Printer friendlyIver & Iver Heath
One of the District’s largest parishes, Iver flanks the Greater London border in the vicinity of Uxbridge for several miles. Iver village is on the Uxbridge to Langley road and has a pre-Domesday foundation - finds there have included Neolithic potsheds.
The church shows work from many periods (including fragments of a Saxon window) but it has been substantially altered by successive restorations. Within are to be seen 15th and 16th century tombs and brasses as well as a late 17th century pulpit carved with garlands and cherubs’ hands.
Despite modern development, the village has numerous 16th and 17th century houses, one of which, Bridgefoot House, is a fine early Georgian residence, the home for ten years of G.F. Bodley, the church architect. Iver Lodge is a handsome 19th century house.
Adjoining Iver is Richings Park, once the estate of Lord Bathurst but now the site of a residential estate with its own sports club, churches and shopping centre. Nearby stood the Richings Park mansion which was destroyed during Word War II.
The Pinewood Film Studios lie within the Parish at Iver Heath, off Pinewood Road. In a room at Heatherden Hall, once a private mansion, but now housing the studios’ offices, is a plaque commemorating the signing there of the ratification of agreement for the formation of the Irish Free State.
The church at Iver Heath was built in 1862 and is in the Gothic Revival style.
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