London’s Pocket Parks: Sam Philp Recreation Ground, Hayes, UB3

This is a pocket park next to the M4, north of Heathrow Airport, with lots of trees planted a couple of decades ago to mitigate the noise from its noisy neighbours.
It also lost the Frogs Ditch.As a plot of green, it’s always been fields and never built on. As Hayes town centre slowly expanded after the arrival of the railways, it took an incredibly long time to reach the site of the pocket park today.
Even in the late 1930s, most of the area was still fields, and was part of Dawley Manor