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Dist:0.2km<br/>A typical mid-C20th Watney's pub, originally called the Cherry Tree, named after the cherry orchards upon which the large council housing estate was built to the east of here. It was revamped some years ago and renamed, once again losing a historically relevant pub name.
©Rod Allday
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©Oast House Archive
Dist:0.3km<br/>Junction of North Road and Porters Way looking north east.
©Ray Stanton
Dist:0.3km<br/>The Gatehouse and some associated walls are all that remains of West Drayton Manor, which was owned by William Paget, an ambassador and courtier of both King Henry VIII and King Edward VI. The manor house itself was demolished around 1750 and the gatehouse has been substantially rebuilt on several occasions. The gatehouse featured prominently on the shield of the coat of arms of the former Yiewsley and West Drayton Urban District Council which was incorporated into the London Borough of Hillingdon in 1965.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.3km<br/>The early C16th gatehouse to the former manor house of the Paget family (demolished in 1750). Grade II* listed http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=202727&mode=adv.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.3km<br/>Situated just across the road from West Drayton cemetery, this establishment has been producing headstones since 1930.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.3km<br/>The church mainly dates from the 15th century with some 12th and 13th century fragments. It is mostly built of flint rubble, although the three-stage west tower has quoins of alternating brick and stone. There is a small newel turret on the north side of the tower, probably at the top of a staircase that gives access to the different levels of the tower including the roof. Architecturally these staircases gave strength to large towers, particularly one such as this which had not got any supporting buttresses. The newel turret has a wooden cupola on top. The churchyard is enclosed inside the walls of the former Drayton manor house. This view was taken from the north-western corner of the churchyard late on a winter's afternoon. The roof of the building to the left shows where the sun's rays reached and melted the frost and where the frost stayed in the shade all day.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.4km<br/>West Drayton parish church, dating from the C13th. Grade II* listed http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/Details/Default.aspx?id=202724&mode=adv.
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.4km<br/>Although on the face of it this appears to be nothing more than a straight path through a park, it was at one time the main route from the south to the former West Drayton Manor, Drayton Hall and St Martin's Church.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>[[809259]] seen from the other side, with the black arch of a pipebridge in front of it. On the left are units on Horton Road Industrial Estate.
©Derek Harper
Dist:0.5km<br/>The view in the opposite direction to [[206204]] with West Drayton railway station visible in the distance.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.5km<br/>Erected by the Urban District Council of Yiewsley & West Drayton, the local authority prior to the creation of Hillingdon Borough Council in the 1970s. This simple memorial bears the words 'To the fallen 1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945 Lest we forget' and Laurence Binyon's famous poem. It also bears the crest of the Royal British Legion and of the old council, which includes on its crest the Old Gatehouse [[1754123]].
©Rod Allday
Dist:0.5km<br/>Viewed from Horton Bridge, the grey building with orange trim belongs to John Guest.
©Nigel Cox
Dist:0.6km<br/>Mid-1930s post office designed by Frederick Allen Llewellyn. For images of other post offices certainly designed the same architect, an employee of the Office of Works see [[2612664]] [[2663710]] [[2106609]] [[2618432]] I wonder, also, whether he may also be responsible for [[2317443]] [[2317416]] [[2708076]]
©Julian Osley
Dist:0.6km<br/>Viewed looking towards London Paddington from the footbridge over the railway between Horton Bridge Road and Kingston Lane, with the Grand Union Canal just visible over the tops of the buildings to the left.
©Nigel Cox

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