In the
Domesday Book of 1086 the whole area was recorded as "Evreham" or "homestead by the brow of a hill" and it was in the possession of a man called
Robert Doiley. In 1351 the area was granted a
Royal charter to hold a weekly
market. This charter was confirmed 110 years later in 1461.
Iver Iver village, on the
Uxbridge to
Langley road, has a pre-
Domesday foundation and
Neolithic pottery fragments and other artefacts have been discovered. The village church has shards of a
Saxon window, and elements dating from the 15th century, 16th century and 17th century can be seen. The village has numerous houses from the 16th and 17th centuries.
Thorney In the spring of 893 a
Viking raiding army plundered through
Kent and
Sussex. After reaching
Farnham in
Surrey it was intercepted by
Alfred the Great's son
Edward with his
West Saxon Fyrd. The Danes were routed, fleeing over the
River Thames into
Mercia with the West Saxon army in pursuit. Having reached the
River Colne the Danes mounted a defence on what was known as Thorney Island, believed to be land between the Colne and an offshoot channel of the river between Thorney and Iver. Edward began a siege of the island and was joined by
Æthelred of Mercia with soldiers from the Mercian garrison in London. After a prolonged stalemate an agreement was reached with the Danes that they would to leave the Angle and Saxon controlled lands peacefully and go directly to the lands in the east under Danish control which they duly did, without any of their plundered spoils.
Iver Heath Iver Heath is the location of
Heatherden Hall, a
Victorian estate with spectacular grounds. It was purchased by Lt. Col.
Grant Morden, a Canadian financier, who transformed the mansion by adding a huge ballroom and
Turkish bath. During the 1930s it became a retreat and private meeting place for politicians and diplomats. The agreement to form the
Irish Free State was signed at Heatherden Hall. The Church of St Margaret was built in 1862. Iver Heath itself is centred on a triangle of roads. The village post office was on the Slough Road to the south, but closed in September 2020, while a
parade of shops used to be found along Church Road to the north. Slough Road and Church Road are connected by Bangors Road North to the east.
Richings Park Richings Park was once the estate of
Lord Bathurst. In the 1630s, the Richings estate was owned by the Salter family, who in 1678 sold it to Sir Peter Apsley. His daughter Catherine married her cousin,
Allen Bathurst, 1st Earl Bathurst. Around 1740, the estate was sold to the Earl of Hertford, and in 1776 to Sir John Coghill, 1st Baronet of Richings. In the 1780s, the house was burned down and rebuilt. It was later the home of the
Sullivan and Meeking families. Ironically, in 1924,
Viola Meeking married into the Bathurst family who had held the Richings Park estate two centuries earlier. The new Richings Park mansion, very briefly the home of
RAF Bomber Command, was destroyed during
World War II, and its site is now a residential area with its own shopping facilities. Local street names reflect the history of the estate. The cellars of the house are still visible in fields now overlooking the
M4. Richings Park is the location of
Iver railway station on the
Elizabeth line. ==Black Park Country Park and Langley Park Country Park==