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“RUISLIP, (or Riselip), a parish in the hundred of Elthorne, county Middlesex, 4 miles N.E. of Uxbridge, its post town, and 4 from the Pinner railway station. It comprises the hamlets of Eastcott and North-Wood.
It is mentioned in Domesday Book as Rislepe, and was given by Ernulf de Hêding to Bec Abbey, in Normandy. At the suppression of alien priories it was seized by Henry IV. for his son John Duke of Bedford, and subsequently granted by Edward IV. to King's College, Cambridge. The village, which is considerable, is chiefly agricultural. There is some woodland and common. The Regent's Canal Company have a reservoir covering an area of 80 acres in this parish. The tithes were commuted for land and corn rents under an Enclosure Act in 1804. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of London, value £462, in the patronage of the Dean and Canons of Windsor. The church, dedicated to St. Martin, is an ancient structure with an oaken roof. It contains many ancient tombs and brasses, including that of Lady Banks, who defended Corfe Castle in 1643 for Charles I. There is also a district church at Norwood, or North-Wood, the living of which is a perpetual curacy,* value £30. The parochial charities produce about £54 per annum. Park Wood is the principal residence.
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from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland - 1868
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Description(s) from The National Gazetteer (1868)]
"RUISLIP, (or Riselip), a parish in the hundred of Elthorne, county Middlesex, 4 miles N.E. of Uxbridge, its post town, and 4 from the Pinner railway station. It comprises the hamlets of Eastcott and North-Wood. " (There is more of this description).
"EASTCOTE, (or Eastcott) a hamlet in the parish of Ruislip, county Middlesex, 3 miles N.W. of Harrow. Eastcar House is the principal residence."
"NORTHWOOD, a hamlet in the parish of Ruislip, county Middlesex, 3 miles N.E. of Uxbridge."
Description(s) from "The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland" (1868), transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003; intended for personal use only, so please respect the conditions of use.
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Ruislip and Uxbridge Workers Educational Association have published various books including "Here Lyeth - Life and Death in Ruislip 1700 -1900" published in 1979 which contains a plan of St Martin's churchyard with all the memorials marked on it, and the 1979-82 Local History Group with Eileen Bowlt as Course Tutor published "Ruislip Around 1900".