Cranford Park
Park · Hayes, England
Cranford Park covers 144 acres off the Parkway at Hayes, UB3 4RA, and opened to the public in 1949. The park straddles the Hounslow boundary, and its listed structures stand on the Hillingdon side: St Dunstan's Church, Grade II*, NHLE 1181190; the Cranford House stables, Grade II, NHLE 1080157; the ha-ha walls south and south-west of the stables, Grade II, NHLE 1285085; the cellars of the demolished Cranford House, Grade II, NHLE 1285115; and Cranford Park Bridge, Grade II, NHLE 1358320. The council records a café building under construction above the historic cellars, with the toilets and information centre unavailable meanwhile.
History
The park opened in 1949 as a joint venture of Hayes & Harlington Urban District Council and Heston & Isleworth Borough Council, after Cranford House was demolished following the Second World War. St Dunstan's Church, listed Grade II* on 27 May 1949 as list entry 1181190, is thought to have been founded in the reign of Edward the Confessor. The 18th-century stable block, NHLE 1080157, was listed on the same day, and Cranford Park Bridge over the ha-ha in the woodland followed on 21 May 1973 as NHLE 1358320. The village of Cranford is mostly in Hounslow while the park is Hillingdon's. Hayes & Harlington Rail Station, on the Elizabeth line and Great Western Railway, is 1,474 m away; the 105 and H28 buses stop at Cranford Community School 632 m off and the E6 on Roseville Road 690 m off.
Visit
Cranford Park, Cranford House Stables, off the Parkway, Hayes UB3 4RA
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