[1] Harefield is the westernmost settlement in Greater London, and lies outside the capital's contiguous built-up area.

[2] Harefield enters recorded history through the Domesday Book (1086) as Herefelle,[3] comprising the Anglo-Saxon words Here "[danish] army" (c.f.

[5] Before the Norman conquest of England, the Manor of Harefield belonged to Countess Goda, the sister of Edward the Confessor.

[6] Following the Norman conquest, ownership of Harefield passed to Richard FitzGilbert, the son of Count Gilbert of Brionne.

Woodland areas in Middlesex were registered in the number of pigs which could be supported there; Harefield had 1,200, the second highest in the Hundred of Elthorne to Ruislip, with 1,500.

[6] Ten villeins (tenants) are also counted; they held their land freely from the lord in exchange for rent payments and labour.

John Newdigate exchanged most of his land in 1585 with the Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Sir Edmund Anderson.

He sold the manor to Sir Thomas Egerton, who staged an elaborate entertainment for Queen Elizabeth in 1602.

The church holds the tomb in which Alice Stanley, Dowager Countess of Derby was laid to rest in January 1637.

Dowager Stanley was a Spencer, from Althorp in Northamptonshire, of the family to which Diana Princess of Wales belonged.

Sir Michael Shersby, MP for Uxbridge from 1972 to 1997, is buried in the churchyard along with his widow Lady Barbara.

In 2015 the building was used as the filming location for the interior of the island mansion in the TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's mystery novel And Then There Were None.

The School is set in the village of Harefield on the edge of the green belt and is adjacent to the commencement of agricultural land.

The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), a number of directors of Watford Football Club, and the London Borough of Hillingdon worked together to seek to bring about a significant improvement in educational and health standards.

In 2008, however, the Dairy Farm Ground (behind the current first team pitch) was opened in order to accommodate the third and fourth XIs.

The Harefield Academy, Northwood Road, opened in September 2005 on the John Penrose School site.

Two booklets in the Reference section of Harefield library give details of the three recipients of the award.

In 2011, Hillingdon Council erected a blue plaque in honour of the courage of Kinross VC at the place of his birth on the anniversary of his birthday, 17 February.