Expert Carpet Cleaning Hornchurch RM11

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The Palm Hotel Hornchurch offers a convenient three-star accommodation in the Havering area. Located on Southend Arterial Road, Havering RM11, the hotel offers comfortable guest rooms and provides laundry facilities. With London Stansted Airport in under a 40 minute drive, and convenient public transport to Central London, The Palm Hotel Hornchurch is ideal for people wanting to explore the capital and its landmarks. Each room has an on-site bathroom facility, colour TV, radio, tea/coffee makers, and a direct dial phone. The hotel includes a piano bar as well as modern restaurant with lots of plants and pine furniture. We wonder why the management have not contacted us to clean their carpeted corridors and rooms?!? Maybe they don't know how amazing our quality carpet shampoo and rinse is.

The Old Days

Hornchurch is one of those towns within the Greater London Metropolitan area that has a quirky name. One wonders how horns and churches became associated, and the imagination quickly turns to possibilities involving Old Nick and a local worthy, similar to the legends of St Dunstan, maybe. However, the reality behind the name is much more prosaic: the name was taken from St Andrew’s church. The name was an English translation of the more stately Latin used for the abbey that the original French monks for whom the church was built came from: Monasterium Cornutum. Much later on in the history of St Andrews and long after the French monks had left, a carved bull’s head that featured an impressive set of horns was added to the church building. Exactly why the original abbey had its name is something of a mystery, though, and maybe that’s where some odd legend may come into play.

However, Hornchurch as a settlement goes back well before the 1200s when the original abbey was built. Archaeologists have found Bronze Age and even Stone Age artefacts in the area, suggesting that people have been living in the area ever since. 

The Middle Ages brought the monks, as recorded in the paragraph about the town’s name. These monks left before the Dissolution of the monasteries – lucky them – and the priory was taken over by William of Wykeham, who was the Lord Chancellor under Richard II. William, being a bishop as well as Lord Chancellor, set to and carried out a few renovations to the church, although church interiors tended to be rather Spartan when it came to comfort during those days, no matter how impressive the architecture was. (Monks were expected to stand, not sit, during services, although those who were a bit old and infirm could lean – not sit – on “misericords”. And you thought the seats in your local place of worship were hard!). William also had a keen interest in education, and used the lands around Hornchurch to maintain New College in Oxford, which he founded.

20th Century

Hornchurch seemed to just potter on quietly, expanding during the development of the railways in the Victorian era, like many other towns around London. It was during this time that the bull’s head was added to the church, and serious advances in the cleaning of carpet were about to happen. But in the war years, Hornchurch managed to gain some prominence. This was because the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Hornchurch was established. This RAF base also has the bull’s head as part of its official insignia. During both world wars, this base was crucial for defence, as it was close to London and was ideally placed for Sopwith Camels (during World War 1) and Spitfires (during World War 2) to take off ready to intercept German bombers. This airfield is no longer in use and much of the grounds and buildings have been converted into housing and associated facilities: Hornchurch Country Park. 

Hornchurch today contains a number of similar housing estates to Hornchurch Country Park. Anyclean has cleaned a lot of carpet at the houses around those estates and we know the area very well. 

Do you live locally and require your carpets to be professionally cleaned? Just call us on 020 7099 6964 for an instant quote.