In message , at 16:25:37 on Sun, 25 Sep
2016, Mizter T remarked:

On a broader view, siting London's main airport at Heathrow was
something of a folly.

iirc it was farmland which was commandeered as a wartime airstrip.

meme
They only built Windsor castle at the end of the runway later.
/meme

From the kerfuffle about where to put the third London Airport, if
people had objected to Heathrow's expansion, we'd perhaps be stuck with
one of the world's busiest International airports in the middle of
Croydon.
--
Roland Perry