Newyears Green
| Newyears Green | |
| Middlesex | |
|---|---|
 Cottages in Newyears Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ070881 |
| Location: | 51°34’56"N, 0°27’21"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Uxbridge |
| Postcode: | UB9 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Hillingdon |
Newyears Green is that rarest of things – a rural hamlet in Middlesex. It is found in the north-west of the county, in the farmland which fringes the western edge of Middlesex above the valley of the River Colne which marks the border with Buckinghamshire.
The name of the place is assumed to come from that of its main farm, but from where this name comes is unknown. It is found marked on Roque's map of Middlesex as early as 1754.
About the hamlet
The hamlet is to be found along Newyears Green Lane, to the south-east of Harefield, west of Ruislip and north of Ickenham.
This both an isolated place and a busy one. It is a scatter of farms and a few cottages and isolated commercial units at points along a single lane, Newyears Green Lane, with a council tip and transfer stations at one end of the lane, and accompanying this unwelcome neighbour is the largest composting facility of its kind in Europe.[1] The Dog Trust has a facility here, and at the west end of the lane is the entrance to the Hillingdon Outdoor Activities Centre, though the centre itself is a long way off down a narrow lane.
At the east end of the lane, past the end of the hamlet, sit the outermost edges of Ruislip and the great conurbation. The preparatory workings for the new HS2 railway line loom to the south, as yet unencroaching.
Newyears Green itself, such as it is, remains alone with fields and farms still around it, crossed by footpaths.
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