Originally Posted by
Duchess_Driver
I have a book at home “Heathrow through the ages” (can’t remember off hand the author) which suggests the area was once the stomping ground of Dick Turpin.
So the legend goes - and kept alive in The Ballad of Dick Turpin:
"On Hounslow Heath as I rode o'er
I spied a lawyer riding before
Kind Sir says he Aren't you afraid
Of Turpin, that mischievous blade"
et seq