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===Heston Aerodrome=== {{Main|Heston Aerodrome}} 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/>
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