95-470: Chiswick School / ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / is an English secondary school with academy status in Chiswick , West London . It educates more than 1,300 pupils, aged 11 to 18 years. This number includes 200 pupils studying at the upper school sixth form within the school grounds. The current headteacher is Laura Ellener. The school operates a very wide curriculum, mainly focusing on Science and
190-399: A comprehensive school , following Circular 10/65 . This amalgamation created Chiswick Comprehensive School, which opened in 1968. The new school operated across two sites, with the lower school (for ages 11 to 14) occupying what had been the secondary modern school's buildings at Staveley Road, and the upper school operating on the old grammar school site at Burlington Lane. In 1973, some of
285-483: A dormer , and Thames View. Above their doors are door hoods supported by brackets. Also early 18th century is the brown brick with red dressings Grade II Woodroffe House, which was at that time of two storeys; its third story was added late in that century. A large house, started in 1665 as the house of the Russell family, then the earls of Bedford , but with an 18th-century front, is now divided into Eynham House and
380-518: A ferry across the river. The area was described by John Bowack , writing-master at Westminster School , in 1705; he wrote that "the greatest number of houses are stretched along the waterside from the Lyme kiln near Hammersmith to the Church, in which dwell several small traders, but for the most part fishermen and watermen who make up a considerable part of the inhabitants of this town." The street
475-621: A neo-Palladian villa regarded as one of the finest in England; and Fuller's Brewery , London's largest and oldest brewery. In a meander of the River Thames used for competitive and recreational rowing, with several rowing clubs on the river bank, the finishing post for the Boat Race is just downstream of Chiswick Bridge . Old Chiswick was an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex , with an agrarian and fishing economy beside
570-698: A Saturday at Dukes Meadows. Chiswick's cricket club, formerly known as Turnham Green and Polytechnic, plays at Riverside Drive. On Chiswick Common is the Rocks Lane Multi Sports Centre, where there are tennis, five-a-side football and netball courts available to hire to the public. Private tennis coaching for individuals and groups is also available. The Chiswick reach of the Thames is heavily used for competitive and recreational rowing . Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney runs past Chiswick Eyot and Duke's Meadows. The Boat Race
665-478: A balcony with a balustrade; to either side, the windows on the first floor are adorned with pilasters and topped with a pediment. The house called Orford House and The Tides are a Grade II pair; they were built by John Belcher in 1886. Orford House has timber framing in its gables, while The Tides has hanging tiling there. Belcher also designed Greenash in Arts and Crafts style , with tall chimneys and high gables for
760-913: A direct connection to Heathrow Airport and the M25 motorway . The Great West Road (A4) runs eastwards into central London via the Hogarth Roundabout where it meets the Great Chertsey Road (A316) which runs south-west, eventually joining the M3 motorway . The southern border of Chiswick runs along the River Thames, which is crossed in this area by Barnes Railway and Foot Bridge , Chiswick Bridge , Kew Railway Bridge and Kew Bridge . River services between Westminster Pier and Hampton Court depart from Kew Gardens Pier just across Kew Bridge. Bus routes on or near Chiswick High Road are
855-622: A ferry, important as there were no bridges between London Bridge and Kingston throughout the Middle Ages. The area included three other small settlements, the fishing village of Strand-on-the-Green , the hamlet of Little Sutton in the centre, and Turnham Green on the west road out of London. A decisive skirmish took place on Turnham Green early in the English Civil War . In November 1642, royalist forces under Prince Rupert , marching from Oxford to retake London, were halted by
950-520: A few types of house. These were scaled-down versions of the more expensive houses that he had designed for wealthy areas such as Chelsea , Hampstead , and Kensington . He also designed the focal buildings of the garden suburb, including the church of St Michael and All Angels and the Tabard Inn opposite it. Duke's Meadows stands on land formerly owned by the Duke of Devonshire . In the 1920s, it
1045-507: A film set, including for the BBC TV series Bergerac and Not the Nine O'clock News . From 1986 it served as Chiswick Lodge, a nursing home for patients with dementia or motor neurone disease; it closed in 2006, and the building was demolished in 2010, to be replaced by housing. The street has been depicted by a variety of artists. The Tate Gallery holds a 1974 intaglio print on paper by
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#17327917383491140-465: A group of "imposing" houses on Chiswick Mall in the Early Modern period, including a large house on the site of Walpole House, since by 1706 John Bowack wrote of "very ancient" houses beside the river at Chiswick. A house on the site of Bedford House was inhabited by the Russell family in around 1664; it and others nearby were later rebuilt. The largest, one of the finest, and most complicated of
1235-561: A larger parliamentarian force under the Earl of Essex . The royalists retreated and never again threatened the capital. From 1758 until 1929 the Dukes of Devonshire owned Chiswick House , and their legacy can be found in street names all over Chiswick. In 1864, John Isaac Thornycroft , founder of the John I. Thornycroft & Company shipbuilding company, established a yard at Church Wharf at
1330-514: A paved riverside path fronted by a row of "imposing" 18th-century houses, interspersed with three riverside pubs, the Bell and Crown, Bull’s Head, and the City Barge. The low-lying path is flooded at high tides. It became fashionable in 1759 when Kew Bridge opened just upstream, with the royal family at Kew Palace nearby. The Bedford Park neighbourhood was described by Nikolaus Pevsner as
1425-722: A place where the wealthy built imposing houses in the riverside setting. Many of the houses are older than they appear, as they were given new facades in the 18th or 19th century rather than being completely rebuilt; among them is the largest, Walpole House . St Nicholas Church, Chiswick lies at the western end; the eastern end reaches to Hammersmith . The street, which contains numerous listed buildings , partially floods at high water in spring tides . The street has been represented in paintings by artists such as Lucien Pissarro and Walter Bayes ; in literature, in Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair ; and in film and television, including in
1520-503: A stucco facade, a moulded cornice , and pineapple finials on its parapet. Another pair of the same period are the Grade II Island House and Norfolk House. They are faced in stucco, and have three storeys and double-hung sash windows. Their basements have a rusticated facade, while the grand first and second storeys are adorned with large Corinthian pilasters. At the centre, they have paired Ionic columns supporting
1615-499: Is an entablature. Its windows have double-hung sashes topped with flat arches. In front of the house is an elegant Grade II* listed screen and wrought iron gate; the gateposts are topped with globes. Its garden is listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens. Walpole House was the home of Barbara Villiers, Duchess of Cleveland , a mistress of King Charles II , until her death in 1709; it
1710-662: Is based in its boathouse off Hartington Road, which also houses the clubs of many London colleges and teaching hospitals; recent members include Tim Foster , Gold medallist at the Sydney Olympics and Frances Houghton , World Champion in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Quintin Boat Club lies between Chiswick Quay Marina and Chiswick Bridge. Tideway Scullers School is just downriver of Chiswick Bridge; its members include single sculling World Champion Mahé Drysdale and Great Britain single sculler Alan Campbell . Chiswick High Road
1805-586: Is buried in St Nicholas's churchyard. The house later belonged to the poet and translator of Dante , Henry Francis Cary , who lived there from 1814 to 1833. In February 1766 Jean-Jacques Rousseau lived a few weeks with a local grocer, before moving to Wootton, Staffordshire . The painter Johann Zoffany lived on Strand-on-the-Green. In the 19th century, the Italian writer, revolutionary and poet Ugo Foscolo died in exile at Turnham Green in 1827, and
1900-508: Is considered to be among the finest surviving examples of Palladian architecture in Britain, with superb collections of paintings and furniture. Its surrounding grounds, laid out by William Kent , are among the most important historical gardens in England and Wales, forming one of the first English landscape gardens . It was used as an asylum from 1892 to 1928; up to 40 private patients were housed in wings which were demolished in 1956 when
1995-585: Is contested on the Championship Course on a flood tide (in other words from Putney to Mortlake) with Duke's Meadows a popular view-point for the closing stages of the race. The finishing post is just downstream of Chiswick Bridge. Other important races such as the Head of the River Race race the reverse course, on an ebb tide. Chiswick is home to several clubs. The University of London Boat Club
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#17327917383492090-478: Is in a porch with cast iron columns; above the porch is a balcony of wrought iron. At the back of the house on the first floor is an oriel window . Its garden is listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens. Arabella Lennox-Boyd suggested that the garden was used by the botanist Joseph Banks to grow the plant species he had discovered. The walled garden was remodelled in
2185-608: Is managed by London Wildlife Trust . The area, a railway triangle, was saved from development by a public inquiry, and became a reserve in 1985. Its 2.5 hectares are covered mainly in secondary birch woodland, with willow carr (wet woodland) in the low-lying centre, and acid grassland on the former Acton Curve railway track. The reserve runs a varied programme of activities including wildlife walks, fungus forays, open days and talks. There are several historic public houses in Chiswick, some of them listed buildings , including
2280-547: Is no longer the local government centre but remains an approved venue for marriage and civil partnership ceremonies. Chiswick forms part of the Brentford and Isleworth Parliament constituency, having been part of the Brentford and Chiswick constituency between 1918 and 1974. The Member of Parliament (MP) is Ruth Cadbury (Labour), elected at the May 2015 general election replacing Mary Macleod (Conservative). For elections to
2375-526: Is thought to have supported an annual cheese fair up until the 18th century. The area was settled in Roman times; an urn found at Turnham Green contained Roman coins, and Roman brickwork was found under the Sutton manor house . Old Chiswick grew up as a village around St Nicholas Church from c. 1181 on Church Street, its inhabitants practising farming, fishing and other riverside trades including
2470-594: The 94 , 110 , 237 , 267 , 272 , 440 , E3 and H91 . The 94 is a 24-hour service, and the High Road is also served at night by the N9 . The District line serves Chiswick with four London Underground stations , Stamford Brook , Turnham Green , Chiswick Park and Gunnersbury . Turnham Green is an interchange with the Piccadilly line , but only before 06:50 and after 22:30, when Piccadilly line trains stop at
2565-572: The Chiswick High Road , forming a long high street in the north, with additional shops on Turnham Green Terrace and Devonshire Road. The river forms the southern boundary with Kew , including North Sheen, Mortlake and Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames . It includes the uninhabited island of Chiswick Eyot , joined to the mainland at low tide. In the east Goldhawk Road and British Grove border Hammersmith in
2660-509: The Georgian and Victorian eras , many of them now listed buildings, overlooking the street on the north side; their gardens are on the other side of the street beside the river. The largest and finest house on the street is Walpole House , a Grade I listed building; part of it is Tudor, but the building now visible is late 17th to early 18th century. Strand-on-the-Green is the most westerly part of Chiswick, "particularly picturesque" with
2755-626: The London Assembly Chiswick is in the South West constituency , represented since 2000 by Tony Arbour , of the Conservative Party. For elections to Hounslow London Borough Council , Chiswick is represented by three electoral wards : Turnham Green, Chiswick Homefields and Chiswick Riverside. Each ward elects three councillors, who serve four-year terms. For 2010–14, all nine councillors were Conservatives . It
2850-615: The London Borough of Ealing . The main shopping and dining centre is Chiswick High Road . Chiswick Roundabout is the start of the North Circular Road (A406). At Hogarth Roundabout , the Great West Road from central London becomes the M4 motorway , while the Great Chertsey Road (A316) runs south-west, becoming the M3 motorway . People who have lived in Chiswick include the poets Alexander Pope and W. B. Yeats ,
2945-597: The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham . In the north are Bedford Park (like Chiswick, within the London W4 postcode area) and South Acton in the London Borough of Ealing , with a boundary partially delineated by the District line . On the west, within Hounslow, are the districts of Gunnersbury , which is within the bounds of the early 19th century parish of Chiswick, and Brentford . A short distance south of
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3040-592: The London Borough of Hounslow . Modern Chiswick is an affluent area which includes the early garden suburb Bedford Park , Grove Park , the Glebe Estate, Strand-on-the-Green and tube stations Chiswick Park , Turnham Green , and Stamford Brook , as well as the Gunnersbury Triangle local nature reserve. Some parts of Bedford Park and Acton Green are in the Chiswick W4 postcode area but
3135-718: The Mawson Arms , the George and Devonshire , the Old Packhorse and The Tabard in Bath Road near Turnham Green station. The Tabard is known for its William Morris interior and its Norman Shaw exterior; it was built in 1880. Three more pubs are in Strand-on-the-Green , fronting on to the Thames river path. Chiswick had two well-known theatres in the 20th century. The Chiswick Empire (1912 to 1959)
3230-786: The Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex . Until 1834 its vestry governed most parish affairs. After the Poor Law Amendment Act (1834) , local administration in Chiswick began to be devolved to authorities beyond the vestry. Then, Chiswick poor relief was administered by the Brentford Poor Law Union . Briefly, from 1849 to 1855, responsibility for Chiswick drains and sewers passed to the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers under its 'Fulham and Hammersmith Sewer District.' From 1858, under
3325-498: The local shipbuilder , Sir John Thorneycroft. The medieval prebendal manor house was replaced in 1875 with a row of houses. They are decorated with many architectural details such as fruity swags. They are not all in a line, but all are the same height with a balustrade along the parapet. Dan Mason, owner of the Chiswick Soap Company, bought Rothbury House in 1911; it lay at the eastern end of Chiswick Mall, for
3420-624: The pupil premium is also above average. Chiswick County School for Girls opened in 1916 in Burlington Lane, and Chiswick County School for Boys opened in 1926 beside the girls' school. Rory K. Hands was appointed head of the boys school in 1963, and in 1966, he oversaw a merger of the two institutions, to form the co-educational Chiswick County Grammar School. Shortly thereafter, the Borough proposed that Hands' grammar school should be merged with two nearby secondary modern schools to form
3515-435: The river Thames . St Nicholas Church, Chiswick was built in the twelfth century, and by 1181, the settlement of Chiswick had grown up "immediately east" of the church. The prebendal manor house belonging to the church was founded circa 1100 as a stone building; it was demolished around 1710, and is now the site of College House and other buildings. Local trades included farming , fishing , boatbuilding , and operating
3610-565: The 1920s by the house's then owner, Howard Wilkinson and his son the stage designer Norman Wilkinson. The former Red Lion inn , now called Red Lion House, was built of brick; it was licensed as an inn by 1722 for Thomas Mawson's brewery just behind the row of houses, now the Griffin Brewery . It was conveniently placed to attract passing trade from thirsty workers from the Mall's draw dock, where boats unloaded goods including hops for
3705-499: The 1920s; the sculpture now serves as his tombstone a short distance away in St Nicholas Churchyard. The Grade II* Strawberry House was built early in the 18th century and given a new front of red bricks with red dressings around 1730. It has two main storeys with a brick attic above. The front doorway is round-headed; it has a door with six panels, topped with a fanlight decorated with complex tracery. The door
3800-515: The 1955 Breakaway , the 1961 Victim , and the 1992 Howards End . Chiswick grew as a village in Anglo-Saxon times from smaller settlements dating back to Mesolithic times in the prehistoric era. Roman roads running east–west along the lines of the modern Chiswick High Road and Wellesley Road met some 500 metres north of Chiswick Mall; the High Road was for centuries the main road westwards from London, while goods were carried along
3895-866: The 19th century, reaching 29,809 in 1901, and the area is a mixture of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian housing. Suburban building began in Gunnersbury in the 1860s and in Bedford Park , the first garden suburb , on the borders of Chiswick and Acton, in 1875. During the Second World War , Chiswick was bombed repeatedly, with both incendiary and high explosive bombs. Falling anti-aircraft shells and shrapnel also caused damage. The first V-2 rocket to hit London fell on Staveley Road , Chiswick, at 6.43pm on 8 September 1944, killing three people, injuring 22 others and causing extensive damage to surrounding trees and buildings. Six houses were demolished by
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3990-600: The Arts, and has many extracurricular activities. The school has a wide catchment, encompassing its native borough of Hounslow, but also areas including Kensington and Chelsea , Richmond , and Hammersmith and Fulham . As of 2004, the school's intake was almost 60 percent male, explained by the number of girls' schools nearby. Half of the school's students are of minority ethnic backgrounds, and 44% are from ‘disadvantaged’ backgrounds. 50% have English as their second language. The percentage of disadvantaged students receiving help from
4085-484: The Chiswick Cottage Hospital. The house was used for staff quarters, administration, and kitchens. The main hospital block was built in the ¾ acre garden; it had two ten-person wards on the ground floor, one male, one female, and a ward for twelve children upstairs; the whole hospital was constructed and equipped at Mason's expense. A third building housed the outpatients department. The main entrance
4180-507: The Chiswick Improvement Act of that year, responsibility for drains and sewers, paving and lighting was vested in an elected board of eighteen Improvement Commissioners . This operated as Chiswick's secular local authority for a quarter of a century until its replacement with a Local Board in 1883. In 1878 the parish gained a triangle of land in the east which had formed a detached part of Ealing . From 1894 to 1927
4275-544: The Confessor ) in the Diocese of Westminster , lies on the corner of Duke's Avenue and the High Road. It is a red brick building; the parish was founded in 1848, a school began c. 1855, and a church was opened by Cardinal Wiseman on the present site in 1864. It was replaced by the present building in 1886, opened by Cardinal Manning . The heavy debts incurred were paid off and the church consecrated in 1904. The square tower
4370-557: The Grade II* Bedford house. The latter has a Grade II gazebo in its garden. The actor Michael Redgrave lived in Bedford House from 1945 to 1954. The Grade II Cedar House and Swan House were built late in the 18th century; both are three storey buildings of brown brick. Their windows are double-hung sashes with flat arches. Two more three-storey Grade II 18th century houses are those named Thamescote and Magnolia;
4465-568: The High Road in the centre of Chiswick is the Glebe Estate, consisting of small terraced houses built in the 1870s on glebe land once owned by the local church, and now a desirable place to live. Chiswick is in the W4 postcode district of the London post town , which in a tribute to its ancient parish includes Bedford Park and Acton Green , mostly within the London Borough of Ealing. Some of
4560-481: The Italian poet and revolutionary Ugo Foscolo , the painters Vincent van Gogh and Camille Pissarro , the novelist E. M. Forster , the rock musicians Pete Townshend , John Entwistle , and Phil Collins , the stage director Peter Brook , and the actress Imogen Poots . Chiswick was first recorded c. 1000 as the Old English Ceswican meaning "Cheese Farm"; the riverside area of Duke's Meadows
4655-605: The Tabard pub but a separate business, is known for new writing and experimental work. The Sanderson Factory in Barley Mow Passage, now known as Voysey House, was designed by the architect Charles Voysey in 1902. It is built in white glazed brick, with Staffordshire blue bricks (now painted black) forming horizontal bands, the plinth, and surrounds for door and window openings, and dressings in Portland stone . It
4750-472: The artist Julian Trevelyan entitled Chiswick Mall . Around 1928, the musician James Brown made an oil painting entitled Chiswick Mall from Island House ; he had been tutored in oil painting by the impressionist painter Lucien Pissarro , who lived for a time in Chiswick. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a 1940 pen and ink and watercolour painting by the London Group artist Walter Bayes with
4845-405: The brewer Henry Smith, churchwarden of St Nicholas, Chiswick. Christ Church, Turnham Green is an early Victorian Gothic building of flint with stone dressings. The main part of the building, by George Gilbert Scott and W. B. Moffat, is from 1843; the chancel and northeast chapel were added in 1887 by J. Brooks. Chiswick's principal Roman Catholic church, Our Lady of Grace and St Edward (
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#17327917383494940-514: The brewery and rope and timber for the local boatbuilders . Inside, it has a handsome staircase; its sitting room is equipped with two fireplaces and decorated above with a frieze in plasterwork showing bowls of punch . At a later date it was given a stucco facade with a six-panelled door under a fanlight, and double-hung sash windows with surrounds. Of the same period is the Grade II pair of three-storey brown brick houses, Lingard House, with
5035-477: The buildings at Staveley Road had to be closed as they were made of brittle high alumina cement . The school was forced to operate with a "village of huts"; Hands maintained school morale with a production of The Gondoliers by Gilbert and Sullivan . He retired the headship in 1975 after suffering a series of heart attacks. Dame Helen Metcalf was the school's headteacher from 1988 to 2001, providing strong and emotionally intelligent leadership. Sometime after 1978
5130-461: The conservation area describes it as "a remnant of a riverside village for wealthy landowners". The name "Mall" was most likely added in the early 19th century after the model of the fashionable Pall Mall in Westminster . British History Online states that the prebendal manor house and its medieval neighbours must have been reached by a road that ran eastwards for an unknown distance beside
5225-479: The creation of refuges worldwide. Chiswick is home to the Arts Educational Schools in Bath Road. The house used for filming the comedy show Taskmaster , a former groundskeeper's cottage, is just off Great Chertsey Road, near Chiswick Bridge . Chiswick is situated at the start of the North Circular Road (A406), South Circular Road (A205) and the M4 motorway , the latter providing
5320-474: The first place "where the relaxed, informal mood of a market town or village was adopted for a complete speculatively built suburb". In 1877 the speculator Jonathan Carr hired Shaw as his estate architect. Shaw's house designs, in the Queen Anne Revival style with red brick, roughcast , decorative gables , and both oriel and dormer windows , gave the impression of great variety using only
5415-415: The grand houses on Chiswick Mall is the Grade I Walpole House . Parts of it, behind the later facade, were according to the historian of buildings Nikolaus Pevsner constructed late in the Tudor era , whereas the visible parts are late 17th and early 18th century. It has three storeys, of brown bricks with red brick dressings. The front door is in a porch with Corinthian pilasters standing on plinths; above
5510-418: The great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton’s academy for young ladies, on Chiswick Mall, a large family coach, with two fat horses in blazing harness, driven by a fat coachman in a three-cornered hat and wig, at the rate of four miles an hour. ... as he pulled the bell at least a score of young heads were seen peering out of the narrow windows of the stately old brick house. Nay, the acute observer might have recognized
5605-443: The house was restored. St Nicholas Church , near the river Thames, has a 15th-century tower, although the remainder of the church was rebuilt by J.L. Pearson in 1882–84. Monuments in the churchyard mark the burial sites of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth and William Kent , the architect and landscape designer; the churchyard also houses a mausoleum (for Philip James de Loutherbourg ) designed by John Soane , and
5700-411: The latter has glazing bars on its windows, with iron balconettes on its second floor. The house called The Osiers was built late in the 18th century but has a newer facade. An early 19th-century pair are the Grade II, three-storey Riverside House and Cygnet House. They are built of brown bricks and have porches with a trellis. Another Grade II house of the same era is the two-story Oak Cottage; it has
5795-660: The little red nose of good-natured Miss Jemima Pinkerton herself, rising over some geranium pots in the window of that lady’s own drawing-room. Henry Cass 's 1955 detective thriller film Breakaway involves a houseboat on Chiswick Mall; the Rolls-Royce driven by 'Duke' Martin ( Tom Conway ) stops in front of the Mill Bakery, now Miller's Court. The 1961 thriller Victim , set in Chiswick, has its barrister protagonist, Melville Farr, played by Dirk Bogarde , living on Chiswick Mall; Melville walks through St Nicholas Churchyard, and meets his wife Laura ( Sylvia Syms ) in front of his house. William Nunez's 2021 The Laureate , about
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#17327917383495890-400: The merchant banker Robin Benson ; over several generations the Benson family designed and then restored the garden. Morton House was built in 1726 of brown bricks. Its garden is listed in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens. Its former owner, Sir Percy Harris , had a relief sculpture depicting the resurrection of the dead made by Edward Bainbridge Copnall for the garden in
5985-463: The most beautiful period mansion blocks in Chiswick, such as Heathfield Court and Arlington Mansions, line the sides of Turnham Green – the site of the Battle of Turnham Green in 1642. Other suburbs of Chiswick include Grove Park (south of the A4, close to Chiswick railway station) and Strand on the Green , a fishing hamlet until the late 18th century. As early as 1896, Bedford Park was advertised as being in Chiswick, though at that time much of it
6080-418: The newer commercial and residential centre around Chiswick High Road. The naturalist Charles John Cornish , who lived in Orford House on Chiswick Mall, wrote in 1902 that the river bank beside Chiswick Eyot had once been a "famous fishery"; he recorded that "perhaps the last" salmon was caught between the eyot and Putney in 1812, and expressed the hope that if the "purification" of the river continued,
6175-448: The north bank of the river Thames in the oldest part of Chiswick in West London, with a row of large houses from the Georgian and Victorian eras overlooking the street on the north side, and their gardens on the other side of the street beside the river and Chiswick Eyot . While the area was once populated by fishermen, boatbuilders and other tradespeople associated with the river, since Early Modern times it has increasingly been
6270-419: The other side of the street, beside the river. St Nicholas Church, Chiswick lies at the western end; the eastern end reaches to Hammersmith . Just to the north of the row of grand houses is Fuller's Brewery , giving the area an industrial context. The street and the gardens partially flood at high water in spring tides . Chiswick Mall forms part of the Old Chiswick conservation area ; the borough's appraisal of
6365-465: The parish formed the Chiswick Urban District . In 1927 it was abolished and its former area was merged with that of Brentford Urban District to form Brentford and Chiswick Urban District . The amalgamated district became a municipal borough in 1932. The borough of Brentford and Chiswick was abolished in 1965, and its former area was transferred to Greater London to form part of the London Borough of Hounslow . With these changes, Chiswick Town Hall
6460-445: The river from the ferry, and that this eventually became Chiswick Mall. In 1470, Robert Stillington , Chancellor of England and bishop of Bath and Wells had a "hospice" with a "great chamber" by the Thames in Chiswick. The vicarage house at the corner of Church Street and Chiswick Mall had been built by 1589–90. The prebendal manor house was extended to accommodate Westminster School in around 1570. There appears to have been
6555-401: The river; from the Early Modern period, the wealthy built imposing riverside houses on Chiswick Mall . Having good communications with London, Chiswick became a popular country retreat and part of the suburban growth of London in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was made the Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick in 1932 and part of Greater London in 1965, when it merged into
6650-436: The rocket and many more suffered damage. There is a memorial where the rocket fell on Staveley Road, and a War Memorial at the east end of Turnham Green. Refuge was founded in 1971 in Chiswick, as the modern world's first safe house for women and children escaping domestic violence. By the start of the 21st century, Chiswick had become an affluent suburb. Chiswick St Nicholas was an ancient, and later civil, parish in
6745-404: The salmon might return. Chiswick Mall is a waterfront street on the north bank of the river in the oldest part of Chiswick . It consists of a row of "grand houses" providing "Old Chiswick's main architectural distinction"; the street has changed relatively little since 1918. The houses, mainly from the Georgian and Victorian eras , overlook the street on the north side; their gardens are on
6840-526: The same site for over 350 years. The original brewery was in the gardens of Bedford House in Chiswick Mall. A weekly farmers' market is held every Sunday by Grove Park Farm House, Duke's Meadows. A monthly flower market is held on the first Sunday of each month on Chiswick High Road in the old market place, now mostly used as a car park, near the Hogarth statue. An antiques market is to be held on
6935-550: The same title. Mary Fedden , the first woman to teach painting at the Royal College of Art , made an oil on board painting called Chiswick Mall of a woman feeding geese just in front of Chiswick Eyot. In English literature, the street features in the first chapter of Thackeray's 1847–48 novel Vanity Fair . The book begins: While the present century was in its teens, and on one sunshiny morning in June, there drove up to
7030-419: The school was renamed Chiswick Community School; the name reverted to Chiswick School when it became an academy on 1 March 2012. Chiswick Chiswick ( / ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / CHIZ -ik ) is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow , West London , England. It contains Hogarth's House , the former residence of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth ; Chiswick House ,
7125-468: The second Sunday of each month, and a "Cheese and Provisions" market with 23 stalls on the third and fourth Sundays of each month in the same area, so there will in effect be a weekly market event on the High Road once again. Chiswick House was designed by the Third Earl of Burlington , and built for him, in 1726–29 as an extension to an earlier Jacobean house (subsequently demolished in 1788); it
7220-507: The site of the old Chiswick Empire . Between 1964 and 1966, the 18-storey IBM headquarters was built above Gunnersbury station , designed to accommodate 1500 people. It became the home of the British Standards Institution in 1994. Chiswick has an annual book festival. Chiswick is home to the Griffin Brewery , where Fuller, Smith & Turner and its predecessor companies brewed their prize-winning ales on
7315-478: The station. Chiswick railway station on the Hounslow Loop Line is served by a regular South Western Railway service to London Waterloo via Clapham Junction . The North London line crosses Chiswick (north-south); London Overground stations are Gunnersbury and South Acton . Chiswick's local rugby union teams include Chiswick RFC, formerly Old Meadonians RFC. The team plays league games on
7410-471: The tomb of Josiah Wedgwood 's business partner, Thomas Bentley , designed by Thomas Scheemakers. One of Oliver Cromwell 's daughters, Mary Fauconberg, lived at Sutton Court and is buried in the churchyard. Enduring legend has it that the body of Oliver Cromwell was also interred with her, though as the Fauconbergs did not move to Sutton Court until 15 years after his disinterment, it is more likely he
7505-516: The war poet Robert Graves ( Tom Hughes ), features a barge on Chiswick Mall. The scene in the 1992 Merchant Ivory film of E. M. Forster 's Howards End , where Margaret ( Emma Thompson ) and Helen ( Helena Bonham Carter ) stroll with Henry ( Anthony Hopkins ) in the evening, was shot on Chiswick Mall. Series One of the BBC's The Apprentice was filmed in the first-floor drawing room "Galleon Wing" extension, of Sir Nigel Playfair 's Said House;
7600-559: The west end of Chiswick Mall . The shipyard built the first naval destroyer , HMS Daring of the Daring class , in 1893. To cater for the increasing size of warships, Thornycroft moved its shipyard to Southampton in 1909. In 1822, the Royal Horticultural Society leased 33 acres (13.4 ha) of land in the area south of the High Road between what are now Sutton Court Road and Duke's Avenue. This site
7695-794: Was added after the First World War by Canon Egan as a war memorial. The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Most Holy Mother of God and the Holy Royal Martyrs with its characteristic blue onion dome with gold stars is in Harvard Road. The Russian Orthodox church built it in 1998. Chiswick Mall is a waterfront street on the north bank of the River Thames in the oldest part of Chiswick near St Nicholas Church. It consists mainly of some thirty "grand houses" from
7790-481: Was at 414 Chiswick High Road. It had 2,140 seats, and staged music hall entertainment, plays, reviews, opera, ballet and an annual Christmas pantomime . The Q Theatre (1924 to 1959) was a small theatre opposite Kew Bridge station. It staged the first works of Terence Rattigan and William Douglas-Home , and many of its plays went on to the West End. The 96-seat Tabard Theatre (1985) in Bath Road, upstairs from
7885-475: Was born in Chiswick in 1872; his father, John Isaac Thornycroft , had founded the Chiswick-based John I. Thornycroft & Company shipbuilding company in 1864, which Thornycroft later joined and developed. The artist Montague Dawson , regarded as one of the best 20th-century painters of the sea , was born in Chiswick in 1895. Chiswick Mall Chiswick Mall is a waterfront street on
7980-513: Was buried at St Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswick, where his monument incorrectly states he was 50, not 49. In 1871 his remains were taken to Italy and given a national hero's burial in Santa Croce, Florence alongside Michelangelo and Galileo , while his monument in Chiswick was lavishly refurbished. The inventor of the electric telegraph , Francis Ronalds , lived on Chiswick Lane from 1833 to 1852. Another engineer, John Edward Thornycroft
8075-549: Was in Acton . Chiswick High Road contains a mix of retail shops, restaurants, food outlets and office and hotel space. The wide streets encourage cafes, pubs and restaurants to provide pavement seating. Lying between the offices at the Golden Mile Great West Road and Hammersmith , office developments and warehouse conversions to offices began from the 1960s. The first in 1961 was 414 Chiswick High Road on
8170-418: Was initially a temporary iron building from 1876 on Chiswick High Road facing Chiswick Lane. The current building's foundation stone was laid in 1879 and consecrated in 1880. It was designed, along with much of Bedford Park, by Norman Shaw , and was called "a very lovely church" by John Betjeman . It is an Anglo-Catholic church, and was attacked on the day it was consecrated for "Popish and Pagan mummeries" by
8265-452: Was later inherited by Thomas Walpole , for whom it is now named. From 1785 to 1794 it served as a boarding house; one of its lodgers was the Irish politician Daniel O'Connell . In the early 19th century it became a boys' school, its pupils including William Makepeace Thackeray . The actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree owned the house at the start of the 20th century. It was then bought by
8360-598: Was on Netheravon Road (to the north), with a second entrance on the Mall. By 1936 the buildings were obsolete, and Mason's nephew, also called Dan Mason, laid the foundation stone for a more modern hospital on 29 February 1936; the new building was finished by 1940. In 1943 it was requisitioned by the Ministry of Health, and it became the Chiswick Maternity Hospital. This closed in 1975. It was then used for accommodation for Charing Cross Hospital, and as
8455-595: Was once home to the Chequered Flag garage and its associated motor racing team. In the 18th century, the poet Alexander Pope , author of The Rape of the Lock , lived in Chiswick between 1716 and 1719, in the building which is now the Mawson Arms at the corner of Mawson Lane. The actor Charles Holland was born in Chiswick in 1733. The artist William Hogarth bought the house now known as Hogarth's House in 1749, lived there until his death in 1764, and
8550-458: Was one of 35 major centres identified in the statutory planning document of Greater London, the London Plan of 2008. Chiswick occupies a meander of the River Thames , 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Charing Cross . The district is built up towards the north with more open space in the south, including the grounds of Chiswick House and Duke's Meadows . Chiswick has one main shopping area,
8645-655: Was originally a wallpaper printing works, now used as office space. It is a Grade II* listed building . It faces the main factory building and was once joined to it by a bridge across the road. It was Voysey's only industrial building, and is considered an "important Arts and Crafts factory building". In 1971 Erin Pizzey established the world's first domestic violence refuge at 2 Belmont Terrace, naming her organisation " Chiswick Women's Aid ". The local council attempted to evict Pizzey's residents, but were unsuccessful and she soon established more such premises elsewhere, inspiring
8740-497: Was part of a rural riverside village until late in the nineteenth century; the 1865 Ordnance Survey map shows orchards to the north and west of Old Chiswick. The area to the north had become built up with streets of terraced housing by 1913, as shown on the Ordnance Survey map of that date. The Great West Road crossed Brentford in 1925 and Chiswick in the 1950s, passing immediately north of Old Chiswick and severing it from
8835-666: Was purchased by the local council, who developed it as a recreational centre. A promenade and bandstand were built, and the meadows are still used for sport with a rugby club, football pitches, hockey club, several rowing clubs and a golf club. In recent years a local conservation charity, the Dukes Meadows Trust, has undertaken extensive restoration work, which saw a long-term project of a children's water play area opened in August 2006. The Gunnersbury Triangle local nature reserve , opposite Chiswick Park Underground station,
8930-573: Was reburied at their home at Newburgh Priory. Private Frederick Hitch VC , hero of Rorke's Drift , is also buried there. The church of St Michael, Sutton Court was designed by W. D. Caröe in 1908–1909. It is a red brick building on Elmwood road, in Tudor style. St Paul's Church, Grove Park is a Gothic style stone building designed by H. Currey. It was built largely at the Duke of Devonshire's expense in 1872. St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park
9025-465: Was used for its fruit tree collection and its first school of horticulture, and housed its first flower shows. The area was reduced to 10 acres (4.0 ha) in the 1870s, and the lease was terminated when the Society's garden at Wisley , Surrey, was set up in 1904. Some of the original pear trees still grow in the gardens of houses built on the site. The population of Chiswick grew almost tenfold during
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