This is a quick cache you can do if you are passing through
Heathrow Airport. It is just a short walk from some of the major
hotels or you can even get one of the free buses from the terminals
if you have a few hours to spare. We also recommend our other
Doomed Village Cache, which is quick to do and takes you to a nice
area near a quaint village.
Harlington and Harmondsworth are ancient Middlesex parishes. For
more than a thousand years they remained in peaceful obscurity but
since 1944 they have contained within their boundaries most of
Heathrow Airport.
The development of Heathrow has drastically changed their character
over the last 50 years and continually threatens their very
existence.
Harlington (or Arlington as it is often called, after Lord
Arlington)was first mentioned in the Domesday book as
Herdintone.
Amongst one of the most famous people to have lived in the
village is perhaps William Byrd, one of England's most gifted
composers of the Elizabethan age. He and his family were devout
Roman Catholics and during the period of religious persecution in
the 1570's they fled London to the comparative safety of
Harlington.
The cache is hidden in an open area on the edge of the
village.
The cache is NOT hidden in the dumped rubble