Goda of England or Godgifu or Gode (c.1004 – c.1049/1056) was the daughter of King Æthelred the Unready and his second wife Emma of Normandy , and sister of King Edward the Confessor . She married firstly Drogo of Mantes , count of the Véxin , probably on 7 April 1024, and had sons by him:
31-595: Harefield Hospital is a health institution in Harefield , London Borough of Hillingdon , England. It is managed by the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust . The first hospital on the site was the No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital established during the First World War to treat injured Australians and New Zealander soldiers. After the war Middlesex County Council decided to use
62-620: A Viscountess, and at the foot of her tomb is a coroneted eagle, a reminder of the Stanleys' armorial crest. This commemorates their descent from the Lathoms, which was the foundation of their fortunes. Sir Michael Shersby, MP for Uxbridge from 1972 to 1997, is buried in the churchyard along with his widow Lady Barbara. The ancient Manor of Harefield was held by the Newdigate family from about 1440. The old Manor house, Harefield Place , adjacent to St Mary
93-545: A commemoration service is attended by local dignitaries, representatives from the Australian and New Zealand governments, local school children and many retired servicemen. Following the church service the congregation move to the cemetery and form around the Anzac memorial. The last post and reveille are played, followed by a wreath-laying ceremony. Local school children also place flowers on the well-kept grave sites. The church holds
124-764: 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 . Its sister hospital in the trust is the Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea . Sir Magdi Yacoub , consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Harefield Hospital (1969–2002), carried out the first live lobe lung transplant , and went on to perform more transplants than any other surgeon in
155-538: Is served by route 331 operating between Uxbridge and Ruislip , and route U9 between Uxbridge and Harefield Hospital . Godgifu, daughter of %C3%86thelred the Unready She married secondly Eustace II, Count of Boulogne in 1035. This marriage was childless. Historians disagree about the date of her death. Heather Tanner dates it c.1047 and says that Eustace remarried c.1049, whereas Elisabeth van Houts dates her death c. 1056. According to David Bates ,
186-450: Is surely one of the finest of its time anywhere in England. The mourning daughters beside the tomb are not meant to be lifelike representations of her actual daughters, Anne, Frances and Elizabeth; they conform to a stereotype often observed on grand monuments of this kind. But the figure of Alice Countess of Derby is probably closer to historical reality. She wears the coronet of a Countess, not
217-872: The Domesday Book (1086) as Herefelle , comprising the Anglo-Saxon words Here "[danish] army" (c.f. the English fyrd ) and felle (later feld ), "field". Before the Norman conquest of England , the Manor of Harefield belonged to Countess Goda , the sister of Edward the Confessor . Her husbands were French , Dreux of the Vexin and Count Eustace of Boulogne . Following the Norman conquest, ownership of Harefield passed to Richard FitzGilbert ,
248-762: The London Borough of Hillingdon , England, 17 miles (27 km) northwest of Charing Cross near Greater London 's boundary with Buckinghamshire to the west and Hertfordshire to the north. The population at the 2011 Census was 7,399. Harefield is the westernmost settlement in Greater London, and lies outside the capital's contiguous built-up area. Harefield is near Denham , Ickenham , Northwood , Rickmansworth , Ruislip and Uxbridge . Pioneering heart surgery techniques were developed at Harefield Hospital . Two sites near Dewes Farm have produced late Mesolithic artefacts. Harefield enters recorded history through
279-712: The advowson was given to the Knights Hospitallers , although the Newdigate family later became patrons of the church. The church building has some medieval features, but was restored and altered in 1768, and again in 1841. The church cemetery contains the graves of over 100 soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force who died at No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital (Harefield Park Hospital) after being wounded in World War I . The hospital became Harefield prior to World War II . Each year on Anzac Day
310-823: The Clares, descended from Richard FitzGerald, before passing to the Batchworths by 1235. In turn, the Swanlord family took possession in 1315. By 1446, the Newdigate family owned Harefield - they still owned some land in the 1920s. John Newdigate exchanged most of his land in 1585 with the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , Sir Edmund Anderson . He sold the manor to Sir Thomas Egerton , who staged an elaborate entertainment for Queen Elizabeth in 1602. During World War I , Harefield Park
341-604: The Harefield Place Golf Club. Harefield House, a Grade II listed building , High Street, Harefield, was built by Sir Roger Newdigate in about 1750. From about 1765 to 1809 it was occupied by J. M. Bruhl. During World War I it served as No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital. In 1937 it was acquired by the Ministry of Defence and was occupied by the Aeronautical Inspection Directorate. After 1982
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#1732858998864372-534: The John Penrose School in September 2005. The new academy is an age 11 to 18 school with accommodation for 750 students aged 11 to 15 and a further 250 post-16 students. 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 Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), a number of directors of Watford Football Club , and
403-593: The London Borough of Hillingdon worked together to seek to bring about a significant improvement in educational and health standards. 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 oldest in Middlesex. Harefield is home to Harefield Cricket Club, whose first and second teams play their matches at
434-450: The Virgin church, was replaced in 1786, when a new mansion house was built at Harefield Lodge. The old 'Harefield Place' fell into disrepair and was demolished in 1813, whereupon the new Manor house became known as Harefield Place. It was sold by Charles Newdigate Newdegate in 1877. In 1938 it was acquired by the local authority to serve as a hospital. In 1959 the land was redeveloped and is now
465-712: The Woods Cricket Ground on Breakspear Road North. In 2008, however, the Dairy Farm Ground (behind the current first team pitch) was opened in order to accommodate the third and fourth XIs. This was done in conjunction with the Harefield Parochial Charity. In 2009, the first XI achieved promotion to the Home Counties Cricket League, and are therefore one division away from the highest level of club cricket in England and Wales. In 2010, HCC had
496-500: The building was restored and converted to office use. In 2015 the building was used as the filming location for the interior of the island mansion in the TV adaptation of Agatha Christie 's mystery novel And Then There Were None . Breakspear House (Breakspears), a Grade I listed building, originally constructed in the 17th century also falls within Harefield. The Harefield Academy replaced
527-477: The development of ' artificial hearts ' (also known as left ventricular assist devices or LVADs)". The grounds of the hospital also house the Harefield Heart Science Centre, where research is performed into the causes and treatments of heart disease. 51°36′25″N 0°28′59″W / 51.607°N 0.483°W / 51.607; -0.483 Harefield Harefield is a village in
558-427: The exceptional bravery of both Goodlake VC and Ryder VC . In 2011, Hillingdon Council erected a blue plaque in honour of the courage of Kinross VC at the place of his birth on the anniversary of his birthday, 17 February. There is no tube or railway station in Harefield. However buses in the area link to Northwood and Uxbridge tube stations and Denham and Rickmansworth railway stations. Harefield
589-608: The highest ranked club in the area. Harefield is also home to an Elite Gymnastics Academy. The Harefield Academy, Northwood Road, opened in September 2005 on the John Penrose School site. Harefield is associated with three recipients of the Victoria Cross . Two booklets in the Reference section of Harefield library give details of the three recipients of the award. A gold plaque in the Royal British Legion Hall honours
620-491: The hospital's roll call of distinguished cardiologists were Paul Wood and Walter Somerville . Arguably, the hospital's most famous surgeon was Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub , who performed the UK's first heart and lung transplant at Harefield in 1983. Under the leadership of Sir Magdi Yacoub, the Harefield Hospital transplant programme had begun in 1980 and by the end of the decade he and his team had performed one thousand of
651-468: The lord in exchange for rent payments and labour. By the 12th or 13th century their land is believed to have passed back to the lord and become unfree. There were also seven bordars (poorer tenants) with five acres each, while one had three. In addition, three cottars , who owned a cottage and garden, also feature. Harefield was eventually split into the main manor of Harefield, and the two smaller submanors of Brackenbury and Moorhall. It had been owned by
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#1732858998864682-672: The marriage between Godgifu and Eustace was criticised for unspecified reasons at the Council of Reims in 1049 , which was presided over by the Pope. This seems to have resulted in an end to the marriage and her return to England, where she was treated generously by her brother. After the Norman Conquest of England by William the Conqueror , the lands owned by Goda in Buckinghamshire were given to
713-537: The most successful season in its history, with the second, third & fourth XI's all winning their respective leagues. The Sunday Academy side won their division of the Chess Valley League. The 2014 season saw the first XI play their first season in the Premier Division and after a protracted relegation battle, they survived on the last game of season. A second season in the top flight secured their status as
744-535: The procedures, while the hospital had become the leading UK transplant centre. In a January 2008 press release, the trust announced that Harefield Hospital had become the leader in the south east of England for treating acute heart attack patients with primary angioplasty and coronary stent insertion to reduce the length of hospital stays. In the 2010 staff survey conducted by the Care Quality Commission, one staff member in five (of those who responded to
775-628: The site to build a series of single-storey pavilions which opened as the Harefield Sanatorium in October 1921. Work started on a more permanent structure in 1935 and the new building was opened on 8 October 1937 by the Duke of Gloucester , with many of the wards featuring large open areas to give patients access to the fresh air. The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948. Amongst
806-599: The son of Count Gilbert of Brionne . It was listed in the Domesday Book as comprising enough arable land for five ploughs, with meadow land only sufficient for one plough. 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. Ten villeins (tenants) are also counted; they held their land freely from
837-472: The south of the present church and parts of its moat and brickwork can still be seen. Alice, Dowager Countess of Derby was also Dowager Viscountess Brackley . Her second husband Thomas Egerton, Lord Ellesmere , an eminent lawyer and Lord Chancellor of England , had died in 1617. But the Derby title was the one she preferred to be known by, and it is the one by which she is described on her funeral monument, which
868-482: The survey) reported having been the subject of discrimination and one in fifty having been assaulted at work by a fellow staff member. However, "only a minority of staff said they felt work pressures, with four-fifths of employees adding they would recommend the trust as a place to work or receive treatment." The hospital advertises as being "one of the largest and most experienced centres in the world for heart and lung transplants " and having "jointly pioneered work in
899-702: The tomb in which Alice Stanley, Dowager Countess of Derby was laid to rest in January 1637. Dowager Stanley was a Spencer , from Althorp in Northamptonshire , of the family to which Diana Princess of Wales belonged. She was the widow of Ferdinando, 5th Earl of Derby , who had been poisoned because of his closeness to the throne of England. Very soon after Ferdinando's murder in 1594 Alice had to move out of Lathom and Knowsley in Lancashire. She came to live at Harefield Place in considerable splendour. The house stood to
930-419: The world. By the end of the 1980s Harefield Hospital was the leading transplant centre. Magdi Yacoub was involved in the development of heart and heart-lung transplants. St Mary's Parish Church (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 the late 12th century
961-539: Was used as an Australian military hospital. The bodies of the servicemen who died there were buried with full military honours within the graveyard of St Mary's Church; the area, which also included the ground where the Harefield Place building stood, became a military cemetery. In 1929 Harefield became part of the Municipal Borough of Uxbridge , then in 1965 the London Borough of Hillingdon. Harefield Hospital