Denham, Buckinghamshire

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Area 16.02 km (6.19 sq mi) OS grid reference TQ0486 District South Bucks Shire county Buckinghamshire		Population 7,139 (2011 census) Civil parish Denham Country England Local time Monday 2:55 PM

Weather 9°C, Wind W at 21 km/h, 52% Humidity Points of interest Colne Valley regional, Northmoor Hill Wood, Uxbridge Alderglade

Denham is a village and civil parish in the South Bucks district of Buckinghamshire, England. It is north west of Uxbridge and north of junction 1 of the M40 motorway. Denham contains the Buckinghamshire Golf Club.

Map of Denham, UK

Origin

The village name is derived from the Old English for "homestead in a valley". It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Deneham.

Buildings

The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary has a flint and stone Norman tower and Tudor monuments. The tree-lined Village Road includes several old red brick houses with mature Wisteria on them, and has been used as a location in British films and television.

Southlands Manor is a Grade II listed building. Its entry on the English Heritage website states that it was built in the 16th century, with a variety of later changes including the addition of four chimney stacks in the early 17th-century. Analysis of a sample of timbers from the main building and its associated barn have found that they were felled in the winters of 1472/3 and 1473/4, indicating that the relevant parts of the building were erected in 1474 or soon after.

Denham Film Studios were near the village.

Development

Housing growth has over the years created new parts to Denham. Modern-day Denham consists of:

Denham Village, as above; the original settlement

Denham Garden Village, the north of Denham Green Lane - built in the 1950s, renovated in 2006.

Denham Green grew up around the shops beside the railway station. Alexander Korda's Denham Film Studios (now demolished) used the Broadwater (Business) Park land between the junction of the road to Rickmansworth (A412) and Moor Hall Road towards Harefield.

New Denham is a linear part on the old Oxford Road north-west of Uxbridge, west of the Grand Union Canal

Higher Denham is a locality on the site of a First World War army training and transit camp, placed to take advantage of the adjacent Denham Golf Club station. After the War, the camp land was sold off piecemeal for housing, following a similar trend all over Metro-land. Martin-Baker Aircraft Ltd, manufacturers of aircraft ejector seats, have a small factory in Higher Denham

Tatling End, Denham is on the Oxford Road, west of the junction with the A412, at the top of the hill leading out of the Misbourne valley.

Transport

Denham railway station has direct services to London Marylebone and High Wycombe and limited services to Princes Risborough, Aylesbury and Banbury. Connecting services link to Birmingham Snow Hill, Stratford-on-Avon and Kidderminster.

The 331 bus service between Uxbridge and Ruislip stations (operated by Metroline West for London Buses) calls at the Station Parade shops in Denham Green. The 724 Green Line bus service between Harlow and Heathrow passes through Denham Green to Uxbridge and onwards to Heathrow Airport, terminating at the Bus Station at Heathrow Central. The 581 circular bus service provides a link between the various areas of Denham and Uxbridge bus station. The Saturdays-only 582 service links the various Denhams with Iver, Slough and Windsor. The R21 bus service between Uxbridge and Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood stops twice daily at Denham Station every day except Sunday. This service is run by Red Rose Travel and forms part of a more regular service between Northwood and Maple Cross.

Denham Aerodrome was established during the 1930s and is sited on higher land to the north of the village. It is the base of many private and executive aircraft and helicopters and has several hangars and a hard runway.

Economy

InterContinental Hotels Group has its corporate headquarters and European head office in Denham.

Schools

Denham Village Infant School, in Cheapside Lane, was the original school for Denham, and has classes for Reception and Years 1 and 2 . The school building dates from 1832 and is listed.

Denham Green E-ACT Primary Academy is located on Nightingale Way, Denham Green. The academy opened in September 2013, replacing the former Tilehouse Combined School, and is for children from ages 4–11 and also offers pre-school services. The school's current leadership team completed an Ofsted inspection shortly before converting to an Academy. Ofsted noted that the school was a Good school with Outstanding features. The academy accepts all children from the Denham area (including Denham Village, Denham Green, Maple Cross, Harefield and North Uxbridge) who wish to attend the school.

Boundaries

The current eastern boundary with the London Borough of Hillingdon is the Grand Union Canal, a Boundary Commission proposal to avoid malapportionment to reassign to Hillingdon the area of Denham east of the A412 and south of the A40/M40 was abandoned after local consultation.

Twinning

Denham is twinned with Denham in Shark Bay, Western Australia.

Notable residents

Raymond Baxter, BBC Television presenter, lived in Denham until 1978.

Cilla Black, singer, entertainer and television personality had her main residence in Denham Green, bought with her late husband Bobbie in the 1970s. In a burglary in 2002 £1 million worth of gems were stolen.

Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet was born at Denham Court.

Brian Connolly, lead singer with 1970s glam rock band Sweet, lived at Denham until his death in 1997.

Jess Conrad, actor and singer, lived in Denham.

Paul Daniels, magician, lived in Denham.

Rosemarie Ford, stage actor and British television game show presenter.

Robert Lindsay, actor, lives in Denham.

Sir John Mills, film actor, was a resident of the village for many years, and is commemorated by a blue plaque on Hills House, his former residence by the church.

Roger Moore, actor, lived in Sherwood House, Tilehouse Road, Denham.

Mike Oldfield, musician, lived in Tilehouse Lane, Denham 1979-86.

Shane Ritchie, actor, who plays Alfie Moon on BBC Television's EastEnders, used to live at Baker's Wood, Denham.

Cyril Davies, British Blues musician and co-Founder of the influential London Blues and Barrelhouse Club in 1955 with Alexis Korner, was born at St Mildred's, 15 Hawthorn Drive, Willowbank, Denham.

Ken Barrie, who died there in 2016.

References

Denham, Buckinghamshire Wikipedia

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