Waterside (building)
The Waterside building in Harmondsworth, Greater London, is the international head office of British Airways.

The Waterside building in Harmondsworth, Greater London, is the international head office of British Airways. It also houses the operational head office of BA's parent company, International Airlines Group (IAG). The building and landscaping, which cost £200 million, is on Harmondsworth Moor, northwest of Heathrow Airport, between the M4 and the M25 motorways in the linear Colne Valley regional park. Waterside is on the western edge of Greater London, near West Drayton and Uxbridge, in the Borough of Hillingdon.
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Worth seeing in and around Waterside (building)
6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Longford River
The Longford River is an artificial waterway, a distributary designed to embellish a park, that diverts water 12 miles from the River Colne at Longford near Colnbrook in England, to Bushy Park and Hampton Court Palace. Its main outlet is to the reach above Molesey Lock with lesser pond outlet channels to that above Teddington Lock.
700 m · ground-level aqueduct in London and Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Slipstream
Slipstream is a sculpture by Richard Wilson, created in 2014 for the wholly re-built Terminal 2 at Heathrow Airport, London. The large art intervention of aviation relevance was loosely specified, approved and project managed by Mark Davy, founder of the cultural and place-making agency Futurecity for the airport as owner.
3.1 km · sculpture by Richard Wilson · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary, Stanwell
The Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stanwell, is a Church of England parish church in the village of Stanwell, Surrey. It dates to the 12th-century and is a grade I listed building.
3.3 km · historic church in Stanwell, Surrey, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 04Wraysbury Reservoir
Wraysbury Reservoir is a water supply reservoir for London, west of the M25, east of the village of Wraysbury, and under the western approach path of Heathrow's southern runway. Construction began in 1967 and was completed by W. & C. French in 1970 with a capacity of 34,000 million litres.
3.8 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05Stanwell Place
Stanwell Place was a manor house and associated estate and tenant farms, located to the west of the village of Stanwell, Middlesex. During the early part of the 20th century parts of the estate were sold off to create a reservoir and a series of local small holdings.
3 km · house in Middlesex, England · Wikipedia - 06Roman Catholic Church of St Catherine
St Catherine's Church or St Catherine of Alexandria Church is a Catholic parish church in West Drayton, Borough of Hillingdon, London. It was built from 1868 to 1869 and designed by Thomas John Willson and Samuel Joseph Nicholl.
2.2 km · catholic church building in Hillingdon, London, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Waterside (building)
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 2 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 43 km · London Luton (LTN), 44 km
- Stations
- London Heathrow Airport, 1.9 km · Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 tube station, 2.8 km · Heathrow Terminal 4 tube station, 4 km · Heathrow Terminal 5 station, 1.5 km · Heathrow Terminals 2 & 3 railway station, 2.8 km
- London → Waterside (building)7696 km · quickest by air, 16h 4m · £1,030–1,570
- Luton, Luton → Waterside (building)7651 km · quickest by air, 16h 51m · £980–1,500
- London, Essex → Waterside (building)7696 km · quickest by air, 16h 4m · £1,030–1,570
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Next door to Waterside (building)
Waterside (building) is 15 km from Brent, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Colnbrookvillage in Berkshire, UK2.5 km
- Harmondsworthvillage in west London500 m
- Harlingtonarea in the London Borough of Hillingdon, west London3.4 km
- West Draytonarea of the London Borough of Hillingdon2.6 km
- Poylevillage in Berkshire, England, UK1.8 km
- Colnbrook with Poylecivil parish in Berkshire, England2.3 km