Editing Harmondsworth (section)

==Government==
===Local government===
* 1894: Rural districts brought in. Harmondsworth civil parish, created in the 1870s was put in [[Staines Rural District]].
* 1930: Harmondsworth civil parish was transferred to [[Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District]].
* 1949: Harmondsworth civil parish was merged with Yiewsley and West Drayton.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10102157&c_id=10001043 | title=Harmondsworth CP/AP Middlesex through time – Administrative history of Parish-level Unit: hierarchies, boundaries | work=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]] | publisher=[[University of Portsmouth]] & others | year=2008 | access-date=2009-01-18 }}</ref>
* 1965: [[Middlesex]] county was abolished. Yiewsley and West Drayton was transferred to the [[London Borough of Hillingdon]], in [[Greater London]].
* Harmondsworth forms a minority of the [[Heathrow Villages]] [[Wards of the United Kingdom|ward]] (2008-date), which elects three councillors to Hillingdon London Borough Council and had a population of 12,199 in 2011.<ref name=ons01>[http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030211201309/http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/ |date=11 February 2003 }} [[United Kingdom Census 2011]] ''[[Office for National Statistics]]'' Retrieved 31 October 2014</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=10031 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802060447/http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/index.jsp?articleid=10031 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-08-02 | title=Heathrow Villages ward | publisher=[[London Borough of Hillingdon]] | date=2009-01-14 | access-date=2009-01-18 }}</ref>

===United Kingdom government===
There are two [[UK Border Agency]] immigration removal centres in Harmondsworth: [[Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre]] and [[Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre]].<ref>"[http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/immigrationremovalcentres/colnbrook Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080905122608/http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/immigrationremovalcentres/colnbrook |date=5 September 2008 }}." [[UK Visas and Immigration]]. Retrieved 13 February 2010.</ref><ref>"[http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/immigrationremovalcentres/harmondsworth Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211023713/http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/immigrationremovalcentres/harmondsworth |date=11 December 2008 }}." [[UK Border Agency]]. Retrieved 13 February 2010.</ref>

[[File:Elevation and Plan of Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital.jpg|thumb|upright|left|[[Harlington, Harmondsworth and Cranford Cottage Hospital]], founded 1884.]]