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WhyWasHeathrow’sNameChangedFromLondonAirport?
byLukeBodell
October25,
HeathrowAirport,theUK’sbusiestairport,celebratesits75thanniversarythisyear.Whatmanydon’tknowisthatHeathrowAirportwasinitiallycalled‘LondonAirport’beforeitscurrentnamewasadoptedin.SowhatexactlyledtoLondonAirport’srenaming?Weexplorethisquestionbelow.
HeathrowAirportwascalled‘LondonAirport’for20years,betweento.Photo:GettyImages
AbriefhistoryofLondonAirport
WhileHeathrowAirportwasofficiallyestablishedinasLondonAirport,itsoriginsstretchbackevenfurther.ThesiteofHeathrowwashometoaprivateairfieldinoperatedbyBritishaircraftmanufacturerFaireyAviation.
KnownatthetimeastheGreatWestAerodrome,theairfieldwassituatedbyalittlehamletcalled‘HeathRow’ontheoutskirtsofLondon.Thissmallsettlementwasdemolishedentirelyintomakeroomforexpansionwork.Historicaldocumentsfromthe15thcenturyrecordedthehamlet’snameas‘LaHetherewe.’
HeathrowAirport,whileitwasstillLondonAirport,in.Photo
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In,theairfieldbeganoperatingitsfirst
