Hounslow Heath

Walks available on Hounslow Heath by arrangement.
Private walks by arrangement all year round

For scheduled walks : Meet at 2:30pm. Starts from car park, junction Staines Road/Frampton Road, Hounslow

All our regular walks cost £3.00 per person.

Hounslow Heath

A circular walk covering the site of the first civil airport, haunt of highwaymen, location of army camps and East Bedfont Gunpowder Mills.

Hounslow Heath is the site of the first civil airport in the country, and the first Civil Airline service anywhere in the world, London to Paris. The walk crosses the heath where Kings hunted, armies camped and highwaymen roamed, and goes on to the remains of the East Bedfont Gunpowder Mills.

 

First flight to Australia from Hounslow Heath 1919

12th November 1919 : Vickers Vimy, crew and passengers, Hounslow Heath, inaugural commercial flight to Australia. (LB Hounslow archives).

Getting to Hounslow

Online routes from Transport for London
Bus 116, 117, 235, 237, 423
Parking free car park off Frampton Road
Sat Nav TW4 5AD