Editing Sipson (section)

===Businesses===
[[File:Plough, Sipson, UB7 (9468011398).jpg|thumb|The Plough public house]]
[[File:Indian restaurant, Sipson - geograph.org.uk - 5793067.jpg|thumb|Zayani Indian restaurant, formerly The Crown public house]]
====Sipson Farm====
Sipson Farm was in the northeast angle of the Sipson crossroads, and was the biggest farm in the area. It had a large area of greenhouses, and 500 acres of land in [[Harmondsworth]], Sipson, [[Harlington, London|Harlington]] and [[Heathrow (hamlet)|Heathrow]]. In 1900 it had a substantial fruit orchard.

*1819: [[Enclosure]] of [[Harmondsworth]] parish
**''And see [[Heathrow (hamlet)#19th century]].''
*1842: Thomas Wild was born.
*Late 19th century: Sipson Farm was run by Thomas Wild & Son.
*1898: Thomas Wild took on [[Rowland Richard Robbins]] as [[junior partner]] and the firm became Wild & Robbins.
*1900 to 1948: Robbins lived in a house called Hollycroft, where Hollycroft Close is now.<ref>Sherwood, 2012, p58.</ref>
*c.1910: Wild and Robbins gave some land in Sipson, for [[tennis court]]s and a [[children's playground]].<ref>Sherwood, 2012, p61.</ref>
*1932: Thomas Wild died and was succeeded by his son, Thomas Wild the younger.
*6 April 1938: Wild & Robbins was wound up "for reconstruction".<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34501/pages/2477/page.pdf ''London Gazette'']</ref>
*1944. The [[Heathrow Airport]] scheme started. Sipson Farm lost all or most of its land that was south of the [[Bath Road]].
*31 March 1949: Robbins left the partnership by mutual agreement, but the firm's name remained Wild & Robbins.<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/38582/supplements/1793/page.pdf ''London Gazette'']</ref> Sipson Farm was now run by Thomas Wild and his son Thomas Wild III.
*1965: The [[M4 motorway]] was opened past Sipson. Its course and the Heathrow Airport slip road and its junction took much of Sipson Farm's remaining land. After this, the farm struggled to keep running.
*1970: Sipson Farm shut down. Some of its remaining land was left to fall back to wild overgrown vegetation.
*Early 1980s: The farm buildings were demolished and replaced by a residential road, Russell Gardens. The entry to the farm became the entry to 335 Sipson Road.
*23 December 1987: It was agreed that Sipson Farm Estates Ltd. should be [[liquidation|wound up]].<ref>[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/51197/pages/370 ''London Gazette'']</ref><ref>Sherwood, 2011, p59.</ref><ref>Sherwood, 2012, p3.</ref>

====Wall Garden Farm====
Wall Garden Farm is a little east of the Sipson crossroads, north of the road to Harlington. It was [[orchard]] land, surrounded and divided by high walls to keep winds and frost (and fruit thieves) off.
*Early 1900s: ''See [[Heathrow (hamlet)#20th century]] for events involving Jonathan Smith.'' Jonathan Smith went [[bankrupt]] and moved from Heathrow Hall to Wall Garden Farm. Later he came to an arrangement with his creditors and the bankruptcy was [[Bankruptcy discharge|discharged]]. He set up a [[jam]] factory to use the abundant fruit grown in the area. His son Frederick ran the jam factory after him. Kenwood Close (a street in Sipson) is where the jam factory was.<ref>Sherwood, 2011, p61.</ref>
*1970: By now most of Wall Garden Farm's trees had been grubbed out.
*2004: Wall Garden Farm was being used for off-airport [[car park]]ing for Heathrow Airport.

====King William IV pub====
The [[King William IV]] [[public house]] at the Sipson crossroads was built in the 16th century, and later altered, including a refronting in the 1930s. Originally a [[Wealden hall house|Wealden-type]] mediaeval [[hall house]], it is a [[Grade II listed building]].<ref>Sherwood, 2011, p62.</ref>

====Excavating gravel====
Gravel companies own much land in Harmondsworth and Sipson and Harlington. They get planning permission to extract gravel and sand on condition that they restore the land for [[agriculture]] afterwards. Their land is used for growing [[wheat]] before and after gravel extracting.<ref>Sherwood, 2012, p96.</ref>