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Breakspear Road South UB10 June. Location: Breakspear Road South near junction with Greenacres Avenue, Hillingdon. Description: Loud traffic, including heavy goods vehicles, passing at speed along Breakspear Road. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 19 June 2015. Time of day: 4pm.

St Georges Drive UB10 June. Location: Halfway down St George's Drive, Hillingdon. Description: Airplane drone, distant traffic, faint birdsong, footsteps of a passerby, faint sound of radio playing in a nearby house, a car drives past, noise of building work in the distance. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 19 June 2015. Time of day: 3.40pm.

Hoylake Crescent west UB10 June. Location: Hoylake Crescent near junction with The Mead, Hillingdon. Description: Distant traffic, voices of children outside a primary school, occasional traffic on Hoylake Crescent, birdsong, footsteps, a car door slams, the wind stirs foliage, faint adult voices, music from a passing car. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 19 June 2015. Time of day: 3.25pm.

Mad Field Covert June. Location: Middle of Mad Field Covert woodland to the east of Hoylake Crescent, Hillingdon. Description: Birdsong, airplane drone, distant traffic, faint banging or knocking sounds in the distance, the wind stirs foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 19 June 2015. Time of day: 3.15pm.

Hoylake Crescent east UB10 June. Location: Hoylake Crescent near junction with Woodland Close, Hillingdon. Description: A van door slams, sound of a power saw and other noises from nearby house renovation work, occasional passing traffic, faint music from a nearby house, a man's voice heard faintly. Duration: 1:57. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 19 June 2015. Time of day: 3.10pm.

River Pinn July. Location: By the river Pinn between Swakeleys Road and Copthall Road East, Ickenham, north-west London. Description: Birdsong, crows call, the wind stirs foliage, faint aircraft drone. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 12.30pm.

Copthall footpath July. Location: In a field between Harvil Road and Breakspear Road South, Ickenham, north-west London. Description: Distant traffic and airplane drone, faint birdsong, stridulation of grasshoppers, the wind stirs foliage. Duration: 2:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 13 July 2013. Time of day: 12.45pm.

TQ 0854 8826. Location: OS grid reference TQ 0854 8826. Arlington Drive. Description: Quiet residential street. Sounds of a woman tending her front garden, birdsong from trees lining the street, distant traffic, faint and indistinct voices. Duration: 1:00. Recorded by: IM Rawes. Recording date: 27 June 2009. Time of day: 3.30pm.

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