Editing Heathrow (hamlet) (section)

===Founding and early history===
A sizeable [[Neolithic]] settlement is believed to have been in the Heathrow area.  Many [[artifact (archaeology)|artefact]]s have been found in the gravel around what is now the airport, and the [[Colne Valley regional park]].<ref>Cotton, Mills & Clegg 1986, p. 34</ref> Waste pits filled with struck [[flint]], arrowheads and fragments of pottery were also found in the area, indicating a settlement, though none other remains of such a settlement.<ref>Cotton, Mills & Clegg 1986, p. 36</ref>

Heathrow was one of the last settlements formed in the parish of [[Harmondsworth]].<ref name="ps1993">{{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=P. T. |title=The History of Heathrow |date=1993 |publisher=Hillingdon Libraries |location=Uxbridge |isbn=0-907869-27-0 |edition=Rev.}}</ref>{{rp|16}}<ref name="ps2009">{{cite book |last1=Sherwood |first1=P. T. |title=Heathrow : 2000 years of history |date=1999 |publisher=Sutton |location=Stroud |isbn=978-0750921329 |edition=[New]}}</ref>{{rp|19}}<ref name=BBC>{{cite news |title=The Lost Villages Around Heathrow |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7831231.stm |newspaper=BBC News |date=15 January 2009 |access-date=18 January 2009}}. The page includes an image of a [[half-timbered]] cottage in Heathrow village.</ref> Its name was rendered in various orthographies which reflect approximately the same pronunciation as today ''La Hetherewe'' (about year 1410, first known mention), ''Hithero'', ''Hetherow'', ''Hetherowfeyld'', ''Hitherowe'', and ''Heath Row/Heathrow'', [[Middle English]] spellings of "heath row" (simply a row (impliedly of houses) on or by a [[heath (habitat)|heath]]). Old maps show Heathrow as a row of houses along the northwest sides of the curve of a lane occasionally named Heathrow Road or Lane, which faced land until 1819 part of a great set of [[common land]]s belonging to neighbouring parishes — [[Hounslow Heath]]. The first orthography as "Heathrow" dates to 1453.<ref name="ps2009"/><ref name="ps1993"/>

====Sipson Green earthworks====
Certain [[Ordnance Survey]] maps before the Second World War, closer to Sipson Green and the adjoining Harlington Corner (localities of the Bath Road), show an earthwork, 300 metres due south of where New Road, Harlington meets the [[Bath Road]], that had been excavated in 1723 by order of William Stukeley. He believed it to have been a Roman settlement, and named it "Caesar's Camp".<ref>Cotton, Mills & Clegg 1986, p. 12</ref><ref name=os25inch/>