Yeading is very early Saxon and was originally Geddingas or Geddinges, meaning "the people of Geddi".

The main industry in Hayes and Yeading at this time was brickmaking, and the canal provided a reliable way of transporting larger numbers of bricks.

A bourgeois writer, one Elizabeth Hunt, wrote in 1861 that in "Yeading dirt, ignorance and darkness reign supreme.

During the War, a properly constructed road was built linking the Great Western Railway station at Hayes with the L.N.E.R.

By 1956, Yeading's Tilbury Square was still without gas and electricity, and oil stoves and open fires were still used; the public house The Willow Tree, reputedly some 400 years old (demolished in 2009[7]), was lit by three cylinders of calor gas.

Other popular places of birth included India (10.6%), Sri Lanka (3.2%), Pakistan (2.8%) and Somalia (2.6%).