Why was London Airport called Heathrow?

Answer 1

Before World War 2, London's airport was in Croydon, but in 1946 it was realised that there was no room for expansion in Croydon so the wartime airfield at Heathrow was earmarked for development. The airfield at Heathrow was a military site until handed over to commercial use in 31 May 1946. Prior to the military use in 1925: its claimed that Norman Macmillan, an Royal Air Force officer, had to make a forced landing and take-off at Heathrow. He noted the flatness of the land and its suitability for an airfield. The land around was at the time used for market gardening.

1928: The Air Ministry gave Fairey notice to cease using Northolt. Fairey Aviation needed an airfield for flight testing of aircraft designed and manufactured at its factory in North Hyde Road, Hayes. Norman Macmillan, by then Fairey's chief test pilot, remembered the forced landing and take-off at Heathrow in 1925, and recommended the suitability of the area for an aerodrome. Macmillan flew aerial surveys of the site.

IN 1929 Fairey Aviation started by buying 148 acres of farmland in four adjoining plots near southeast of the hamlet of Heathrow from four local landowners, for about £1,500, at the typical 1929 market rate of £10 per acre.

Answer 2

Because there was a village (now under T3) called Heath-Row