Editing Harlington, London (section)

===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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| 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"/>