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Chiswick

Chiswick (: ) is an affluent area of West London

West London

West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with London Heathrow Airport and many of its associated businesses....
, located west of Charing Cross

Charing Cross

Charing Cross denotes the junction of the Strand, London, Whitehall and Cockspur Street, just south of Trafalgar Square in City of Westminster within Central London, England....
, which covers the eastern part of the London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow

The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in West London, England....
.

Chiswick High Road contains a mix of retail, restaurants, food outlets and expanding office and hotel space. The wide streets encourage cafes and restaurants to provide pavement seating. Chiswick is home to the Griffin Brewery, where Fuller, Smith & Turner brew their prize-winning ales. In 2007, Chiswick was voted the 8th most expensive place to live in the UK.

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Chiswick (: ) is an affluent area of West London

West London

Charing Cross

London Borough of Hounslow

William Hogarth

William Hogarth was a major England painting, Printmaking, pictorial satire, Social criticism and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art....
lived in the area, and is buried in St Nicholas churchyard.

Etymology

The name "Chiswick" is of Old English

Old English language

Old English is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written in parts of what are now England and south-eastern Scotland between the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century....
origin meaning "Cheese Farm" and originates from the riverside meadows and farms that are thought to have supported an annual cheese fair on Dukes Meadows up until the 18th century. Chiswick was first recorded c.

Circa

Circa means "in approximately", generally referring to a year. It is widely used in genealogy and historical writing, when the dates of events are approximately known....
1000 as Ceswican.

History

Chiswick grew up as a fishing village around St. Nicholas church on Church Street, but the name Chiswick later became used for a wider area, formed originally by merging the four villages of Chiswick, Strand-on-the-Green

Strand-on-the-Green

Strand-on-the-Green is an area of Chiswick in west London....
, Little Sutton and Turnham Green

Turnham Green

Turnham Green is a public park situated on Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London. It is separated in two by a small road. Christ Church stands on the eastern half of the green....
. By 1815, Chiswick parish included all the area bounded by the loop of the Thames, the High Road west of Turnham Green, the north side of Chiswick Common and Bath Road to Goldhawk Road. In 1896, "Bedford Park

Bedford Park, London

Bedford Park is a suburban development in Chiswick in London, England. It forms a conservation area that is mostly within the London Borough of Ealing, with a small part to the east within the London Borough of Hounslow....
, Chiswick" was advertised, which at that time was partly in Acton Urban District

Municipal Borough of Acton

Acton was a local government district in Middlesex, England from 1865 to 1965.In 1865 the Local Government Act 1858 was adopted by the parish of Acton, London, and a twelve-member local board of health was formed to govern the area....
.

For centuries fishermen and watermen have used the waterfront of old Chiswick to deliver goods to riverside businesses and the surrounding area. By the early nineteenth century the fishing industry in and around Chiswick was declining as the growth of industry and the invention of the flush toilet were causing pollution in the river. Fish began to die out and the river became unsuitable as a spawning ground. Locks upstream also made the river impassable by migratory fish such as salmon and shad.

Fuller, Smith & Turner P.L.C. and its predecessor companies have been brewing beer on its Chiswick site for over 350 years. The original brewery was in the gardens of Bedford House in Chiswick Mall, and these premises later expanded to the present site nearby. The company brews real ales

Cask ale

Cask ale or cask-conditioned beer is the term for filtration and pasteurization beer which is conditioned and served from a cask without additional nitrogen or carbon dioxide pressure....
and owns public houses.

From the 18th century onwards the High Road became built up with inns and large houses. Today the High Road is a busy shopping street with many cafes, restaurants and several 19th century public houses.

In 1864, John Isaac Thornycroft

John Isaac Thornycroft

Sir John Isaac Thornycroft was the founder of the Thornycroft shipbuilding company. A member of the Thornycroft family, he was the son of Mary Thornycroft, the sculpture....
, founder of the John I. Thornycroft & Company

John I. Thornycroft & Company

John I. Thornycroft & Company Limited, usually known simply as Thornycroft was a United Kingdom shipbuilding firm started by John Isaac Thornycroft in the 19th century....
shipbuilding company, established a shipbuilding yard at Church Wharf at the west end of Chiswick Mall. Steam yachts were built to innovative designs, followed by torpedo boats. Torpedo boat destroyers were then built. These could reach up to a speed of 30 knots.The ships were up to 225 feet long, causing difficulties in movement under the bridges down the Thames. For this reason, the shipbuilding facilities were transferred to Woolston near Southampton

Southampton

Southampton is the largest City status in the United Kingdom in the ceremonial county of Hampshire, on the south coast of England, and is sited around 100 km south-west of London and 30 km north-west of Portsmouth....
in 1904, after which the Chiswick yard was gradually run down. The Thornycroft Steam Wagon Co. was formed in the late 1890s, at the Homefield Motor Works in Hogarth Lane, now the A4 road, close to Church Wharf. Buses and trucks were the main vehicles produced. The works closed in 1908.

In 1822, the Royal Horticultural Society

Royal Horticultural Society

The Royal Horticultural Society was founded in 1804 in London, England as the Horticultural Society of London, and gained its present name in a Royal Charter granted in 1861 by Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha....
leased of land in the area between the now Sutton Court Road and Duke’s Avenue. This site was used for its fruit tree collection and its first school of horticulture, and housed its first flower shows. The area was reduced to in the 1870s, and the lease was terminated when the Society’s garden at Wisley

RHS Garden, Wisley

The Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisley in the England county of Surrey south of London, is one of the three most visited paid gardens in the United Kingdom alongside Kew Gardens and Alnwick Castle#Alnwick Garden....
, Surrey, was set up in 1904. Some of the original pear trees still grow in the gardens of houses built on the site.

Chiswick had two well-known theatres in the 20th century. The Chiswick Empire (1912 to 1959) was at 414 Chiswick High Road. It had 2,140 seats, and staged music hall

Music hall

Music hall is a form of British theatrical entertainment which was popular between 1850 and 1960. The term can refer to# A particular form of variety show entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and #Speciality Acts....
entertainment, plays, review, opera

Opera

Opera is an Performing arts in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work which combines a text and a musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition....
, ballet

Ballet

Ballet is a formalized type of performative dance, the origins of which date lay in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France courts, and which was further developed in England, Italy, and Russia as a concert dance form....
and an annual Christmas pantomime

Pantomime

Pantomime is a musical-comedy theatrical production traditionally found in Great Britain, Canada, Jamaica, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Zimbabwe, Republic of Ireland, Gibraltar and Republic of Malta, and is usually performed during the Christmas and New Year season....
. The Q Theatre (1924 to 1959) was a small theatre opposite Kew Bridge station. It staged the first works of Terence Rattigan

Terence Rattigan

Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was one of England's most popular 20th century dramatists. He was born in Kensington, London of Irish people extraction, educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Oxford, and his plays are generally situated within an upper middle class background....
and William Douglas-Home

William Douglas-Home

William Douglas-Home was a tank officer in World War II who was imprisoned for refusing to obey orders, and who later became a successful writer and dramatist....
and many of its plays went on to the West End.

Dukes Meadows stands on land formerly owned by the Duke of Devonshire

Duke of Devonshire

Duke of Devonshire is a title in the Peerage of England held by members of the aristocracy House of Cavendish family. This branch of the Cavendish family has been one of the richest and most influential aristocratic families in England since the 16th century, and have been rivalled in political influence perhaps only by the Earl of Derby and...
. In the 1920s, it 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.

Chiswick is the birthplace of the modern domestic violence refuge movement, with the first shelter established by Erin Pizzey

Erin Pizzey

Erin Patria Margaret Pizzey is a British family care activist and a best-selling novelist. She became internationally famous for having started one of the first Women's Refuges in the modern world in 1971....
in 1971.

During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global military conflict which involved a Participants in World War II, including all of the great powers, organised into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War II and the Axis powers....
, Chiswick suffered a number of bombing raids. W.P. Roe’s book pages 80 to 90 notes areas of damage due to 50 bombing raids in late 1940 to early 1941, and another 5 in 1944. Both incendiary and high explosive bombs were used, and there was also damage from falling anti-aircraft shells that had not exploded as intended. From June 1944, V-1 flying bomb

V-1 flying bomb

The Fieseler Fi 103, better known as V-1...
s started to fall; Mr. Roe lists 14 of these. The first V-2 Rocket

V-2 rocket

The V-2 rocket was the first ballistic missile and first man-made object to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight, the progenitor of all modern rockets....
to hit London fell on Chiswick in September 1944, killing three people and causing extensive damage to surrounding trees and buildings. There is a memorial where the rocket fell on Staveley Road. There is also a War Memorial at the east end of Turnham Green

Turnham Green

Turnham Green is a public park situated on Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London. It is separated in two by a small road. Christ Church stands on the eastern half of the green....
.

Governance

Civic history

Chiswick St Nicholas was an ancient, and later civil, parish in the Ossulstone

Ossulstone

Ossulstone was an ancient Hundred in the south east of the county of Middlesex, England. Its area has been entirely absorbed by the growth of London; and now corresponds to the part of Inner London that is north of the River Thames and, from Outer London, parts of the London boroughs of Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Haringey and Hounslow....
hundred of Middlesex

Middlesex

Middlesex , from the Old English Middelseaxe , is one of the 39 Historic counties of England of England and the List of counties of England by area in 1831....
. In 1878 the parish gained a triangle of land in the east which had formed a detached part of Ealing

Ealing

Ealing is a town in the London Borough of Ealing. It is a suburban development situated 7.7 miles west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan area centres identified in the London Plan and is often referred to as the "Queen of the Suburbs"....
. From 1894 to 1927 the parish formed the Chiswick Urban District

Chiswick Urban District

Chiswick was a local government district in the county of Middlesex, England from 1858 to 1927. It was part of the London postal district and the Metropolitan Police District....
. In 1927 it was abolished and its former area was merged with that of Brentford Urban District

Brentford Urban District

Brentford was a local government district in the county of Middlesex, England from 1874 to 1927.Brentford Local Government District was created in 1874 under the Local Government Act 1858 and covered the civil parish of New Brentford and the chapelry of Old Brentford in the parish of Ealing....
to form Brentford and Chiswick Urban District

Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick

Brentford and Chiswick was a local government district of Middlesex, England from 1927 to 1965.It was created an urban district in 1927 by a merger of the former area of the Brentford Urban District and the 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

Greater London

Greater London is the top-level administrative subdivision covering London, England. The administrative area was officially created in 1965 and covers the City of London , the City of Westminster and the other 31 London boroughs....
to form part of the London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow

The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in West London, England....
. With these changes, Chiswick Town Hall

Chiswick Town Hall

Chiswick Town Hall stands on Heathfield Terrace, Chiswick, London, facing Turnham Green....
is no longer the local government centre, but is still used for some council services.

Political representation

The constituency of Brentford and Chiswick

Brentford and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency)

Brentford and Chiswick was a United Kingdom constituencies centred on the Brentford and Chiswick districts of West London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the British House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
was created in 1918, and existed until 1974, when it was replaced by the present constituency of Brentford and Isleworth. Ann Keen

Ann Keen

Ann Lloyd Keen is a Labour Party Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom. She represents Brentford and Isleworth , and was first elected at the United Kingdom general election, 1997, defeating Nirj Deva....
, a member of the Labour Party

Labour Party (UK)

The Labour Party is a political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century, it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the Left-wing politics in England, Scotland and Wales, but not Northern Ireland, where it has only recently organised again....
, has been the MP

Member of Parliament

A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative of the voters to a parliament. In many countries the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a unique title, such as senate, and thus also have unique titles for its members, such as senators....
since 1997.

In local representation, Chiswick is located in the South West constituency

South West (London Assembly constituency)

South West is a constituency represented in the London Assembly. It has been represented, since its creation in 2000, by Tony Arbour, a Conservative Party from Richmond upon Thames....
in the London Assembly

London Assembly

The London Assembly is an elected body, part of the Greater London Authority, that scrutinises the activities of the Mayor of London and has the power, with a two-thirds majority, to amend the Mayor's annual budget....
. Since 2000, the constituency has been represented by Tony Arbour

Tony Arbour

Anthony Francis Arbour Justice of the Peace , commonly known as Tony Arbour, is a British Conservative Party politician, a London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and member of the London Assembly representing South West ....
, a member of the Conservative Party

Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, more commonly known as the Conservative Party, is a conservative political party in the United Kingdom....
.

Geography

Places adjoining Chiswick are:

Acton
Acton, London

Acton is a place in west London, England situated west of Charing Cross. At the time of the United Kingdom Census 2001, Acton, comprising the wards of East Acton, Acton Central, South Acton and Southfield, had a population of 53,689 people....
Shepherd's Bush
Shepherd's Bush

Shepherd's Bush is a district of west London in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, situated 4.9 miles west of Charing Cross. Although it is primarily residential in character, its focus is the shopping area of Shepherds Bush Green, which has a small shopping centre with a supermarket, cinema and gym, and a large number of small a...
Hammersmith
Hammersmith

Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, approximately 5 miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames....
Barnes
Mortlake
Mortlake

Mortlake is a district of London, England and part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes, London with East Sheen inland to the south....
Kew
Kew

Kew is a place in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London.Kew is best known for being the home of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ....
Brentford
Brentford

Brentford is a suburb of the London Borough of Hounslow at the confluence of the River Thames and the River Brent in West London, situated 8 miles west south-west of Charing Cross....

Chiswick is included in the W postcode area of the London postal district

London postal district

The London postal district is the area in England, currently of 241 square miles, to which mail addressed to the LONDON post town is delivered....
. Additionally, the southern part of the Southfield ward of the London Borough of Ealing

London Borough of Ealing

The London Borough of Ealing is an Outer London London borough in West London.The London Borough of Ealing borders the London Borough of Hillingdon to the west, the London Borough of Harrow and the London Borough of Brent to the north, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham to the east and the London Borough of Hounslow to the south....
including most of Bedford Park

Bedford Park, London

Bedford Park is a suburban development in Chiswick in London, England. It forms a conservation area that is mostly within the London Borough of Ealing, with a small part to the east within the London Borough of Hounslow....
, is within the W4 postcode district, which is associated with Chiswick.

Demography

The population of the parish of Chiswick from 1801 to 1951 is as follows.

Year	1801	1811	1821	1831	1841	1851	1861	1871	1881	1891	1901	1911	1921	1931	1941	1951
Population	3,235	3,892	4,236	4,994	5,811	6,303	6,505	8,508	15,975	21,963	29,809	38,697	40,938	42,246	n/a	41,207

The parish occupied in 1801, in 1881 and in 1951.

2001 Census

The population of the London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow

The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in West London, England....
electoral wards which correspond to Chiswick is given below.

Electoral ward	All people	Males	Females
Chiswick Homefields	10,290	4,942	5,348
Chiswick Riverside	10,935	5,422	5,513
Turnham Green	10,184	4,839	5,345
Total	31,409	15,203	16,206

The percentage of people in the 3 White ethnic groups was 85%, with the remaining 15% being spread across the twelve other groups. 62.9% of those surveyed stated they were Christians, 27.7% had no religion or did not state their religion, and the remainder were spread across other religions. 2.4% were classified as "Economically active, unemployed".

Architecture and development

The population of Chiswick grew almost tenfold during the 19th century, and the built environment is a mixture of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian.

Chiswick House

Chiswick House

Chiswick House is a neo-Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow, England....
was designed by the Third Earl of Burlington

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington and 4th Earl of Cork Privy Council of Great Britain , born in Yorkshire, England was the son of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington....
, and built for him, in 1726–9 as an extension to an earlier Jacobean

Jacobean

Jacobean indicates the period of History of England that coincides with the reign of James I of England :*Jacobean era*Jacobean architecture...
house (subsequently demolished in 1788); it is considered to be among the finest surviving examples of Palladian architecture in Britain, with superb collections of paintings and furniture. Its surrounding grounds constitute one of the most important historical gardens in England and Wales, and mark a significant step on the road to the picturesque

Picturesque

'Picturesque' is an aesthetic ideal first introduced into English cultural debate in 1782 by William Gilpin in Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc....
aesthetic in garden design.

St. Nicholas church has a 15th century tower, although the remainder of the church was rebuilt by J.L. Pearson in 1882–4. Monuments in the churchyard mark the burial sites of the 18th century English artist William Hogarth

William Hogarth

William Hogarth was a major England painting, Printmaking, pictorial satire, Social criticism and editorial cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art....
—whose house is now a museum known as Hogarth's House

Hogarth's House

Hogarth's House is the former home of the 18th century England artist William Hogarth in Chiswick. It belongs to the London Borough of Hounslow and is open to the public free of charge....
—and William Kent

William Kent

William Kent was an eminent England architect, landscape architect and furniture designer of the early 18th century....
, the architect and landscape designer; the churchyard also houses a mausoleum (for Philip James de Loutherbourg

Philip James de Loutherbourg

Philip James de Loutherbourg, also seen as Philippe-Jacques and Philipp Jakob and with the appellation the Younger was an England artist of France origin....
) designed by John Soane

John Soane

Sir John Soane was an England architect who specialised in the Neoclassical architecture style. His architectural works are distinguished by their clean lines, massing of simple form, decisive detailing, careful proportions and skilful use of light sources....
. One of Oliver Cromwell's daughters, Mary, lived and died in Chiswick and is buried in the churchyard. Enduring legend has it that the body of Oliver Cromwell was also interred with her. On a later note, Private Frederick Hitch VC, hero of Rorke's Drift

Rorke's Drift

Rorke's Drift was a mission station in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, situated near a natural Ford on the Buffalo River at . During the Anglo-Zulu War, the defence of Rorke's Drift immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana earlier in the day....
, is also buried there.

St. Michael on Elmwood Road, of 1908-9, was designed by W.D. Caroe

W.D. Caroe

William Douglas Caroe was a British architect, particularly of churches. His sons were the architect A. D. R. Caroe, and Sir Olaf Caroe.The firm he founded, Caroe & Partners, still flourishes, specialising in ecclesiastical architecture, especially the restoration of historic churches....
. Chiswick is also home to a Russian Orthodox Cathedral, built in 1998. (See photo at Gunnersbury

Gunnersbury

Gunnersbury is a place in the London Borough of Hounslow, West London. It is a small area less than half a square kilometre within the west area of the Chiswick W4 postal district of London....
.) Less visually prominent than these because of its position amid other building is the Sanderson Factory, now known as Voysey House and situated in Barley Mow Passage, designed by the architect C.F. Voysey and completed in 1902. Its original purpose was a wallpaper printing works, but it is now used as office space. It is a Grade II* listed building

Listed building

A listed building in the United Kingdom is a building or other structure officially designated as being of special architectural, historical or cultural significance....
.

Suburban building began in Gunnersbury

Gunnersbury

Bedford Park, London

Bedford Park is a suburban development in Chiswick in London, England. It forms a conservation area that is mostly within the London Borough of Ealing, with a small part to the east within the London Borough of Hounslow....
, on the borders of Chiswick and Acton, in 1875: the latter, designed largely by Richard Norman Shaw

Richard Norman Shaw

Richard Norman Shaw RA , was the most influential British architect from the 1870s to the 1900s, known for his country houses and for commercial buildings....
, was described by Nikolaus Pevsner

Nikolaus Pevsner

Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon Pevsner, Order of the British Empire, was a German-born British scholar of art historian and, especially, of history of architecture....
as the first place "where the relaxed, informal mood of a market town or village was adopted for a complete speculatively built suburb". Other suburbs of Chiswick include Grove Park (south of the A4, close to Chiswick Station) and Strand on the Green

Strand-on-the-Green

Strand-on-the-Green is an area of Chiswick in west London....
, a fishing hamlet until the late 18th century.

There are several historic public house

Public house

A public house, the formal name for a pub in Britain, is a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic beverage for consumption on or off the premises in countries and regions of United Kingdom influence....
s in Chiswick. Three are in Strand-on-the-Green

Strand-on-the-Green

Strand-on-the-Green is an area of Chiswick in west London....
, fronting on to the river path. The Tabard on Bath Road near Turnham Green station is known for its William Morris

William Morris

William Morris was an English architect, furniture and textile designer, artist, writer, and Socialism associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement....
interior. A large part of Chiswick falls within the conservation area

Conservation area

A conservation area is a tract of land that has been awarded protected status in order to ensure that natural features, cultural heritage or biota are safeguarded....
s within the London Borough of Hounslow.

Transport

Chiswick is situated at the start of the North Circular road

A406 road

The A406 or the North Circular Road is a trunk road which crosses North London, United Kingdom, linking West and East London. It, together with the A205 road, forms a ring road through the inner part of Outer London....
, South Circular road

A205 road

The A205 or South Circular Road is a direct route which crosses South London, United Kingdom, running from Woolwich in the east to the junction of the A406 road , the M4 motorway and the A4 road at Gunnersbury in the west....
and the M4 motorway

M4 motorway

The M4 motorway is a motorway in Great Britain linking London with West Wales. It is part of the unsigned European route E30. Other major places directly accessible from M4 junctions are Reading, Berkshire, Swindon, Bristol, Newport, Cardiff and Swansea....
, the latter providing a direct connection to Heathrow Airport

London Heathrow Airport

London Heathrow Airport or Heathrow , located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, is the largest and Busiest airports in the United Kingdom by total passenger traffic airport in the United Kingdom....
and the M25 motorway

M25 motorway

To see information about the M25 motorway under construction in Ireland, see N25 road.The M25 motorway, also known as the M25 corridor, is a 117 mile beltway which encircles Greater London, United Kingdom....
. The A4 (Great West Road) runs eastwards into central London via the Hogarth Roundabout

Hogarth Roundabout

The Hogarth Roundabout is one of London's best known road junctions. It is situated at the junction of the A316 Great Chertsey Road and the A4 road Great West Road....
where it meets the A316 (Great Chertsey Road)

A316 road

The A316, also known in parts as the Great Chertsey Road, is a major road in England, which extends the M3 motorway north-east towards Central London....
which runs south-west, eventually joining the M3 motorway

M3 motorway

The M3 motorway is a motorway in Hampshire and Surrey, England. It runs from Sunbury-on-Thames to Southampton and is approximately long. The motorway was built to relieve traffic on the A30 road and A33 road, the congested single carriageway trunk roads that previously carried the traffic....
.

The southern border of Chiswick runs along the River Thames, which is crossed in this area by Barnes Railway and Foot Bridge

Barnes Railway Bridge

Barnes Railway Bridge crosses the River Thames in London in a northwest to southeast direction at Barnes, London. It carries the South West Trains Hounslow Loop Line, and lies between Barnes Bridge railway station and Chiswick railway station stations....
, Chiswick Bridge

Chiswick Bridge

Chiswick Bridge crosses the River Thames in London in a North-East to South-West direction.It is on the A316 road route, and joins the areas of Mortlake and North Sheen in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the South side, with Chiswick in the London Borough of Hounslow on the North side....
, Kew Railway Bridge

Kew Railway Bridge

Kew Railway Bridge spans the River Thames between Kew and Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick. The bridge was designed by W.R. Galbraith and built by Thomas Brassey & Ogilvie for the London and South Western Railway....
and Kew Bridge

Kew Bridge

Kew Bridge is a bridge in London over the River Thames. The present bridge was designed by John Wolfe-Barry and opened in 1903. The bridge was given...
. River services between Westminster

Westminster

Westminster is an area of Central London, within the City of Westminster. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, southwest of the City of London and southwest of Charing Cross....
and Hampton Court depart from Kew Gardens Pier

Kew Gardens Pier

Kew Gardens Pier is a is a pier on the River Thames, in London, United Kingdom. It is situated close to Kew Gardens and Kew Bridge....
just across Kew Bridge.

Including buses that stop at Kew Bridge

Kew Bridge

Kew Bridge is a bridge in London over the River Thames. The present bridge was designed by John Wolfe-Barry and opened in 1903. The bridge was given...
and/or Kew Bridge railway station

Kew Bridge railway station

Kew Bridge railway station is in the London Borough of Hounslow, in west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains....
Chiswick has ten bus routes (27

London Buses route 27

London Buses route 27 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London. The service is currently contracted to Transdev London....
, 65

London Buses route 65

London Buses route 65 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Transdev London....
, 94

London Buses route 94

London Buses route 94 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Transdev London....
, 190

London Buses route 190

London Buses route 190 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. The service is currently contracted to Metroline....
, 237

London Buses route 237

London Buses route 237 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. This route is currently contracted to Metroline....
, 267

London Buses route 267

London Buses route 267 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Transdev London....
, 272

London Buses route 272

London Buses route 272 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to NCP-Challenger....
, 391

London Buses route 391

London Buses route 391 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to Transdev London....
, 440

London Buses route 440

London Buses route 440 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, UK. The service is currently contracted to NCP-Challenger....
and E3

London Buses route E3

London Buses route E3 is a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, United Kingdom. The service is currently contracted to First London....
) and two all-night services (N9 and N11).

Until its closure in 1983, London Transport

Transport for London

Transport for London is the local government body responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London in England. Its role is to implement the transport strategy and to manage transport services across London....
had a Central Works and Training School (for bus crews) located in Chiswick High Road, opposite Gunnersbury

Gunnersbury

Gunnersbury is a place in the London Borough of Hounslow, West London. It is a small area less than half a square kilometre within the west area of the Chiswick W4 postal district of London....
Underground Station. The Training School incorporated the world famous Bus "Skid-Pan."

Turnham Green is an interchange with the Piccadilly line

Piccadilly Line

The Piccadilly line is a line of the London Underground, coloured dark blue on the Tube map. It is the third busiest line on the Underground network judged by its passengers per annum....
, but only before 0700 and after 2230.

The nearest National Rail station is Chiswick. South West Trains operates services to London Waterloo via Clapham Junction.

Nearby transport hubs include the Hammersmith tube station

Hammersmith tube station

There are two London Underground stations called Hammersmith:* Hammersmith tube station * Hammersmith tube station The two stations are separated by Hammersmith Broadway....
s, Ealing Broadway station

Ealing Broadway station

Ealing Broadway is a National Rail and London Underground station in Ealing in west London. National Rail services are provided by First Great Western and Heathrow Connect and London Underground services are provided by the District Line and Central Line Lines....
, Barnes railway station

Barnes railway station

Barnes railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South West Trains....
and Richmond station.

Education

Primary schools

State primary schools include "Strand-On-The-Green", "Belmont", "Hogarth", "St.Mary's RC", "Cavendish" and "Grove Park". There are also private

Independent school

An independent school is a school which is not dependent upon national or local government for financing its operation and is instead operated by tuition charges, gifts, and in some cases the investment yield of an financial endowment....
primary schools including "Orchard House", "The Falcons", "Heathfield House", "Chiswick & Bedford Park" and "Kew College

Kew College

Kew College is a Coeducation Independent school in Kew, Surrey, England for boys and girls aged from 3 to 11. It was founded in 1953 by Mrs Hamilton-Spry and became a charitable trust in 1983....
" in nearby Kew

Kew

Kew is a place in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in South West London.Kew is best known for being the home of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ....
.

Secondary schools

Chiswick's local secondary state school is Chiswick Community School

Chiswick Community School

Chiswick Community School is located in Chiswick in the West London borough of Hounslow, in 2004 it had 1239 students including 208 Sixth Formers....
. It has an attendance of roughly 1200 pupils and contains a Sixth Form College, which has an attendance of about 150 students. Chiswick Community School

Chiswick Community School

Chiswick Community School is located in Chiswick in the West London borough of Hounslow, in 2004 it had 1239 students including 208 Sixth Formers....
was granted Technology College

Technology College

Technology College is a term used in the UK for a specialist school that focuses on Design Technology, mathematics and science. These were the first type of specialist schools, beginning in 1994....
status in 2004. Although the school is located in Chiswick, it attracts many pupils from places such as Shepherds Bush, Hammersmith

Hammersmith

Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, approximately 5 miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames....
, and other locations in West London. Chiswick Community School scored moderately well in its last Ofsted

Office for Standards in Education

The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
inspection. The former head teacher of the school, Dame Helen Metcalf, received her Damehood

Dame (title)

Dame is the female equivalent of address to Sir for a United Kingdom knighthood. In the UK honours system, this can be the title of a woman who has been made a Dame Commander or Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath, Order of St Michael and St George, Royal Victorian Order, or Order of the British Empire....
in 1998 for her service to the school. She is widely recognised as the person who turned the school's reputation around.

There are several private secondary schools in nearby areas, such as Godolphin and Latymer School

Godolphin and Latymer School

The Godolphin and Latymer School is an Independent school for 700 girls aged eleven to eighteen in London. Miss Margaret Rudland was the head mistress of the school for over 20 years, but she has now been replaced by Mrs Ruth Mercer....
(all girls, Hammersmith), Latymer Upper School

Latymer Upper School

Latymer Upper School, founded by Edward Latymer in 1624, is a selective Independent School in Hammersmith, west London, lying between King Street and the Thames....
(mixed, Hammersmith), St Paul's Girls' School

St Paul's Girls' School

St Paul's Girls' School is an Independent school , located in Hammersmith, London, England....
(girls, Brook Green), St Paul's School (boys, Barnes). Chiswick is also in the catchment area for Hampton School

Hampton School

Hampton School is a selective independent school, formerly direct grant, day school for boys, located in Hampton, London, England.The Good Schools Guide called the school "A super outward-looking school keen to preserve its strengths , but ready to embrace change if it will further educational achievement."...
(boys, Hampton), Lady Eleanor Holles School

Lady Eleanor Holles School

The Lady Eleanor Holles School is a selective, independent girls' school in Hampton, London, London, England, originally founded in 1711. The school has a Junior Department with some 190 students aged 7-11 and a Senior Department for ages 11-18 with some 700 pupils....
(girls, Hampton) and King's College School

King's College School

King's College School in Wimbledon, London, south-west London, commonly referred to as King's or KCS, is a Selective_school#United_Kingdom Independent school day school for boys of high academic abilities....
(boys/mixed sixth form, Wimbledon).

Higher education

Chiswick is also home to the Arts Educational Schools of London

The Arts Educational Schools

Arts Educational Schools, London is a specialist co-educational performing arts school based in Chiswick, London in the United Kingdom. Commonly known as ArtsEd, it comprises a secondary school, sixth form and professional conservatoire, for students studying Acting, Singing, Music, Dance and Musical Theatre....
, a theatre academy specialising in both acting

Acting

Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a Fictional character and, usually, Speech communication or singing the written text or Play ....
and musical theatre

Musical theatre

Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining music, songs, spoken dialogue and dance. The emotional content of the piece ? humor, pathos, love, anger ? as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an integrated whole....
. This institution has three areas: a secondary school for 11–16-year olds, a sixth form, and a degree-course school which offers BA Honours degrees in acting and in musical theatre. It is accredited by the Council for Dance Education and Training (CDET).

Sports

Rugby

Chiswick has a local rugby union

Rugby union

Rugby union is a competitive outdoor contact sport, played with an oval ball, by two teams of 15 players. It is one of the two main codes of rugby football, the other being rugby league....
team, Chiswick RFC, formerly Old Meadonians RFC. It currently plays in London 4 North West (level eight), seven leagues below the Guinness Premiership

Guinness Premiership

The English Premiership is a professional league competition for rugby union football clubs in the top division of the English rugby system. There are, at present, twelve clubs in the Premiership....
. It plays on a Saturday at Dukes Meadows. The Player of the Season (as voted by the Chiswick population) for the last 3 years running has been Steffan Davies, affectionately known as Tubby. He is regarded as quite the Legend.

Rowing

The Chiswick reach of the Thames is heavily used for competitive and recreational rowing, and Chiswick itself is home to several clubs. The University of London Boat Club

University of London Boat Club

University of London Boat Club is the rowing club for the University of London, covering all the university's constituent Colleges . The club has its boat house on the River Thames in Chiswick, London, United Kingdom....
is based in its boathouse off Hartington Road (the boathouse also houses the clubs of many of the University's constituent colleges and teaching hospitals). ULBC is, periodically, one of the most successful university clubs in the UK, with multiple wins at Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta

Henley Royal Regatta is a Sport rowing event held every year on the River Thames by the town of Henley-on-Thames, England. The Royal Regatta is sometimes referred to as Henley Regatta, its original name pre-dating Royal patronage....
. Recent members include Tim Foster

Tim Foster

Timothy "Tim" James Carrington Foster is a United Kingdom rower. He began rowing at Bedford Modern School and competed in the Junior World Rowing Championships in 1987 and 1988....
, Gold medallist at the Sydney Olympics and Frances Houghton

Frances Houghton

Frances Julia P. Houghton is an England female Rowing , noteworthy for winning Silver Medals in the Quadruple Sculls at both the 2004 Summer Olympics and 2008 Summer Olympics....
, World Champion in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Mortlake Anglian & Alpha Rowing Club and Quintin Boat Club are situated between Chiswick Quay Marina and Chiswick Bridge. The foreshore facing these clubs is also used as the landing place for Boat Race crews.

Tideway Scullers School is immediately downriver of Chiswick Bridge. The Club's current members include single sculling World Champion Mahe Drysdale

Mahe Drysdale

Alexander Mah? Owens Drysdale, New Zealand Order of Merit is a New Zealand Rowing and three-time World Champion single sculler.Born in Melbourne, Australia, Drysdale began rowing at university at the age of 18....
and Great Britain single sculler Alan Campbell

Alan Campbell (sculler)

Alan Campbell is a United Kingdom sport rowingCampbell started rowing for his school, Coleraine Academical Institution for Boys, in Northern Ireland before moving to London and joining the Tideway Scullers School....
. The upriver end of the Championship Course

The Championship Course

The stretch of the River Thames between Mortlake and Putney in London, England is a well-established course for sport rowing races, most famously the The Boat Race....
from Mortlake

Mortlake

Mortlake is a district of London, England and part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It is on the south bank of the River Thames between Kew and Barnes, London with East Sheen inland to the south....
to Putney

Putney

Putney is a district of south-west London in the London Borough of Wandsworth. It is located south-west of Charing Cross, on the southern bank of the River Thames, opposite Fulham....
is adjacent to the Tideway Scullers School boathouse. The Boat Race

The Boat Race

The Boat Race, also known as the University Boat Race and The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, is a rowing race in England between the Oxford University Boat Club and the Cambridge University Boat Club....
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. Other important races such as the Head of the River Race

Head of the River Race

The Head of the River Race is a processional sport rowing race held annually on the River Thames in London, England, on the 4.25 mile The Championship Course from Mortlake to Putney....
race the reverse course, on an ebb tide.

Notable people

Blue plaques

Blue plaque

In the United Kingdom, a blue plaque is a permanent sign installed in a public place to commemorate a link between that location and a famous person or event....
s have been erected for the following people:

Jack Beresford
Jack Beresford

Jack Beresford, Order of the British Empire, was one of the most accomplished sport rowing of his generation. He won medals at five straight Olympics, which was an Olympic record in rowing ....
, Olympic rowing champion
E. M. Forster
E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster Order of Merit , Order of the Companions of Honour , was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist, and librettist....
, novelist
Joseph Michael Gandy
Joseph Michael Gandy

Joseph Michael Gandy was an England artist, visionary architect and architectural theorist, most noted for his imaginative paintings depicting Sir John Soane architectural designs....
, architect and painter
Private Frederick Hitch
Frederick Hitch

Frederick Hitch, Victoria Cross was an England recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to United Kingdom and Commonwealth of Nations forces....
, (V.C.) hero of Rorke's Drift
Rorke's Drift

Rorke's Drift was a mission station in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, situated near a natural Ford on the Buffalo River at . During the Anglo-Zulu War, the defence of Rorke's Drift immediately followed the British Army's defeat at the Battle of Isandlwana earlier in the day....
John Lindley
John Lindley

John Lindley was an England botanist and....
, botanist and pioneer orchidologist
Lucien Pissarro
Lucien Pissarro

Lucien Pissarro was a France Painting, printmaker and wood engraver. Eldest son of the impressionism painter Camille Pissarro, he was born in Paris and studied with his father....
, painter, print-maker and wood engraver
Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope is generally regarded as the greatest England poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer....
, poet
Johann Zoffany
Johann Zoffany

Johann Zoffany, Zoffani or Zauffelij was a German Neoclassicism painter, active mainly in England. His works appear in many prominent British national galleries such as the National Gallery, London and the Tate Gallery....
, painter

Other notable residents

Chiswick's notable past and current residents include Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews

Eamonn Andrews, Order of the British Empire was an Ireland-born television presenter based in England.Andrews was born in Synge Street, Dublin, Ireland, the same street as playwright George Bernard Shaw....
, Alice Arnold

Alice Arnold

Alice Arnold is a United Kingdom newsreader and continuity announcer on BBC Radio 4....
, Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey

Mark Bailey , Stage name as Bill Bailey, is an England stand-up comedian, musician and actor, known for his appearances on Have I Got News for You, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, QI and Black Books....
, Clare Balding

Clare Balding

Clare Balding is a BBC sports presenter, journalist and jockey.In 1989 and 1990, she was a leading amateur flat racing jockey and Champion Lady Rider in 1990....
, Kate Beckinsale

Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn "Kate" Bailey Beckinsale is an England actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor , Underworld , Van Helsing , The Aviator , Underworld: Evolution and Click ....
, Peter Blake

Peter Blake (artist)

'Sir Peter Thomas Blake', Order of the British Empire, Royal Designers for Industry, is an English pop artist, best known for his design of the sleeve for The Beatles' album Sgt....
, Pete Briquette

Pete Briquette

Pete Briquette is the stage name of Patrick Andrew Cusack .He was the bass guitar and occasional keyboard instrument for the band , The Boomtown Rats....
, Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess

John Burgess Wilson was an England author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.His Utopian and dystopian fiction satire A Clockwork Orange, widely considered to be his magnum opus, is by far his most famous novel, and was adapted into a famous, if highly controversial, A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick....
, Phil Collins

Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
, Jasper Conran

Jasper Conran

Jasper Alexander Thirlby Conran Order of the British Empire is an England fashion designer. He is the son of the designer Terence Conran and the author Shirley Conran....
, Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper was an British people prop comedian and magic . He was known for making an art of getting magic tricks wrong, although he was actually an accomplished magician....
, William Dalrymple, Timothy Dalton

Timothy Dalton

Timothy Peter Dalton is a Wales actor. He is best known for portraying James Bond in The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill and for his roles in William Shakespeare films and plays....
, Roger Daltrey

Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey Order of the British Empire is an England singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock music band The Who....
, James Dean Bradfield

James Dean Bradfield

James Dean Bradfield is the lead guitarist and vocalist for the Wales rock band Manic Street Preachers....
, Bruce Dickinson

Bruce Dickinson

Paul Bruce Dickinson is an English singer, airline Aviator, radio show host, DJ, historian, Presenter#Television presenters, diver, Fencing, record producer, novelist, and songwriter best known as the vocalist of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden....
, Declan Donnelly

Declan Donnelly

"Dec" is one half of the English acting and television presenter duo "Ant & Dec" alongside Anthony McPartlin. He came to prominence in the children's drama series Byker Grove and as one half of the pop duo PJ & Duncan discography....
(of Ant & Dec

Ant & Dec

Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, known as 'Ant & Dec', are a Newcastle upon Tyne duo of light entertainment television presenters. They are regular presenters on many high-profile ITV1 shows, including I'm a Celebrity......
), Shaun Edwards

Shaun Edwards

Shaun Edwards Order of the British Empire is a former international rugby league player who is now head coach of London Wasps rugby union team and defence coach, on a part-time basis, of the Wales national rugby union team....
, John Entwistle

John Entwistle

John Alec Entwistle was an English bass guitarist, songwriter, singer, and Horn player, who was best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band The Who....
, Colin Firth

Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth is an United Kingdom film, television and stage actor. Firth first gained wide public attention, especially in Britain, for his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the highly acclaimed Pride and Prejudice of Pride and Prejudice....
, John Fortune

John Fortune

John Fortune is a United Kingdom satirist, comedian writer and actor, best known for his work with John Bird and Rory Bremner on the TV series Bremner, Bird and Fortune....
. Peter Foxhall

Peter Foxhall

Peter Christopher Foxhall is an Australian clergyman, evangelist and author, who was born in St Neots, Huntingdonshire , England....
, Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp

Robert Fripp is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson....
, Noel Gallagher

Noel Gallagher

Noel Thomas David Gallagher is the principal songwriter, lead guitarist, and occasional vocalist of English rock band Oasis . Raised with younger brother Liam Gallagher in Burnage, Manchester, Gallagher began to get guitar lessons from Dayle Robertson at the age of thirteen during a period of probation....
, Claire Goose

Claire Goose

Claire Goose is a Scotland actor. She was educated at Wisbech Grammar School. She is best known for her role as nurse Tina Seabrook in the BBC television drama Casualty and later as DS Mel Silver in Waking the Dead ....
, Hugh Grant

Hugh Grant

Hugh John Mungo Grant is a British people actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary C?sar. His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide....
, Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock

Sheila Hancock Order of the British Empire is an England actress, known primarily for her comedy performances....
, Nigel Havers

Nigel Havers

Nigel Allan Havers is a BAFTA Awards nominated England actor.He is probably best known for his BAFTA-nominated role as Lord Andrew Lindsay in the 1981 United Kingdom film Chariots of Fire....
, Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Hitchcock

Robyn Rowan Hitchcock is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. While primarily a vocalist and guitarist, he also plays harmonica, piano and bass guitar....
, William Hogarth

William Hogarth

Mick Hucknall

Michael Hucknall is a United Kingdom singer and songwriter. He is the vocalist of the British band Simply Red....
, Jeremy Irons

Jeremy Irons

Jeremy John Irons is an England film, television and stage actor. He has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, two Emmy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards....
, Felicity Kendal

Felicity Kendal

Felicity Ann Kendal, Order of the British Empire is an English actor who is well known in the United Kingdom for her television work.Born in 1946, Kendal spent much of her childhood in India, where her father managed a touring repertory company....
, Judy Loe

Judy Loe

Judith M. "Judy" Loe is an England actress, also notable for being the widow of the actor Richard Beckinsale and the mother of the film star Kate Beckinsale....
, Nick Lowe

Nick Lowe

Nick Lowe is an English people singer-songwriter, musician and Record producer.A pivotal figure in United Kingdom pub rock, punk rock and new wave music, Lowe has sound recording and reproduction a string of well-reviewed solo albums....
, Des Lynam

Des Lynam

Desmond Michael "Des" Lynam, Order of the British Empire is an Irish people presenter on British television and radio. He currently lives in the seaside town of Worthing, West Sussex....
, Davina McCall

Davina McCall

Davina Lucy Pascale McCall is an Great Britain actress and television presenter, most notable for her work on Channel 4's Big Brother UK reality TV series....
, Anthony McPartlin

Anthony McPartlin

Anthony David McPartlin also known as Ant and PJ is one half of the England actor and television presenter duo 'Ant & Dec', alongside Declan Donnelly....
(of Ant & Dec

Ant & Dec

Juliet Morris

Juliet Morris is a British television presenter, born in London in 1966.Brought up in Devon, Morris graduated from Hull University and, after a spell on BBC South West's BBC Spotlight, went on to join the BBC children's news show, Newsround in 1990....
, Al Murray

Al Murray

Alastair James Hay "Al" Murray , is a United Kingdom comedian best known for his Stand-up comedy persona, "The Pub Landlord," a stereotypical xenophobic public house licensee, and indeed earlier in his career he performed in pubs....
, Martin Offiah

Martin Offiah

Martin "Chariots" Offiah Order of the British Empire is an English former rugby league and, briefly, rugby union footballer of the 1980s, 90s and 2000s....
, Suzi Perry

Suzi Perry

Suzi Perry is an England television presenter....
, Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave Order of the British Empire is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Emmy and Tony Award winning England actor. She is the most famous member of the Redgrave family, the world renowned theatrical dynasty....
, Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart

Patrick Hewes Stewart, Order of the British Empire is an English film, television and Stage actor. He is also Chancellor of the University of Huddersfield....
, Moira Stuart

Moira Stuart

Moira Clare Ruby Stuart Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom journalist who was the first British African-Caribbean community female News presenter on British television....
, John Thaw

John Thaw

John Edward Thaw Order of the British Empire was an England actor, who made his television d?but in the military police drama Redcap , and subsequently appeared in a range of television, Theatre and Film roles, his most popular being police and legal dramas such as The Sweeney, Inspector Morse and Kavanagh QC....
, Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend , is an English rock and roll guitarist, singer, songwriter, composer, and writer, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for The Who, as well as for his own solo career....
, Dennis Waterman

Dennis Waterman

Dennis Waterman is an English actor and singer, best known for his tough-guy roles in television series such as The Sweeney and Minder ....
, Kim Wilde

Kim Wilde

Kim Wilde is an England pop singer.Wilde burst onto the music scene in 1981 with the new wave music classic "Kids in America ", which hit number two in the UK Singles Chart....
and Toyah Willcox

Toyah Willcox

Toyah Ann Willcox is an English actress and singer....
.

Media appearances

The exterior of Chiswick House was filmed for Marisa Coulter's house in the 2007 blockbuster The Golden Compass
Exterior shots of Chiswick Town Hall appeared in the 1990 Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse

Detective Chief Inspector Endeavour Morse is a fictional character in a series of thirteen detective novels by United Kingdom author Colin Dexter, as well as the Inspector Morse produced by Central Independent Television from 1987?2000, in which he was portrayed by John Thaw....
TV episode Masonic Mysteries
List of Inspector Morse episodes

This is a list of episodes of the Inspector Morse British television series produced between 1987 and 2000....
, as the building in which Morse's local choral society is performing The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute

The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
.
Bath Road is featured extensively in outdoor shots in the 1990 film Nuns on the Run
Nuns on the Run

Nuns on the Run is a 1990 in film British comedy film, starring Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle. It was written and directed by Jonathan Lynn and produced by Handmade Films....
.
A home on Bath Road was used in the film Love Actually
Love Actually

Love Actually is a 2003 in film United Kingdom romantic comedy film written and directed by Richard Curtis. The screenplay delves into different aspects of love as shown through stories involving a wide variety of individuals, many of whom are linked as their tales progress....
, in a scene featuring Chiswick resident, Colin Firth
Colin Firth

Colin Andrew Firth is an United Kingdom film, television and stage actor. Firth first gained wide public attention, especially in Britain, for his portrayal of Fitzwilliam Darcy in the highly acclaimed Pride and Prejudice of Pride and Prejudice....
.
Because Chiswick is located close to television studios, it is used frequently by national television channels such as the BBC and ITV
ITV

ITV is a public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television network of British television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC....
for location shots. Recent TV material was shot for The Worst Week of My Life
The Worst Week of My Life

The Worst Week of My Life is a United Kingdom comedy television series, first broadcast on BBC One between March and April 2004. A second series was aired between November and December 2005 and a three-part Christmas special, The Worst Christmas of My Life was shown during December 2006....
, Harry & Paul, Love Soup and Jonathan Creek
Jonathan Creek

Jonathan Creek is a United Kingdom mystery series produced by the BBC and written by David Renwick. Primarily a crime drama, the show stars Alan Davies as the titular character, an eccentric magician's assistant who also solves seemingly supernatural mysteries through his talent for logical deduction and knowledge of illusionism....
at Sutton Court & environs.
Many location shots for the more recent version of Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (2004 film)

William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair has been the subject of Vanity Fair #Film, TV or theatrical_adaptations. Vanity Fair is a 2004 in film Drama film/romance film film, film director by Mira Nair....
were shot in the grounds of Chiswick House
Chiswick House

Chiswick House is a neo-Palladian villa in Burlington Lane, Chiswick, in the London Borough of Hounslow, England....
including the bridge and lake.
In Bottom
Bottom (TV series)

Bottom is an award-winning British sitcom of the early 1990s , written by and starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, as the crude and mentally insane Richie and Eddie; two desperate flatmates on the dole....
, Eddie's sleeping bag was in Chiswick.
The Porters in "2point4 Children
2point4 children

2point4 Children is a British sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall . It follows the lives of the Porter family; a normal family faced with abnormal situations....
" live in Chiswick.
The Harpers in My Family live in Chiswick.
In the Doctor Who
Doctor Who

Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
third series episode "The Runaway Bride"
The Runaway Bride (Doctor Who)

"The Runaway Bride" is a special List of Doctor Who serials of the long running United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who, starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor....
, Donna Noble
Donna Noble

Donna Noble is a fictional character played by Catherine Tate in the long-running United Kingdom science fiction on television series Doctor Who....
, played by Catherine Tate
Catherine Tate

Catherine Tate is an England actress, writer and comedienne. She has won numerous awards for her work on the sketch comedy series The Catherine Tate Show as well as being nominated for an International Emmy Award and four British Academy Television Awards....
, was to be married at a church in Chiswick. Donna Noble returns in the fourth series and we see her family home in Chiswick in the episodes Partners in Crime
Partners in Crime (Doctor Who)

"Partners in Crime" is the first episode of the Doctor Who of United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 5 April 2008....
and The Sontaran Stratagem
The Sontaran Stratagem

"The Sontaran Stratagem" is the fourth episode of the List of Doctor Who serials#Series 4 of United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who....
. In the episode Planet of the Ood
Planet of the Ood

"Planet of the Ood" is the third episode of the Doctor Who of United Kingdom science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was broadcast on BBC One on 19 April 2008....
, Donna mentions she was born in Chiswick. Additionally, she refers to herself as the "best temp in Chiswick" several times throughout the series.
The Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
film Help!
Help! (film)

Help! is a 1965 film starring The Beatles and featuring Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, John Bluthal, Roy Kinnear and Patrick Cargill....
featured a river-side sequence filmed at Strand-on-the-Green
Strand-on-the-Green

Strand-on-the-Green is an area of Chiswick in west London....
The 1980s sitcom Three Up, Two Down
Three Up, Two Down

Three Up, Two Down is a United Kingdom British sitcom starring Michael Elphick and Angela Thorne that ran from 1985 to 1989. It was written by Richard Ommanney....
was set in Chiswick.
Chiswick Auction House also regularly appears on the BBC show "Cash in the Attic."
In Derek and Clive
Derek and Clive

Derek and Clive are controversial cult characters created by double act Dudley Moore and Peter Cook respectively on the records Derek and Clive , 1976; Derek and Clive Come Again, 1977 and Derek and Clive Ad Nauseam, 1978 and a film documentary, Derek and Clive Get the Horn, 1979....
, Peter Cook mentions that he had sex with a woman then nailed her to a wall in Chiswick.
Chiswick features in many music videos, including Paperback Writer
Paperback Writer

"Paperback Writer" is a 1966 rock song recorded and released by The Beatles. Credited to Lennon/McCartney, the song was released as the A-side of their eleventh single ....
by The Beatles, Roses for the Dead
Roses for the Dead

"Roses for the Dead" is a single by Funeral for a Friend release from their album Hours . It charted at number 39 in the UK....
by Funeral for a Friend
Funeral for a Friend

Funeral for a Friend are a Welsh post-hardcore band, from Bridgend, Wales, UK, formed in 2001. The band's lineup currently consists of five members and have created four studio albums....
, Dean by Dizzee Rascal
Dizzee Rascal

Dylan Mills , known professionally as Dizzee Rascal, is a British rapper and a record producer. His music is a blend of garage MCing, conventional Hip hop music, grime and ragga, with extremely eclectic samples and more exotic styles....
and Fit But You Know It by The Streets.
A singer Phil Collins
Phil Collins

Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, Royal Victorian Order, is an England singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as the lead singer and drummer of England progressive rock group Genesis and as a Grammy Award and Academy Award-winning solo artist....
born in January 30, 1951 from Chiswick.

External links

, A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden, (1982)