Editing Northwood, London (section)

===Northwood Hills===
[[File:Lime Close - geograph.org.uk - 89705.jpg|thumb|Early 21st-century houses in Northwood Hills]]
'''Northwood Hills''' includes '''Haste Hill''' and is separated by [[buffer zone|green buffer]]s on almost all sides, though touches [[Eastcote Village]] to the south and had a population of 11,441 in 2008 according to the [[Office for National Statistics]].<ref name=focus>{{cite web |url=http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/media/pdf/4/f/Northwood_Hills_10.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101214035207/http://www.hillingdon.gov.uk/media/pdf/4/f/Northwood_Hills_10.pdf |archive-date=2010-12-14 |url-status=live |title=A focus on Northwood Hills |date=January 2010 |publisher=London Borough of Hillingdon |access-date=23 June 2011}}</ref>

The land on which Northwood Hills, Haste Hill Golf Club and most of Northwood now stand was once the Great [[Common land|Common]] Wood. This covered {{convert|860|acres}} in the 16th century, which residents would use for grazing their livestock and collecting firewood. [[Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury]] achieved [[inclosure]] from Parliament and sold {{convert|568|acres}} of the wood in 1608 for £4000. The remaining woodland became Copse Wood, part of the [[Ruislip Woods]], a national nature reserve.<ref name=os>{{cite web|url=http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=TQ048812|title=OS Maps – online and App mapping system – Ordnance Survey Shop|website=getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref>
<ref>Bowlt 1994, p.23</ref>

Northwood Hills has intermixed in its area the only social housing estates beyond one street of the area;<ref name=focus/> much of its private housing stock was built during the 1930s by the Belton Estates company led by Harry Peachey<ref name="Our town"/> while Harry Neal was responsible for building the shopping parade in Joel Street. Its name was chosen in a competition by a woman from [[North Harrow]] as the land was split between Northwood, North Harrow and Ruislip parishes.<ref name="Around Ruislip">{{cite book |title=Around Ruislip |last=Newbery |first=Maria |author2=Cotton, Carolynne |author3=Packham, Julie Ann |author4= Jones, Gwyn  |year=1996 |publisher=The Chalfont Publishing Company |location=Stroud |isbn=0-7524-0688-4 }}</ref> The first houses were built in Potter Street.<ref name="Around Ruislip"/>

[[File:Northwood Hills, Northwood, HA6.jpg|thumb|The Northwood Hills public house]]
The Namaste Lounge Restaurant (formerly known as Northwood Hills public house and the Northwood Hills Hotel before that) opposite the tube station is accredited as where [[Sir Elton John]] first performed professionally.<ref>{{cite news |title=Elton John 'may visit' Northwood pub this weekend |last=Matti |first=Siba |url=http://www.uxbridgegazette.co.uk/west-london-news/local-uxbridge-news/2010/05/27/elton-john-may-visit-northwood-pub-this-weekend-113046-26534383/ |newspaper=Uxbridge Gazette |date=27 May 2010 |access-date=15 April 2011}}</ref> A picture of the pub appears on one of his album covers.<ref>Bowlt, Eileen. M. (1994) ''Ruislip Past''. London: Historical Publications {{ISBN|0-948667-29-X}}</ref>

Each May one of the largest Scout Jumble sales in the country is held by 1st Northwood on the land next to their headquarters, the Hogs Back.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nescouts.org.uk/1n/|title=1st Northwood Scout Group|website=nescouts.org.uk|access-date=5 April 2018}}</ref>

[[Northwood School (London)|Northwood secondary school]] and [[Sixth Form]] is located in Potter Street (the former name of the school). The [[Olympic Games|Olympic]] boxer [[Audley Harrison]] and ''[[Big Brother (UK)|Big Brother]]'' contestant [[Nikki Grahame]] are [[alumni]] of the school.<ref name="Our town">{{cite web |url=http://www.northwoodhills.co.uk/our_town.html |title=Our town |publisher=Northwood Hills Residents Association |access-date=15 April 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725133937/http://www.northwoodhills.co.uk/our_town.html |archive-date=25 July 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>