History
Hanworth has an entry in the Domesday Book of 1085. In the great book Hanworth is recorded by the name Hagan(a)worda. The main landholders being Roger Bigot The survey also mentions that there were two mills, 8 beehives,5 cobs and 24 cattle.
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