12 Facts About Yiewsley

Yiewsley is a large suburban village in the London Borough of Hillingdon, England, 2 miles south of Uxbridge, the borough's commercial and administrative centre.

Yiewsley was a chapelry in the ancient parish of Hillingdon, Middlesex.

The earliest written record of Yiewsley is from 1235 where it is shown as Wiuesleg in Assize Rolls.

The first person to start collecting artifacts from Yiewsley was John Allen Brown a Fellow of the Geological Society who collected between 1889 and 1901.

The majority of its existence Yiewsley was a hamlet in the Parish of St John the Baptist Church, Hillingdon, with a tenurial relationship with Colham Manor.

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The first record of the sale of significant numbers of bricks in Yiewsley is shown in the Public Ledger and Daily Advertiser of the 24 March 1809, advertising an auction of upwards of one million bricks owned by W M Pope situated at a site adjoining the canal.

Yiewsley changed its name to the Drayton Regulator and Instrument Company in 1926.

Yiewsley today is a growing community with both residential housing and commercial businesses.

Yiewsley has an active High Street with national retail outlets Tesco, Wilko, Iceland and Aldi situated on or adjacent to it.

Together with local businesses in Yiewsley and Uxbridge, Heathrow airport is a major source of employment in the area.

Until the mid-19th century, Yiewsley was a district of the parish of St John the Baptist church, Hillingdon.

Yiewsley is served by the nearby M4 and M25 motorways which lie a little over a mile to its south and west respectively.