25-722: Staveley Road is a road in the Grove Park district of Chiswick in the London Borough of Hounslow . It was the site of the first successful V-2 missile attack against Britain. Staveley Road was built between 1927 and 1931 as part of the Chiswick Park Estate. On Friday 8 September 1944, a V-2 launched from Wassenaar in Holland, by 485 Artillerie Abteilung at 6.37pm, landed in Staveley Road near
50-461: A British artist known for religious art. St Michael's Church on Elmwood Road was designed by the architects W. D. Caröe & Herbert Passmore; it was founded in 1908 and completed in 1909. It is described by Nikolaus Pevsner in The Buildings of England as "one of Caröe's most interesting churches in outer London". The building was funded by the sale of St Michael, Burleigh Street, on
75-534: A later house from at least 1441–1443. Others who used the house included Sir Thomas More , Lord High Chancellor to Henry VIII , in 1524; the speaker of the House of Commons Chaloner Chute , in 1639; and Thomas Belasyse, Viscount Fauconberg in 1675; his wife, Mary , Oliver Cromwell 's daughter, lived in the house until 1713, and is buried in St Nicholas Church, Chiswick . By 1589 the great house
100-551: Is an area in the south of Chiswick , now in the borough of Hounslow , West London . It lies in the meander of the Thames occupied by Duke's Meadows park. Historically, the area belonged to one of the four historic villages in modern Chiswick, Little Sutton . It was long protected from building by the regular flooding of the low-lying land by the River Thames , remaining as orchards, open fields, and riverside marshland until
125-507: Is no tower or tall spire. It has instead a fleche (a small spire) atop a mock belfry at the western end. Inside, the church has a high altar from St Margaret's , Birmingham , to a design by Lord Norton , and a large 16th-century Florentine painting of the transfiguration of Christ . The stained glass in the apse is modern, by M. E. Aldrich Rope (1891-1988). The Stations of the Cross were painted by Enid Chadwick (1902–1987) of Walsingham,
150-461: The Bishop of London and St Paul's Cathedral . It consisted of about half a square mile of arable fields and small areas of meadow and woods. In 1458 it had its own watermill . It was a Crown holding in the 14th and 15 centuries; in 1396, king Richard II built a royal residence here, complete with a chapel, a hall, and a moat . The house was used by kings Henry IV and Henry V ; Henry VI used
175-525: The 1880s. Development was stimulated by the arrival of the railway in 1849; Grove Park Hotel followed in 1867, soon followed by housing. The architecture of the area includes houses in British Queen Anne Revival style, while the station building is Italianate . The 1872 neo-Gothic St Paul's Church is built in irregular blocks of stone. It has a small fleche instead of a spire, as well as an apse at its eastern end. St Michael's Church
200-407: The 1890s; it was demolished in 1928 and replaced by the houses on the west side of Kinnaird Avenue. The neo-Gothic St Paul's Church, Grove Park Road, was designed in 1872 by Henry Currey and built at the expense of William Cavendish, 7th Duke of Devonshire to provide a church for the newly built Grove Park estate. It is made of irregular blocks of stone and has an apse at its eastern end; there
225-682: The Queen's Head, documented in 1722 and 1862 (if they were the same building). It was simply named Sutton in 1181; this developed into "Sutton Chiswick" or "Sutton by Chiswick" in the 14th and 15th centuries; "Sutton Beauregard" in the 1450s, for the view south over the river to the Surrey hills when the manor (later called Sutton Court) belonged to the Crown; and finally Little Sutton by 1590. By 1801 there were 14 houses in Little Sutton. One building,
250-542: The Strand (in central London). Pevsner calls the exterior "picturesque"; it is in red brick, its buttresses joined by tiled arches, and with dormers in the roof. The crossing point of the roof is marked by a turret with shingles and tiles; on the north of the crossing is "a curiously domestic excrescence" for ventilation and the church's belfry . The windows have decorative curving stone tracery in "free flamboyant Gothic" style; they are recessed under tiled arches. Inside,
275-828: The V-2, when being bugged by MI19 , so disclosing the rocket's propensity on 22 March 1943 - this was the first occasion that the British knew. Fritz Lustig , father of Radio 4 's Robin Lustig , was one of the translators. RV Jones received most of his information on the V2 from the French spy Jeannie Rousseau . The general public was not notified about the existence of V-2 rockets until 10 November 1944. 51°28′58″N 0°15′54″W / 51.4828°N 0.265°W / 51.4828; -0.265 Grove Park, Chiswick Grove Park
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#1732772240868300-452: The area was still rural until late in the 19th century. Little Sutton, one of the four constituent villages of Chiswick, was about the centre of the parish of Chiswick at that time; Strand-on-the-Green lies to the west, Old Chiswick to the east, and Turnham Green to the north. It is now part of the Grove Park district. Sutton Manor is recorded from 1181. The lands of Sutton and Chiswick had by then already been given as an endowment for
325-468: The font, lectern, and pulpit were brought from St Michael on the Strand, while the 1911 choir stalls were designed by Caröe. The south chapel's roof has a decoration made by Antony Lloyd in 1932. The stained glass windows in the south chapel and the sanctuary were made by Horace Wilkinson between 1914 and 1925. Just to the east of the Grove Park area is Chiswick House , its gardens a public park. In
350-543: The gardens of Chiswick House . Little Sutton, Chiswick Little Sutton was one of the four constituent medieval villages of Chiswick , in what is now West London, and the site of a royal manor house, Sutton Manor, later Sutton Court. The great house was accompanied by a small hamlet without a church of its own. The manor was used by four kings of England, Richard II , Henry IV , Henry V , and Henry VI , and Mary , Oliver Cromwell 's daughter, lived there. The name survives in local street and house names. Much of
375-470: The house was remodelled as Sutton Court; it stood to the south of the former moated house, at what is now the corner of Sutton Court Road and Fauconberg Road. In 1845 it served as a boy's boarding school, run by Frederick Tappenden. It was demolished and replaced by the "Sutton Court Mansions" block of flats in 1905. Little Sutton was never more than a small hamlet without a church; by 1703 there were some almshouses, and there appears to have been an inn named
400-530: The junction with Burlington Lane, killing three people (including a three-year-old girl), and injuring nineteen. The crater was thirty feet across. Earlier that day at 8.39am, a V2 had hit Maisons-Alfort in France, where six people were killed; the V2 had been launched from Petites-Tailles, near Houffalize , in south-east Belgium by Lehr und Versuchsbatterie 444 . Eleven houses were completely destroyed, and another fifteen had to be extensively rebuilt. The area at
425-680: The north. A house stood on the site of Grove House from 1412; it was replaced by 1705 with, according to a contemporary observer, "a spacious regular modern building ... pleasantly situated by the Thames side. Behind it are gardens by some said to be the finest in England". Grove House was owned by the Barker family at that time; from 1745 it belonged to the Earl of Grantham and then to an eccentric animal-lover, Humphrey Morice. The Duke of Devonshire bought
450-501: The south of the peninsula is the open space of Duke's Meadows , though much of its area is now taken up with private sports grounds and allotments . Just beside the railway bridge is the small Duke's Hollow nature reserve, which is allowed to flood at high spring tides. In the First World War, a pleasure lake that had belonged to Grove House, at the southern end of Hartington Road, was turned into Cubitt's Yacht Basin; during
475-428: The time had been partly evacuated. The explosion could be heard six miles away in central London. Within an hour of the explosion, government officials were arriving at the scene. The explosion has been shown in the 2015 production Hitler's Space Rocket , produced with ZDF of Germany, and in the 1965 film Operation Crossbow . General Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma discreetly mentioned to General Ludwig Crüwell about
500-513: The war it made cast concrete barges to carry ammunition. When the war ended it was used to moor houseboats. The actor John Thaw lived on Grove Park Road for many years, while the British Army Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein , lived on Bolton Road as a teenager. The poet Dylan Thomas lived in the vicarage of St Paul's Church in the 1940s. St Paul's vicarage
525-430: The whole estate in the 1840s, reshaping Grove House without its third storey, and letting it to tenants. The building of the railways including Chiswick railway station in 1849 spurred development. Grove Park Hotel was built in 1867, soon followed by housing. Growth was slow but steady, with residential development accompanied by small-scale industry such as soap making. Robert William Shipway bought Grove House in
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#1732772240868550-409: Was accompanied by farm buildings, a malthouse , and a gatehouse, with 3 acres of gardens and orchards. By 1674 the walled garden extended to 12 acres, and by 1691 the gardens included a bowling green and a maze . The field around the old moated enclosure was called Berry-gates until at least 1818. for "gated burh ", a fortified place; the name survives in the nearby Barrowgate Road. In 1795
575-615: Was designed by W. D. Caröe and Herbert Passmore in 1908 in a domestic style in buttressed red brick with tiled arches and with dormer windows in its roof, while the windows use neo-Gothic stone tracery. Famous residents of Grove Park include the actor John Thaw , the soldier Bernard Montgomery , and the poet Dylan Thomas . St Paul's vicarage has repeatedly been used as a film set, including in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy , Killing Eve , Lewis , Grantchester , and The Theory of Everything . Much of Grove Park
600-424: Was still rural until late in the 19th century; the risk of flooding from the tidal Thames protected it from building. One of the four constituent villages of Chiswick, Little Sutton , was in the Grove Park area, about the centre of the parish of Chiswick at that time; two other villages, Strand-on-the-Green and Old Chiswick , lie just to the west and to the east of Grove Park, respectively, with Turnham Green to
625-480: Was used in the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy of John Le Carre 's novel, as was the BBC drama series Killing Eve , and the television detective series Lewis and Grantchester . The vicarage's garden was used "extensively" in the 2014 film about the physicist Stephen Hawking , The Theory of Everything . The Beatles filmed two short promotional films on 20 May 1966, ‘ Paperback Writer ’ and ‘ Rain ’, in
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