Hayes]] for the later detailed local history.<ref name="History"/>

===Sanitation===
The chief task from 1872 for local government was the making of sewers in villages beyond a handful of homes such as this. Sewerage had been discussed in the vestry as long ago as 1864.  The increase of population in the 20th century, growing preference for [[flush toilet]]s and prohibitions on ground water contamination made the need for proper sanitation more urgent. In 1912, for instance, there were said to have been eleven cases of [[typhoid]] near the 'White Hart', and there was an outbreak of [[diphtheria]] in 1916.

During the 1920s the RDC made plans for constructing sewers, and the relative cost of their scheme and of schemes proposed by Hayes Urban District Council largely influenced the parish council's views on local government reorganisation. In the end the council seem to have acquiesced peacefully in the amalgamation with Hayes that took place in 1930, only on the grounds that this seemed to provide the best and cheapest chance of sewers being constructed soon. A sewerage scheme for the parish was completed by Hayes and Harlington Urban District Council in 1934.<ref name="History"/>