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ACTION A.
STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE
AREA.
Area (acres) 5,161
Population (Census, 1931) 23,646
Population (Mid-year, 1934) Registrar-General's
Estimate-Working Population Figure ... 29,721
Population of Area as now constituted ... ... 29,471
Present estimated population at 4.1 persons per
house 32,791
Number of inhabited houses end of 1934 ... 7,998
Rateable value ... ... ... ... ... £199,769
Sum represented by a penny rate ... Gross £827
Net (Est.) £747
SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
The Urban District of Hayes and Harlington was formed
by the union of the Parishes of Hayes, Harlington and
Cranford, but during the year 1934 that portion of Cranford
lying east of the River Crane was transferred to the Borough
of Heston and Isleworth and various other adjustments in
the boundary were made, thus reducing the area from 5,513
to 5,161 acres.
Formerly the district was purely agricultural and horticultural
but the last thirty years has seen a distinct alteration
in its character as factories have sprung up in considerable
numbers, chiefly in the neighbourhood of the railway station
and canal. There arc a few farms left and a number of
nurseries for the growing of strawberries, fruit trees, etc.
Befng of recent construction the factories are for the most
part of not unpleasant appearance, one of them being especially
well laid out in the middle of its own playing fields and gardens.
The highest point in the district is at Charville Lane
(182 feet above sea level) and the lowest (70 feet above
sea level) below the bridge where the Bath Road crosses the
River Crane. The sub-soil is clay in the north and east and
gravel in the west, the surface being for the most part quite
flat.
Public parks in the district have an area of 190 acres,
some of them having been laid out for games and sports.
There is an absence of slums, no doubt on account of the fact
that until recent years there were few houses at all in the
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