Harefield is a village in the London Borough of Hillingdon in northwest London, England.

The area is famous for its local hospital, Harefield Hospital, where pioneering heart surgery techniques were developed.

Harefield Hospital is a world-famous heart and lung hospital.

It is part of the Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK, and among the largest in Europe.

St Mary's Parish Church ( in Countess Close, off Church Hill ) is Harefield's oldest building and an important focal point for the Harefield community.

A priest is first mentioned in the manor of Harefield in the Domesday Book ( 1086 ).

In 1959 the land was redeveloped and is now the Harefield Place Golf Club.

The School is set in the village of Harefield on the edge of the Green Belt and is adjacent to the commencement of agricultural land.

The Harefield Academy project is part of the Government's Academies initiative.

Harefield is home to Harefield United Football Club, which was founded in 1868 and is the is the oldest in Middlesex.

Harefield is home to Harefield Cricket Club, whose first and second teams play their matches at the Woods Cricket Ground on Breakspear Road North.

Harefield is also home to an Elite Gymnastics Academy.

It is remarkable that a village the size of Harefield is associated with three VC recipients.

* Sergeant Robert Edward Ryder VC ( 1895-1978 ), who served in World War I in the Middlesex Regiment, was born and is buried in Harefield.

* Alexander Fleming ( 1881-1955 ), biologist and Nobel Prize winner for the discovery of penicillin, was Regional Pathologist at Harefield Hospital, 1939 ; this is recorded on a blue plaque at the main entrance door to the Hospital

Although there is no eponymous tube or railway station in Harefield, buses in the area link to Northwood and Uxbridge tube stations and Denham and Rickmansworth railway stations.

The population of Harefield was recorded as 7, 522 in 2008, by the Office for National Statistics.

The ancient Manor of Harefield was held by the Newdigate family from about 1440.

Harefield House, a Grade 2 listed building, High Street, Harefield, was built by Sir Roger Newdigate in about 1750.

Derrick Morris received his new heart in an operation carried out by Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital in 1980.

In the original transmission schedule Programme 30 ( based in Harefield ) was to be followed by a repeat of Programme 1 ( based in Denham ) and so a programme about moving house was shot to link the two locations.

This is achieved by giving subscriber lines on each exchange different prefix numbers, thus: all numbers are six-figure ; Denham numbers start with 83, Harefield with 82, Ruislip with 6 and West Drayton with 4.

In 1929 it was enlarged by gaining from Uxbridge Rural District the parishes of Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East and Ickenham.

Alexander Korda's Denham Film Studios, sited between the junction of the Rickmansworth Road ( now the A412 North Orbital road ) and Moor Hall Road towards Harefield, provided some employment.

The site was subsequently cleared and sited between the junction of the Rickmansworth Road ( now the A412 North Orbital road ) and Moor Hall Road towards Harefield, provided some employment.

* Harefield Road tube station-a station between Denham and West Ruislip that would have been built if the Central Line extension to Denham had been built.

At Cowley, the canal begins to climb the valley of the River Colne following a north-westerly course to Uxbridge After Denham and Harefield, it passes to the south of Rickmansworth.

The nearest places to Harefield are: Denham, Ickenham, Northwood, Rickmansworth, Ruislip and Uxbridge.

Of these areas, the borough is further divided into these wards: Barnhill Ward, Botwell Ward, Brunel Ward, Cavendish Ward, Charville Ward, Eastcote and East Ruislip Ward, Harefield Ward, Heathrow Villages Ward, Hillingdon East Ward, Ickenham Ward, Manor Ward, Northwood Hills Ward, Northwood Ward, Pinkwell Ward, South Ruislip Ward, Townfield Ward, Uxbridge North Ward, Uxbridge South Ward, West Drayton Ward, West Ruislip Ward, Yeading Ward, Yiewsley Ward: this link has pointers to maps.

The centres include Barra Hall, Belmore, Cherry Lane, Colham Manor, Cornerstone, Cowley St. Laurence, Harefield, Hillside, McMillan Early Childhood Centre, Nestles Avenue, Oak Farm, Uxbridge College ( Hayes Campus ).

The borough maintains several libraries: Charville, Eastcote, Harefield, Harlington, Hayes End, Hayes, Ickenham, Manor Farm, Northwood Hills, Northwood, Oak Farm, Ruislip Manor, South Ruislip, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Yeading, and Yiewsley.

* U9 ( Uxbridge to Harefield )

He inherited estates at Arbury Hall, near Nuneaton and at Harefield, near Uxbridge on the death of his father in 1893.

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 defined the seat as comprising the parishes of Ashford *, Bedfont, Cowley, Cranford, Feltham, Hampton, Hampton Wick, Hanworth, Harefield, Harlington, Harmondsworth, Hayes, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Laleham *, Littleton *, Northolt, Ruislip, Shepperton *, Staines *, Stanwell *, Sunbury *, Teddington, Uxbridge, West Drayton, and Yiewsley.

1974-1983: The seat was re-classified as a borough constituency, comprising the Hillingdon wards of Colham-Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Uxbridge, and Yiewsley.

1983-1997: The constituency was unchanged from 1974, but following re-warding it comprised the wards of Colham, Cowley, Harefield, Hillingdon East, Hillingdon North, Hillingdon West, Ickenham, Uxbridge North, Uxbridge South, West Drayton, and Yiewsley.

She gets on at Hill End Road in Harefield and accidentally leaves Pippin on the bus, but is soon reunited with her thanks to the helpful driver of the U9 in Uxbridge.

Uxbridge exchange is the parent for Denham, Harefield, Ruislip and West Drayton ; anyone connected to any of those exchanges can call any of the others without having to prefix the number with 01895.

:: An extension beyond West Ruislip to Harefield Road and Denham was planned ( and shown on tube maps of the period ) but was abandoned, along with the Northern Heights extensions of the Northern line, due to post-war establishment of the Metropolitan Green Belt around London, which restricted development of land in the area.

Woodland areas in Middlesex were registered in the number of pigs which could be supported there ; Harefield had 1, 200, the second highest in the Hundred of Elthorne to Ruislip, with 1, 500.

They link the Ickenham area with Harefield, Hillingdon and Ruislip.

M. ( 2007 ) Around Ruislip, Eastcote, Northwood, Ickenham & Harefield.

M. ( 2007 ) Around Ruislip, Eastcote, Northwood, Ickenham & Harefield.

M. ( 2007 ) Around Ruislip, Eastcote, Northwood, Ickenham & Harefield.