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| region = London
| official_name = Chiswick
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'''Chiswick''' ({{IPAc-en|audio=En-uk-Chiswick.ogg|ˈ|tʃ|ɪ|z|ɪ|k}} {{Respell|CHIZ|ik}})<ref>{{cite web|title=How Do You Pronounce Theydon Bois?|url=http://londonist.com/2011/10/pronunciation|website=Londonist|date=17 October 2011|access-date=25 April 2019|archive-date=20 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190220182057/https://londonist.com/2011/10/pronunciation|url-status=live}}</ref> is a district in [[West London]], split between the [[London boroughs]] of [[London Borough of Hounslow|Hounslow]] and [[London Borough of Ealing|Ealing]]. It contains [[Hogarth's House]], the former residence of the 18th-century English artist [[William Hogarth]], [[Chiswick House]], 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 [[St Nicholas Church, Chiswick|ancient parish]] in the county of [[Middlesex]], with an agrarian and fishing economy beside 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 the [[London Borough of Hounslow]]. Modern Chiswick is an affluent area which includes the early garden suburb [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]], [[Grove Park, Chiswick|Grove Park]], the Glebe Estate, [[Strand-on-the-Green]] and [[London Underground|tube]] stations [[Chiswick Park tube station|Chiswick Park]], [[Turnham Green tube station|Turnham Green]], [[Gunnersbury tube station|Gunnersbury]] and [[Stamford Brook tube station|Stamford Brook]], as well as the [[Gunnersbury Triangle]] local nature reserve. Some parts of Bedford Park and [[Acton Green, London|Acton Green]] are<!-- curiously--> in the Chiswick W4 postcode area but 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 [[A4 road (Great Britain)|Great West Road]] from central London becomes the [[M4 motorway]], while the [[Great Chertsey Road]] (A316) runs south-west, becoming the [[M3 motorway (Great Britain)|M3 motorway]].

People who have lived in Chiswick include the poets [[Alexander Pope]] and [[W. B. Yeats]], 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]].

== History ==

[[File:The Old Burlington XVth century Church Lane Chiswick.JPG|thumb|left|[[Old Chiswick]]: the fifteenth-century Old Burlington, one of two former pubs on Church Street, Chiswick. The tower of the former Lamb Brewery is behind it on the left.]]

Chiswick was first recorded {{circa}} 1000 as the [[Old English]] ''Ceswican'' meaning 'Cheese Farm'; the riverside area of Duke's Meadows is thought to have supported an annual cheese fair up until the 18th century.<ref name=room>{{cite book| last=Room |first=Adrian |chapter=Chiswick |title=Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles | url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryofplac0000room | url-access=registration |publisher=Bloomsbury |year=1988|isbn=9780747501701 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas. CP 40/629; Year 1418 |publisher=National Archives |url=http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0444.htm |pages=third entry – Chesewyk is the home of John Meryman, carpenter, a defendant |access-date=9 October 2013 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083925/http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0444.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The area was settled in Roman times; an urn found at Turnham Green contained Roman coins, and Roman brickwork was found under the [[Little Sutton, Chiswick|Sutton manor house]].{{sfn|Baker|1982|loc=Growth}}

[[Old Chiswick]] grew up as a village around [[St Nicholas Church, Chiswick|St Nicholas Church]] from {{circa|1181}} on Church Street, its inhabitants practising farming, fishing and other riverside trades including a ferry, important as there were no bridges between London Bridge and Kingston throughout the Middle Ages.{{sfn|Clegg|1995|p=17}} The area included three other small settlements, the fishing village of [[Strand-on-the-Green]], the hamlet of [[Little Sutton, Chiswick|Little Sutton]] in the centre, and [[Turnham Green]] on the west road out of London.{{sfn|Clegg|1995|p=17}}

A [[Battle of Turnham Green|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 a larger parliamentarian force under the [[Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex|Earl of Essex]]. The royalists retreated and never again threatened the capital.{{sfn|Clegg|1995|pp=29–30}}

From 1758 until 1929 the [[Dukes of Devonshire]] owned [[Chiswick House]], and their legacy can be found in street names all over Chiswick.{{efn|There are streets named after their title (Duke Road, Dukes Avenue, Devonshire Road, Devonshire Gardens); their surname (Cavendish Road); their courtesy titles (Hartington Road, Burlington Lane); their estates (Chatsworth Road, Bolton Road); and the village on their main estate (Edensor Road).{{sfn|Clegg|1995|p=38}}}}{{sfn|Clegg|1995|p=38}}

In 1864, [[John Isaac Thornycroft]], founder of the [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]] shipbuilding company, established a yard at Church Wharf at the west end of [[Chiswick Mall]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Arthure |first=Humphrey | title=Thornycroft Shipbuilding and Motor Works in Chiswick | date=n.d. | pages=24 | isbn=<!--none-->}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Arthure |first=Humphrey | title=Life and Work in Old Chiswick | date=March 1982 | isbn=<!--none-->}}</ref> The shipyard built the first naval [[destroyer]], {{HMS|Daring|1893|6}} of the [[Daring-class destroyer (1893)|Daring class]], in 1893.<ref>{{cite book | last=Lyon |first=David | title=The First Destroyers | year=1996 | pages=40–41 |publisher=Caxton Editions | isbn=1-84067-364-8}}</ref> To cater for the increasing size of warships, Thornycroft moved its shipyard to [[Southampton]] in 1909.{{sfn|Clegg|1995|pp=87–88}}

[[File:Chiswick High Road postcard.jpg|thumb|Postcard photo of [[Chiswick High Road]] and [[King Street, Hammersmith]], {{circa|1900}}]]

In 1822, the [[Royal Horticultural Society]] leased {{convert|33|acre|ha|1}} of land in the area south of the High Road between what are now Sutton Court Road and Duke's Avenue.<ref name=elliot>{{cite book | last=Elliot |first=Brent | title=The Royal Horticultural Society: A History 1804–2004 |publisher=Royal Horticultural Society | year=2004}}</ref> 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 {{convert|10|acre|ha|1}} in the 1870s, and the lease was terminated when the [[RHS Garden, Wisley|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 the 19th century, reaching 29,809 in 1901,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043&add=N |title=Chiswick St Nicholas CP/AP through time &#124; Population Statistics &#124; Total Population |publisher=Visionofbritain.org.uk |access-date=26 November 2010 |archive-date=4 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104154041/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/data_cube_page.jsp?data_theme=T_POP&data_cube=N_TOT_POP&u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043&add=N |url-status=live }}</ref> and the area is a mixture of Georgian, Victorian and Edwardian housing. Suburban building began in [[Gunnersbury]] in the 1860s and in [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]], the first [[garden suburb]], on the borders of Chiswick and Acton, in 1875.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clegg |first1=Gillian |title=People |url=https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/search-discover/chiswick-history-homepage/people/ |publisher=Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society |access-date=10 June 2021 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610075657/https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/search-discover/chiswick-history-homepage/people/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], Chiswick was bombed repeatedly,<ref>{{cite book |last=Roe |first=William P. |title=Glimpses of Chiswick's Development |publisher=W. P. Roe |pages=80–90 |year=1999 |isbn= 978-0951651223}}</ref> 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 the rocket and many more suffered damage.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3634212.stm | work=BBC News | first=Paul | last=Rincon | title=V-2: Hitler's Last Weapon of Terror | date=7 September 2004}}</ref> There is a memorial where the rocket fell on Staveley Road,<ref>{{cite web |title=Commemorating the Chiswick V2 |url=https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/local-history/war/commemorating-the-chiswick-v2/ |publisher=Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society |access-date=25 September 2024}}</ref> and a War Memorial at the east end of Turnham Green.<ref>{{cite web |title=Memorial Chiswick - WW1 and WW2 |url=https://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/12061 |publisher=Imperial War Museum |access-date=25 September 2024}}</ref>

[[Refuge (United Kingdom charity)|Refuge]] was founded in 1971 in Chiswick, as the modern world's first safe house for women and children escaping domestic violence.<ref name="charity-commission.gov.uk">{{Cite web |url=http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0000277424_AC_20130331_E_C.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=18 February 2014 |archive-date=23 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223123744/http://apps.charitycommission.gov.uk/Accounts/Ends24/0000277424_AC_20130331_E_C.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

By the start of the 21st century, Chiswick had become an affluent suburb.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thorgills.com/news/chiswick-from-ramshackle-fishing-village-to-a-leafy-and-affluent-suburb/thorg-000431 |title=Chiswick – From Ramshackle Fishing village to a Leafy and Affluent Suburb |publisher=Thorgills |access-date=25 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180426080000/http://www.thorgills.com/news/chiswick-from-ramshackle-fishing-village-to-a-leafy-and-affluent-suburb/thorg-000431 |archive-date=26 April 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

== Governance ==

[[File:Chiswick Town Hall north and west facing 515c.jpg|thumb|left|[[Chiswick Town Hall]], designed by A. Ramsden, 1901<ref>{{cite book |last=Draper |first=Warwick |title=Chiswick |publisher=Anne Bingley and Hounslow Leisure Services |year=1990 |pages=173, 176}}</ref>]]

Chiswick is split between the [[London boroughs]] of [[London Borough of Hounslow|Hounslow]] and [[London Borough of Ealing|Ealing]]. For elections to [[Hounslow London Borough Council]], Chiswick is represented by nine councillors from three [[electoral wards]]: [[Chiswick Gunnersbury]], [[Chiswick Homefields]] and [[Chiswick Riverside]].<ref>{{cite web |date=12 October 2020 |title=The London Borough of Hounslow (Electoral Changes) Order 2020 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2020/1108/schedule/made |access-date=14 November 2021 |website=[[gov.uk]]}}</ref> Councillors serve four-year terms and since the [[2022 Hounslow London Borough Council election|2022 Hounslow election]], eight are [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservatives]] and one [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20043/elections_and_voting/2396/declaration_of_result_of_poll | title=Declaration of result of poll }}</ref> Before 2022, the electoral wards were Turnham Green, Chiswick Homefields and Chiswick Riverside.<ref>{{cite web |title=FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FUTURE ELECTORAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR HOUNSLOW |url=https://www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/greater-london/greater-london/hounslow |website=UK Government Web Archive |publisher=Local Government Boundary Commission for England |access-date=7 December 2025 |archive-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20221201172611/https://www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/greater-london/greater-london/hounslow |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> The Chiswick areas of [[Acton Green, London|Acton Green]] and [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]] are part of [[London Borough of Ealing|Ealing]].

Chiswick forms part of the [[Brentford and Isleworth]] parliamentary constituency, having been part of the [[Brentford and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency)|Brentford and Chiswick]] constituency between 1918 and 1974.<ref name="1974constchanges">{{Cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1674/contents/made/data.htm |title=The Parliamentary Constituencies (England) Order 1970 |website=www.legislation.gov.uk |access-date=4 November 2019 |archive-date=30 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190130162115/http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1970/1674/contents/made/data.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] (MP) is [[Ruth Cadbury]] (Labour), elected at the [[2015 United Kingdom general election|2015 general election]] replacing [[Mary Macleod]] (Conservative).<ref>{{cite web |title=Election Data 2015 |url=http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017112223/http://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/electdata_2015.txt |archive-date=17 October 2015 |access-date=17 October 2015 |publisher=[[Electoral Calculus]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/general_election_2015_pp_brentford_and_isleworth_declaration_final.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304193354/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/general_election_2015_pp_brentford_and_isleworth_declaration_final.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-04 |access-date=2015-08-19}} 3Aug15</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=UK ELECTION RESULTS |url=http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/brentford-isleworth-2015.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160218031457/http://electionresults.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/brentford-isleworth-2015.html |archive-date=18 February 2016 |access-date=25 November 2014 |work=electionresults.blogspot.co.uk}}</ref>

For elections to the [[London Assembly]], Chiswick is in the [[South West (London Assembly constituency)|South West constituency]], represented since 2024 by [[Gareth Roberts (politician)|Gareth Roberts]], of the Liberal Democrats.<ref>{{cite web|url=  https://www.londonelects.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-05/south_west_constituency_member_results_2024.pdf |title=GLA 2024 Elections, Constituency Member of the London Assembly Results, South West|publisher=London Elects}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.londonelects.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-05/south_west_london-wide_member_results_2024.pdf |title=GLA 2024 Elections, London Wide Assembly, South West|publisher=London Elects}}</ref> It was one of 35 major centres identified in the statutory planning document of Greater London, the [[London Plan]] of 2008.<ref name=london_plan_f08>{{cite web|url=http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf |author=[[Mayor of London]] |publisher=[[Greater London Authority]] |title=London Plan (Consolidated with Alterations since 2004) |date=February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100602000714/http://www.london.gov.uk/thelondonplan/docs/londonplan08.pdf |archive-date=2 June 2010  }}</ref>

Historically, Chiswick St Nicholas was an ancient parish in the [[Ossulstone]] hundred of [[Middlesex]].<ref name="vision_parish_chiswick">{{cite vob |name=Chiswick parish |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224055939/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043 |url-status=dead |archive-date=24 December 2012 |map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10021364&c_id=10001043 |access-date=1 February 2008 }}</ref> 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Brentford/ |title=The Workhouse, the story of an institution. Brentford, Middlesex |last=Higginbotham |first=Peter |access-date=17 December 2016}}</ref> 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.'<ref name=Logan>{{Cite thesis |url=http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6442/#undefined |title=Improving Chiswick, 1858–1883 |last=Logan |first=Tracey |date=2016 |website=SAS-Space |publisher=University of London School of Advanced Study |access-date=17 December 2016 |type=masters |ref=75 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220182959/http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/6442/#undefined |url-status=live }}</ref>  From 1858, under the Chiswick Improvement Act of that year,<ref name=Logan /> responsibility for drains and sewers, paving and lighting was vested in an elected board of eighteen [[Improvement Commissioners]].<ref name=Logan/> This operated as Chiswick's secular local authority for a quarter of a century until its replacement with a [[Local boards formed in England and Wales 1848–94|Local Board]] in 1883.<ref name=Logan /> In 1878 the parish gained a triangle of land in the east which had formed a detached part of [[Ealing]].<ref name=growth/> From 1894 to 1927 the parish formed the [[Chiswick Urban District]].<ref name=vision_chiswick>{{cite vob |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10025862 |name=Chiswick UD |map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp;jsessionid=627B45DD1F799BEC5A05D735CDBF269F?first=true&u_id=10025862&c_id=10001043 |access-date=1 February 2008 }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070328054302/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10025862 |date=28 March 2007 }}</ref><ref name=EB1911>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Chiswick|volume=6|page=247}}</ref> In 1927 it was abolished and its former area was merged with that of [[Brentford Urban District]] to form [[Brentford and Chiswick Urban District]].<ref name=vision_brentford_chiswick>{{cite vob |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10198355 |name=Brentford and Chiswick UD/MB |map=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/bound_map_page.jsp?first=true&u_id=10198355&c_id=10001043 |access-date=1 February 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418104243/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10198355 |archive-date=18 April 2012 }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418104243/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/relationships.jsp?u_id=10198355 |date=18 April 2012 }}</ref> 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.<ref name="lbhcreation">{{cite web |url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/contents |title=London Government Act 1963 |publisher=Legislation.co.uk |access-date=5 April 2020 |archive-date=24 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200424204850/http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1963/33/contents |url-status=live }}</ref> With these changes, [[Chiswick Town Hall]] is no longer the local government centre but remains an approved venue for marriage and civil partnership ceremonies.<ref name ="townhall">{{cite web |url=https://www.hounslow.gov.uk/info/20094/marriages_and_civil_partnerships/1334/approved_premises_-_licensed_venues_for_ceremonies |title=Approved premises and licensing venues for ceremonies |publisher=London Borough of Hounslow |access-date=31 August 2020}}</ref>

== Geography ==

{{Geographic Location |title = '''Areas of Chiswick''' |Northwest = [[Acton Green, London|Acton Green]] |North = [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]] |West = [[Gunnersbury]] |Centre = [[Turnham Green]] |East =[[Chiswick High Road]] |Southwest = [[Strand-on-the-Green]]|South = [[Grove Park, Chiswick|Grove Park]] |Southeast = [[Old Chiswick]]}}

[[File:Corney House in Chiswick from the River by Jacob Knyff 1675-80.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5<!--width for low image-->|Painting ''Corney House in Chiswick from the River'' by [[Jacob Knyff]], 1675–80. [[St Nicholas Church, Chiswick|St Nicholas Church]] is in the centre.]]
<!--[[File:Chiswick Eyot.jpg|thumb|Chiswick Eyot; [[St Nicholas Church, Chiswick|St Nicholas Church]], red brick buildings along [[Chiswick Mall]] and [[Fuller's Brewery]] visible in the background]]-->

Chiswick occupies a meander of the [[River Thames]], {{convert|6|mi|km|1}} 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, 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, London|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 the [[London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham]]. In the north are [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]] (like Chiswick, within the London W4 postcode area) and [[South Acton, London|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,{{sfn|Clegg|1995|p=63}} and [[Brentford]].<ref name=map>Hounslow London Borough Council – [http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/hounslow_borough_map.pdf Map of Hounslow] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070628133838/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/hounslow_borough_map.pdf |date=28 June 2007 }}. Retrieved on 1 February 2008.</ref> A short distance south of 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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Clegg |first=Gillian |title=The Glebe Estate, Chiswick |url=https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/the-glebe-estate-chiswick/ |publisher=Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society |access-date=9 June 2021 |date=2003 |archive-date=9 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210609123415/https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/the-glebe-estate-chiswick/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Chiswick is in the [[W postcode area|W4 postcode district]] of the [[London postal district|London post town]], which in a tribute to its ancient parish includes Bedford Park and [[Acton Green, London|Acton Green]], mostly within the London Borough of Ealing.<ref name=project>{{cite web |publisher=Museum of London |url=http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/postcodes/places/W4.html |title=The Postcodes Project: W4 Chiswick |access-date=15 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070708162021/http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/postcodes/places/W4.html |archive-date=8 July 2007  }}</ref>

Some of 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, Chiswick|Grove Park]] (south of the A4, close to Chiswick railway station) and [[Strand-on-the-Green|Strand on the Green]], a fishing hamlet until the late 18th century.<ref>''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22563 Chiswick: Economic history] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604061612/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22563 |date=4 June 2011 }}'', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden (1982), pp. 78–86. Retrieved on 1 February 2008.</ref> As early as 1896, Bedford Park was advertised as being in Chiswick,<ref>map in Chiswick Past, page 123</ref> though at that time much of it was in [[Municipal Borough of Acton|Acton]].<ref name=growth>''[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22559 Chiswick: Growth] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927214944/http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22559 |date=27 September 2007 }}'', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden, (1982). Retrieved 1 February 2008.</ref>

== Economy ==

[[File:Fuller's brewery - pipes - cylinder.jpg|thumb|left|[[Griffin Brewery]], [[Old Chiswick]]]]

{{further|Chiswick High Road}}

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 (Brentford)|Golden Mile]] [[A4 road (England)|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 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.{{sfn|Clegg|1995|p=137}} Chiswick has an annual book festival.<ref>{{cite web |title=Who organises the Chiswick Book Festival? |url=https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/who-organises-the-chiswick-book-festival/ |website=The Chiswick Calendar |access-date=26 October 2022}}</ref>

Chiswick is home to the [[Fuller's Brewery|Griffin Brewery]], where [[Fuller, Smith & Turner]] and its predecessor companies brewed their prize-winning [[cask ale|ales]] on the same site for over 350 years. The original brewery was in the gardens of Bedford House in Chiswick Mall.<ref name=History>{{cite web |title=History and Heritage |url=http://www.fullers.co.uk/brewery/history-and-heritage |publisher=Fuller's |access-date=21 May 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160626144130/http://www.fullers.co.uk/brewery/history-and-heritage |archive-date=26 June 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

A weekly [[farmers' market]] is held every Sunday by Grove Park Farm House, Duke's Meadows.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Food Market Chiswick |url=https://dukesmeadowstrust.org/food-market-chiswick/ |publisher=Duke's Meadows Trust |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Flower Market |url=https://chiswickflowermarket.com/ |publisher=Chiswick Flower Market |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref> An antiques market is to be held on 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=New application for cheese and provisions market submitted |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=concheesemarket001.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=29 June 2021 |date=12 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Cheese Market |url=https://www.chiswickcheesemarket.uk/ |publisher=Chiswick Cheese Market |access-date=29 June 2021}}</ref>

== Points of interest ==

[[File:Chiswick House from SE (cropped).jpg|thumb|[[Chiswick House]] in [[Palladian style]], 1726–29]]

=== Chiswick House ===

[[Chiswick House]] was designed by the [[Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington|Third Earl of Burlington]], and built for him, in 1726–29 as an extension to an earlier [[Jacobean architecture|Jacobean]] 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, laid out by [[William Kent]], are among the most important historical gardens in England and Wales, forming one of the first [[English landscape garden]]s.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.chgt.org.uk/ | title=Chiswick House and Gardens | publisher=Chiswick House & Gardens Trust | access-date=9 October 2013 | archive-date=18 December 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161218105516/http://www.chgt.org.uk/ | url-status=live }}</ref> It was used as [[Chiswick Asylum|an asylum]] from 1892 to 1928; up to 40 private patients were housed in wings which were demolished in 1956 when the house was restored.<ref name=Bethlem>{{cite web |title=The History of Chiswick House Asylum |url=http://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/post/the-history-of-chiswick-house-asylum |website=Bethlem Museum of the Mind |access-date=30 January 2017 |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304093411/http://museumofthemind.org.uk/blog/post/the-history-of-chiswick-house-asylum |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Churches ===

[[File:Turnham Green Church 3.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Christ Church, [[Turnham Green]], by [[George Gilbert Scott]], 1843]]

[[St Nicholas Church, Chiswick|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 the tomb of [[Josiah Wedgwood]]'s business partner, [[Thomas Bentley (manufacturer)|Thomas Bentley]], designed by [[Thomas Scheemakers]].<ref>{{cite book| title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography| chapter=Thomas Scheemakers| url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101024802/Thomas-Scheemakers| archive-url=https://archive.today/20141114073649/http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101024802/Thomas-Scheemakers| url-status=dead| archive-date=14 November 2014| date=2014}}</ref> One of [[Oliver Cromwell]]'s daughters, Mary Fauconberg, lived at Sutton Court and is buried in the churchyard.<ref name=Clegg30>Clegg, 1995. p 30</ref> Enduring legend has it that the body of Oliver Cromwell was also interred with her, though as the [[Viscount Fauconberg|Fauconbergs]] did not move to Sutton Court until 15 years after his disinterment, it is more likely he was reburied at their home at [[Newburgh Priory]].<ref name=Clegg30/> Private [[Frederick Hitch]] [[Victoria Cross|VC]], hero of [[Rorke's Drift]], is also buried there.<!--Blue Plaque on Cranbrook Road--><ref>{{cite web|title=Parade planned for Chiswick's Rorke's Drift Hero |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evhitch.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=16 September 2015}}</ref>

The church of [[St Michael's Church, Grove Park|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.<ref name=BHOchurches/> 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.<ref name=BHOchurches/>

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[[St Michael and All Angels, Bedford Park]] 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 the brewer Henry Smith, churchwarden of St Nicholas, Chiswick.<ref>{{cite web |title=A brief history of the Church |url=http://www.smaaa.org.uk/church/history.html |publisher=St Michael and All Angels |access-date=19 March 2015 |archive-date=2 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402120008/http://www.smaaa.org.uk/church/history.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[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.<ref name=BHOchurches>{{cite web|title=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7, Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/middx/vol7/pp90-93|publisher=British History|pages=90–93}}</ref>

Chiswick's principal [[Roman Catholic]] church, [[Our Lady of Grace and St Edward Church|Our Lady of Grace and St Edward]] ([[St Edward the Confessor|the Confessor]]) in the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Westminster|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 was added after the First World War by Canon Egan as a war memorial.<ref>{{cite web|title=Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Grace & St Edward: Parish History|url=http://parish.rcdow.org.uk/chiswick/about-the-parish/|publisher=Diocese of Westminster|access-date=20 March 2015}}</ref>

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 Diocese of Great Britain and Western Europe|Russian Orthodox]] church built it in 1998.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jeffery |first=Paul |title=England's other cathedrals |date=2012 |publisher=History Press |location=Stroud, UK |isbn=9780752490359}}</ref>

=== Chiswick Mall ===

[[File:20210602 123430 Looking east along Chiswick Mall from Church Street.jpg|thumb|upright=1.35|[[Chiswick Mall]], looking east from Church Street. The grand houses are on the left; their waterfront gardens are on the right.]]

{{main|Chiswick Mall}}

[[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"<ref name="Clegg 2021">{{cite web |last=Clegg |first=Gill |title=Grand Houses |url=https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/search-discover/chiswick-history-homepage/grand-houses/ |publisher=Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society |date=2021 |access-date=3 June 2021}}</ref> from the [[Georgian era|Georgian]] and [[Victorian era]]s, 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.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hounslow |title=Old Chiswick: Conservation Area Appraisal: Consultation Draft |url=https://haveyoursay.hounslow.gov.uk/planning-policy/conservation-area-appraisals/supporting_documents/Old%20Chiswick%20CAA%20Draft%20Nov%202018.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207121620/https://haveyoursay.hounslow.gov.uk/planning-policy/conservation-area-appraisals/supporting_documents/Old%20Chiswick%20CAA%20Draft%20Nov%202018.pdf |archive-date=7 December 2020 |url-status=live |publisher=London Borough of Hounslow |date=November 2018}}</ref> The largest and finest<ref name="Clegg 2021"/> 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.<ref name="HE Walpole">{{cite web |title=Walpole House |url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1000846 |publisher=[[Historic England]] |access-date=2 June 2021 |ref=Grade II list 1000846 1 October 1987}}</ref>

=== Strand-on-the-Green ===

[[File:Kew Bridge and Strand-on-the-Green, 1832.jpg|thumb|Engraving of [[Kew Bridge]] and [[Strand-on-the-Green]], 1832]]

{{main|Strand-on-the-Green}}

Strand-on-the-Green is the most westerly part of Chiswick, "particularly picturesque"<ref name="SOTG LBH 2018"/> with a paved riverside path fronted by a row of "imposing"<ref name="SOTG LBH 2018"/> 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.<ref name="SOTG LBH 2018">{{cite web |title=Strand on the Green Conservation Area Appraisal |url=http://www.hwa.uk.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Apendix-5.2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622232432/http://www.hwa.uk.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Apendix-5.2.pdf |archive-date=22 June 2020 |url-status=live |publisher=[[London Borough of Hounslow]] |access-date=22 June 2020 |page=6 |date=May 2018}}</ref>

=== Bedford Park ===

{{main|Bedford Park, London}}

The [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]] neighbourhood was described by [[Nikolaus Pevsner]] as the first place "where the relaxed, informal mood of a [[market town]] or village was adopted for a complete speculatively built suburb".{{sfn|Cherry|Pevsner|1991|pp=406–410}} In 1877 the speculator [[Jonathan Carr (property developer)|Jonathan Carr]] hired Shaw as his estate architect. Shaw's house designs, in the [[British Queen Anne Revival architecture|Queen Anne Revival style]] with red brick, [[roughcast]], decorative [[gable]]s, and [[oriel window|both oriel]] and [[dormer window]]s, gave the impression of great variety using only a few types of house.<ref name="Clegg People">{{cite web |last=Clegg |first=Gillian |title=People |url=https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/search-discover/chiswick-history-homepage/people/ |publisher=Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society |access-date=10 June 2021 |archive-date=10 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210610075657/https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/search-discover/chiswick-history-homepage/people/ |url-status=live }}</ref> These were scaled-down versions of the more expensive houses that he had designed for wealthy areas such as [[Chelsea, London|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.{{sfn|Cherry|Pevsner|1991|pp=406–410}}<ref name="Girouard 1984">{{cite book |last=Girouard |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Girouard |title=Sweetness and Light: The Queen Anne Movement, 1860–1900 |publisher=[[Yale University Press]] |year=1984 |orig-year=1977 |isbn=978-0-300-03068-6 |pages=160–176}}</ref><ref name="Hidden">{{cite web |title=Bedford Park, Ealing |url=https://hidden-london.com/gazetteer/bedford-park/ |website=Hidden London |access-date=3 August 2021}}</ref>

=== Duke's Meadows ===

{{main|Duke's Meadows}}

[[Duke's Meadows]] stands on land formerly owned by the [[Duke of Devonshire]]. 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.<ref name=dukes>{{cite web |publisher=Dukes Meadows Trust |url=http://www.dukesmeadowstrust.org/aboutus.html |title=About Us |access-date=15 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140205092301/http://www.dukesmeadowstrust.org/aboutus.html |archive-date=5 February 2014  }}</ref>

[[File:Pond Dippers on Frog Day in Gunnersbury Triangle.JPG|thumb|Pond dipping in [[Gunnersbury Triangle]], a local nature reserve]]

=== Gunnersbury Triangle ===

{{main|Gunnersbury Triangle}}

The [[Gunnersbury Triangle]] [[local nature reserve]], opposite Chiswick Park Underground station, 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 (landform)|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.<ref name=LNR>{{cite web |url=http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=gunnersbury&ID=190 |title=Gunnersbury Triangle |series=Local Nature Reserves |publisher=Natural England |date=18 December 2013 |access-date=22 January 2014 |archive-date=2 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202134017/http://www.lnr.naturalengland.org.uk/Special/lnr/lnr_details.asp?C=0&N=gunnersbury&ID=190 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271008928%27|title=Map of Gunnersbury Triangle|series=Local Nature Reserves|publisher=Natural England|access-date=18 February 2014|archive-date=19 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019224137/http://magic.defra.gov.uk/MagicMap.aspx?startTopic=Designations&activelayer=lnrIndex&query=REF_CODE%3D%271008928%27|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=LWT-GT>{{cite web |url=http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/reserves/gunnersbury-triangle |title=Gunnersbury Triangle |publisher=London Wildlife Trust |access-date=30 March 2015 |archive-date=31 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531095103/http://www.wildlondon.org.uk/reserves/gunnersbury-triangle |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== Public houses and theatres ===

[[File:Mawson Arms 01.JPG|thumb|upright=0.6|The [[Mawson Arms]], briefly the home of the poet [[Alexander Pope]]]]

There are several historic [[public house]]s in Chiswick, some of them [[listed building]]s, including the [[Mawson Arms]],<ref>{{NHLE |desc=Ye Fox And Hounds And Mawson Arms And Nos. 112–118 |num=1358692 |access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> the [[George and Devonshire]],<ref>{{NHLE |desc=The George And Devonshire Arms Public House |num=1358664 |access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> the [[Old Packhorse]]<ref>{{NHLE|desc=The Old Packhorse Public House |num=1240781 |access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> and [[The Tabard (Chiswick)|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.<ref name="English Heritage">{{NHLE |desc=Tabard Hotel public house |num=1079594 |access-date=19 October 2014}}</ref> Three more pubs are in [[Strand-on-the-Green]], fronting on to the Thames river path.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Hounslow London Borough Council |url=http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/conservation.pdf |title=Conservation Areas |access-date=1 February 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071213140222/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/conservation.pdf |archive-date=13 December 2007 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>

Chiswick had two well-known theatres in the 20th century.{{sfn|Clegg|1995|pp=95–97}} The [[Chiswick Empire]] (1912 to 1959) was at 414 Chiswick High Road. It had 2,140 seats,<ref>{{cite book |last=Looby |first=Patrick |title=Britain in Old Photographs, Chiswick & Brentford |publisher=Sutton Publishing |date=1997 |isbn=0-7509-1151-4}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |last=Roe |first=Ken |title=Q Theatre |url=http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/28233 |publisher=Cinema Treasures |access-date=3 February 2016 |archive-date=7 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151007083126/http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/28233 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The 96-seat [[Tabard Theatre]] (1985) in Bath Road, upstairs from the Tabard pub but a separate business, is known for new writing and experimental work.<ref name=Tabard>Tabard Theatre – [http://www.tabardweb.co.uk/history.htm History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140719164638/http://tabardweb.co.uk/history.htm |date=19 July 2014 }}. Retrieved on 20 August 2010.</ref>

=== Other buildings ===

[[File:Voysey House Sandersons Building design by CFA Voysey 1902.jpg|thumb| [[Arthur Sanderson & Sons|Sanderson]] wallpaper factory design by [[Charles Voysey (architect)|Charles Voysey]], 1902]]
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The [[Arthur Sanderson & Sons|Sanderson]] Factory in Barley Mow Passage, now known as Voysey House, was designed by the architect [[Charles Voysey (architect)|Charles Voysey]] in 1902. It is built in white glazed brick, with [[Staffordshire blue brick]]s (now painted black) forming horizontal bands, the plinth, and surrounds for door and window openings, and dressings in [[Portland stone]]. It 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".<ref>{{cite web | title=Voysey House, Hounslow | url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-202394-voysey-house-greater-london-authority | publisher=British Listed Buildings | access-date=9 October 2013 | archive-date=21 October 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131021000933/http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-202394-voysey-house-greater-london-authority | url-status=live }}</ref>

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 the creation of refuges worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/9020206.Pizzey_calls_for_more_domestic_abuse_shelters |title=Pizzey calls for more domestic abuse shelters |website=Richmond and Twickenham Times |date=12 May 2011 |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-date=15 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815091108/http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/9020206.Pizzey_calls_for_more_domestic_abuse_shelters/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/battered-erin-pizzey-yes-a-bit-1272122.html |title=Battered? Erin Pizzey? Yes, a bit |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=15 August 2018 |archive-date=19 April 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140419150356/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/battered-erin-pizzey-yes-a-bit-1272122.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Chiswick is home to the [[Arts Educational Schools]] in Bath Road.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://artsed.co.uk/ | title=Arts Educational Schools London | publisher=Arts Educational Schools London | date=2014 | access-date=24 April 2014 | archive-date=16 May 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140516221211/http://artsed.co.uk/ | url-status=live }}</ref>

The house used for filming the comedy show ''[[Taskmaster (TV series)|Taskmaster]]'', a former groundskeeper's cottage, is just off Great Chertsey Road, near [[Chiswick Bridge]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Where is the Taskmaster house? You can actually visit the filming location |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/taskmaster-house-filming-location/ |publisher=Radio Times |access-date=28 March 2021 |date=18 March 2021 |archive-date=19 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319033502/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/entertainment/taskmaster-house-filming-location/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

== Transport ==

[[File:Chiswick-Bridge-15-540-3.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.7|The design of [[Chiswick Bridge]], opened in 1933, has been praised as reflecting the [[Palladian architecture]] of [[Chiswick House]].<ref>''Country Life'', 8 July 1933, quoted in {{citation |last=Cookson |first=Brian |title=Crossing the River |publisher=Mainstream |location=Edinburgh |year=2006 |isbn=1-84018-976-2 |oclc=63400905 |page=69}}</ref>]]

Chiswick is situated at the start of the [[North Circular Road]] (A406), [[A205 road|South Circular Road]] (A205) and the [[M4 motorway]], the latter providing a direct connection to [[Heathrow Airport]] and the [[M25 motorway]]. The [[A4 road (Great Britain)|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 (Great Britain)|M3 motorway]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Area Map |url=http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/chiswick_area_map.pdf |publisher=Hounslow Borough Council |access-date=16 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150908213443/http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/chiswick_area_map.pdf |archive-date=8 September 2015 }}</ref>

The southern border of Chiswick runs along the River Thames, which is crossed in this area by [[Barnes Railway Bridge|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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thames River Boats |url=http://wpsa.co.uk/routemapdisplay.html |publisher=WPSA |access-date=16 September 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009065954/http://www.wpsa.co.uk/routemapdisplay.html |archive-date=9 October 2015  }}</ref>

Bus routes on or near Chiswick High Road are the [[London Buses route 94|94]], [[London Buses route 110|110]], [[London Buses route 237|237]], [[London Buses route 267|267]], [[London Buses route 272|272]], [[London Buses route 440|440]], [[London Buses route E3|E3]] and [[London Buses route H91|H91]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Buses from Hammersmith |url=https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/hammersmith-a4-121220.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201220143611/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/hammersmith-a4-121220.pdf |archive-date=20 December 2020 |url-status=live |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref> The 94 is a 24-hour service, and the High Road is also served at night by the [[London Buses route N9|N9]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Buses from Marble Arch |url=https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/marble-arch-a4-0319.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223150434/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/marble-arch-a4-0319.pdf |archive-date=23 February 2020 |url-status=live |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Night Buses from Hammersmith |url=https://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/hammersmith-night-a4-071219.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512191803/http://content.tfl.gov.uk/bus-route-maps/hammersmith-night-a4-071219.pdf |archive-date=12 May 2020 |url-status=live |publisher=Transport for London |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref>

The [[District line]] serves Chiswick with four [[London Underground stations]], [[Stamford Brook tube station|Stamford Brook]], [[Turnham Green tube station|Turnham Green]], [[Chiswick Park tube station|Chiswick Park]] and [[Gunnersbury tube station|Gunnersbury]].<ref name=LudlowThompson>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Area Guide |url=https://www.ludlowthompson.com/area_guides_Chiswick/Chiswick-222.htm |publisher=Ludlow Thompson |access-date=16 September 2015 |archive-date=28 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150928222420/https://www.ludlowthompson.com/area_guides_Chiswick/Chiswick-222.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Turnham Green is an interchange with the [[Piccadilly line]], but only before 06:50 and after 22:30, when Piccadilly line trains stop at 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]].<ref name=LudlowThompson/> The [[North London line]] crosses Chiswick (north-south); [[London Overground]] stations are [[Gunnersbury railway station|Gunnersbury]] and [[South Acton railway station (England)|South Acton]].<ref name=LudlowThompson/>

==Sport==

[[File:Boat Race Finish post.jpg|thumb|[[The Boat Race]] finishing post by Chiswick Bridge]]

Chiswick's local rugby union teams include Chiswick RFC, formerly Old Meadonians RFC. The team plays league games on a Saturday at Dukes Meadows.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Rugby Football Club |url=http://www.chiswickrugby.co.uk/ |access-date=27 November 2014 |archive-date=19 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219095340/http://www.chiswickrugby.co.uk/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Chiswick's cricket club, formerly known as Turnham Green and Polytechnic, plays at Riverside Drive.<ref>{{cite web |title=Welcome to Chiswick Cricket Club |url=http://www.chiswickcc.co.uk/ |publisher=Chiswick Cricket Club |access-date=3 July 2016 |archive-date=13 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161013054244/http://www.chiswickcc.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rocks Lane Chiswick |url=http://www.openplay.co.uk/view/403/rocks-lane-chiswick |publisher=OpenPlay |access-date=27 November 2014 |archive-date=5 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205045902/http://www.openplay.co.uk/view/403/rocks-lane-chiswick |url-status=live }}</ref> Private tennis coaching for individuals and groups is also available.<ref>{{cite web |title=Rocks Lane Chiswick Tennis Coaching |url=http://www.tennisteach.co.uk |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805070734/http://www.tennisteach.co.uk/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=5 August 2010 |publisher=TennisTeach |access-date=17 February 2015}}</ref>

The Chiswick reach of the Thames is heavily used for competitive and recreational [[Rowing (sport)|rowing]]. [[The Championship Course]] from [[Mortlake]] to [[Putney]] runs past Chiswick Eyot and Duke's Meadows. [[The Boat Race]] 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Course |url=http://theboatraces.org/the-course |website=The Boat Race |access-date=16 September 2015 |archive-date=28 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028142856/http://theboatraces.org/the-course |url-status=dead}}</ref> Other important races such as the [[Head of the River Race]] race the reverse course, on an ebb tide.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Head of the River Race |url=http://www.horr.co.uk/ |access-date=16 September 2015 |archive-date=6 January 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060106144021/http://www.horr.co.uk/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Chiswick is home to several clubs. The [[University of London Boat Club]] 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.<ref>{{cite web |title=University of London Boat Club |url=http://ulbc.co.uk/#about |publisher=ULBC |access-date=16 September 2015 |archive-date=6 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006092636/http://ulbc.co.uk/#about |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Quintin Boat Club]] lies between Chiswick Quay Marina and Chiswick Bridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Quintin Boat Club |url=http://quintinboatclub.org/index.php |access-date=16 September 2015 |archive-date=21 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150921021336/http://quintinboatclub.org/index.php |url-status=live }}</ref> [[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 (sculler)|Alan Campbell]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Tideway Scullers |url=http://tidewayscullers.squarespace.com/ |access-date=16 September 2015 |archive-date=4 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160204030708/http://tidewayscullers.squarespace.com/ |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Chiswick High Road was once home to the ''Chequered Flag'' garage and engineering company which made the [[Gemini (racing car)|Gemini racing car]], and its associated [[motor racing]] team.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Chequered Flag, A Brief History |url=http://www.hrscc.co.nz/gemini1.html |publisher=The Historic Racing and Sports Car Club |access-date=16 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=At the Sign of the Chequered Flag |journal=[[Motor Sport (magazine)|Motor Sport]] |date=May 1960 |issue=May 1960 |page=29}}</ref>

== Notable people ==

{{further|St Nicholas Church, Chiswick}}

=== 17th century ===

[[File:Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg, by circle of Thomas Murray, c 1700.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Mary Cromwell, Countess Fauconberg]], c. 1700]]

[[Mary Cromwell]], daughter of [[Oliver Cromwell]], lived in [[Sutton Manor, Chiswick|Sutton Manor]] in Little Sutton from 1676 to her death in 1713. She was married to [[Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg]], who supported Parliament during the [[English Civil War]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Anderson |first1=James |title=Memorable Women of the Puritan Times |date=1862 |publisher=[[Blackie and Son]] |page=1 |volume=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Wisdom |first=James |title=Sutton Court, the Earl of Burlington & Chiswick House Grounds |url=https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/sutton-court-the-earl-of-burlinlton-and-chiswick-house-grounds-by-james-wisdom/ |journal=Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society Journal |issue=17 |access-date=18 July 2021 |date=2008}}</ref>

=== 18th century ===

[[File:Hogarths house 5832.JPG|thumb|left|[[Hogarth's House]], later the home of the poet [[Henry Francis Cary]] ]]

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.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/literarygazettee00lois |url-access=registration |quote=Mawson Arms Alexander Pope. |title=A literary gazetteer of England |last=Fisher |first=Lois H. |publisher=McGraw-Hill |year=1980|isbn=9780070210981 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web  |url=http://www.fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=101  |title=Start or finish your Brewery Tour with lunch at the Mawson Arms |work=fullers.co.uk  |access-date=21 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140628020730/http://fullers.co.uk/rte.asp?id=101  |archive-date=28 June 2014 |url-status=dead  }}</ref>  The actor [[Charles Holland (actor, born 1733)|Charles Holland]] was born in Chiswick in 1733.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HNed_aEZXdMC&pg=PA373 |title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & and Other Stage Personnel in London: 1660–1800, Volume 7 |last1=Highfill |first1=Philip H. |last2=Burnim |first2=Kalman A. |last3=Langhans |first3=Edward A. |publisher=SIU Press |year=1982 |isbn=978-0809309184}}</ref> The artist [[William Hogarth]] bought the house now known as [[Hogarth's House]] in 1749,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hounslow.info/arts-culture/historic-houses-museums/hogarth-house/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027084516/http://www.hounslow.info/arts-culture/historic-houses-museums/hogarth-house/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=27 October 2012 |title=Hogarth's House &#124; Hounslow.info |work= hounslow.info |access-date=21 May 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/031005/n031005_24.htm |title=Camden New Journal |last=Taylor |first=Joel |work=camdennewjournal.co.uk |date=11 March 2005 |access-date=21 May 2013 |archive-date=5 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205055546/http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/031005/n031005_24.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> lived there until his death in 1764, and is buried in St Nicholas's churchyard.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stnicholaschiswick.org/heritage/StNicholasChiswick-TheChurchyard.shtml|title=St Nicholas Chiswick – The Churchyard|work=stnicholaschiswick.org |access-date=21 May 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130705015304/http://www.stnicholaschiswick.org/heritage/StNicholasChiswick-TheChurchyard.shtml |archive-date=5 July 2013 }}</ref>{{sfn|Cherry|Pevsner|1991|p=404}} The house later belonged to the poet and translator of [[Dante]], [[Henry Francis Cary]], who lived there from 1814 to 1833.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Maev |title=Hogarth's house to reopen after surviving fire – and urban sprawl |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/nov/07/william-hogarth-house-reopens-chiswick |access-date=11 October 2015 |work=The Guardian |date=7 November 2011}}</ref> In February 1766 [[Jean-Jacques Rousseau]] lived a few weeks with a local grocer<!-- on Church Street, at the corner with Burlington Lane-->, before moving to [[Wootton, Staffordshire]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rousseau-chronologie.com/fuiteenangleterre66-c.html |title=Chronologie de Jean-Jacques Rousseau |website=www.rousseau-chronologie.com |access-date=29 December 2020}}</ref> The painter [[Johann Zoffany]] lived on Strand-on-the-Green.<ref>{{cite web |title=Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) |url=https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/this-is-chiswick/blue-plaques/johann-zoffany/ |publisher=The Chiswick Calendar |access-date=10 January 2023 |archive-date=10 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110143407/https://chiswickcalendar.co.uk/this-is-chiswick/blue-plaques/johann-zoffany/ |url-status=live }}</ref>{{Clear}}

=== 19th century ===

[[File:Bath Road, London by Camille Pissarro.jpg|thumb|left|''[[Bath Road, London|Bath Road]], London'', 1897. [[Impressionist]] painting of Bath Road, [[Bedford Park, London|Bedford Park]] by [[Camille Pissarro]] ]]

Two prominent early 19th century politicians both died, in the same room, at Chiswick House - [[Whig Party (United Kingdom)|Whig]] [[Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom)|Foreign Secretary]] [[Charles James Fox]] in 1806<ref>{{cite video|author=Mitchell, Leslie|title=Charles James Fox|date=2007|publisher=[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]|ref={{harvid|Mitchell|2007}}}}</ref> and [[Tories (British political party)|Tory]] [[List of Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[George Canning]] in 1827.<ref>{{cite web| url=https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/george-canning| title=History of George Canning| work=GOV.UK| access-date=15 September 2025| archive-date=8 July 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708171202/https://www.gov.uk/government/history/past-prime-ministers/george-canning| url-status=live}}</ref>

The Italian writer, revolutionary and poet [[Ugo Foscolo]] died in exile at Turnham Green in 1827,<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K5Q3AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA566 |title=Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review Volume 97, Part 2 |pages=566–569 |year=1827 |access-date=21 May 2013}}</ref> and was buried at St Nicholas Churchyard, Chiswick, where his monument remains, although in 1871 his body was 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.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CXRUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA603 |title=Bentley's Miscellany |page=603 |publisher=J. M. Lewer |year=1839 |access-date=21 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last=Riall |first=Lucy | title=Garibaldi : invention of a hero | publisher=Yale University Press | year=2007 | page=4}}</ref>

The inventor of the [[electric telegraph]], [[Francis Ronalds]], lived on Chiswick Lane from 1833 to 1852.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph |last=Ronalds |first=B.F. |publisher=Imperial College Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78326-917-4 |pages=48–49}}</ref> Another engineer, [[John Edward Thornycroft]] was born in Chiswick in 1872;<ref>{{cite web |url= http://heritage.imeche.org/Biographies/JohnThornycroft |title= Sir John E Thornycroft |work= heritage.imeche.org |access-date= 21 May 2013 |archive-date= 1 August 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130801132102/http://heritage.imeche.org/Biographies/JohnThornycroft |url-status= live }}</ref> his father, [[John Isaac Thornycroft]], had founded the Chiswick-based [[John I. Thornycroft & Company]] shipbuilding company in 1864, which Thornycroft later joined and developed.<ref>Humphrey Arthure: "Thornycroft Shipbuilding and Motor Works in Chiswick".</ref> The artist [[Montague Dawson]], regarded as one of the best 20th-century [[marine art|painters of the sea]], was born in Chiswick in 1895.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/montague-dawson/ |title=Montague Dawson on artnet |work=artnet.com |publisher=[[artnet]] |access-date=21 May 2013}}</ref>

[[File:Sketch of Petersham Methodist Chapel and Turnham Green Congregational Church by Vincent Van Gogh c1875.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Sketch of Turnham Green Congregational Church (right) by [[Vincent van Gogh]], c. 1875. He taught Sunday school in the iron structure.<ref name="Clegg 2001 van Gogh"/>]]

The painter [[Vincent van Gogh]] spent three years in Chiswick in the 1870s, teaching Sunday school pupils in the newly-constructed Chiswick Congregational Church, which was on the site of the Arlington Park Mansions on Turnham Green; he wrote of Chiswick as a "verdant" district of London.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wall Street Journal Tells Readers to Pay a Visit to Chiswick: Describes it as a lush paradise that inspired Van Gogh |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb411.htm |access-date=3 July 2023 |work=Chiswick W4 |date=2 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Longworth |first=Mary Lou |title=Visiting London? Don't Skip Chiswick, a Lush Paradise that Inspired Van Gogh, W.B. Yeats and More |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/visiting-london-dont-skip-chiswick-a-lush-paradise-that-inspired-van-gogh-w-b-yeats-and-more-262471e7?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1 |work=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=29 June 2023 |quote=More than pretty gardens draw people to this leafy suburb. The other lures: trendy gastropubs, cheese toasties and the haunting traces of centuries of artists and writers.}}</ref><ref name="Clegg 2001 van Gogh">{{cite web |last=Clegg |first=Gillian |title=Van Gogh In Chiswick |url=https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/publications/the-journal/journal-10-2000/van-gogh-in-chiswick/ |publisher=Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society |access-date=3 July 2023 |date=2001}}</ref>

The poet [[W. B. Yeats]] lived in Woodstock Road as a boy from 1879, and came back in 1887 to live in Blenheim Road, where, inspired by Chiswick Eyot, he wrote ''[[The Lake Isle of Innisfree]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Chiswick Statue Planned To Honour WB Yeats |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=yeatsmemorialbedfordpark001.htm |publisher=ChiswickW4.com |access-date=28 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Yeats in Bedford Park |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conyeats.htm |publisher=ChiswickW4.com |access-date=28 June 2015 |archive-date=30 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150630131250/http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conyeats.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Pissarro family of painters, the impressionist [[Camille Pissarro]], his eldest son [[Lucien Pissarro|Lucien]], as well as Felix and Ludovic-Rodo lived in 62 Bath Road, Chiswick around 1897; with Camille Pissarro painting a series of notable landscapes of the area.<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=uz7exM6SuvgC&pg=PA30 |title=Pissarro in West London: Kew, Chiswick and Richmond |last=Reed |first=Nicholas |pages=30–35 |publisher=Lilburne Press |date=1997 |isbn=9781901167023 |access-date=23 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/publications/the-journal/journal-6-1997/camille-pissarro-paintings-of-stamford-brook-1897/ |title=Camille Pissarro: Paintings of Stamford Brook, 1897 &#124; Brentford & Chiswick Local History Society |last=Seaton |first=Shirley |work=brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk |year=2013 |access-date=23 May 2013 |archive-date=18 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118152927/https://brentfordandchiswicklhs.org.uk/publications/the-journal/journal-6-1997/camille-pissarro-paintings-of-stamford-brook-1897/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The landscape artist [[Lewis Pinhorn Wood]] lived at Homefield Road<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.elfordfineart.co.uk/viewimg.php?id=301 | title=Lewis Pinhorn WOOD (exhibited 1870 – 1913) | publisher=Elford Fine Art | work=[[:File:Arrival of steamer at the old Kew Bridge (undated) by Lewis Pinhorn Wood.jpg|Arrival of a Steamer at the Old Kew Bridge]] | access-date=23 February 2014 | archive-date=1 March 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140301002456/http://www.elfordfineart.co.uk/viewimg.php?id=301 | url-status=dead }}</ref> from 1897 to 1908.

=== 20th century ===

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[[File:Arlington Park Mansions - Entrance.jpg|thumb|left|Arlington Park Mansions, facing [[Turnham Green]], with [[E. M. Forster]] blue plaque]]

In the twentieth century, the novelist [[E. M. Forster]] (1879–1970) lived at 9 Arlington Park Mansions<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T7B0weoOofEC&q=e.m.+forster+chiswick&pg=PT423 |title=E. M. Forster: A New Life |publisher=Bloomsbury |last=Moffat |first=Wendy |year=2011|isbn=9781408824276 }}</ref> from 1939 until at least 1961.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.notableabodes.com/person-abode-details/4442/em-forster-author_9-arlington-park-mansions-sutton-lane-chiswick-london |title=E.M. Forster 9 Arlington Park Mansions, Sutton Lane, Chiswick, London |publisher=Notable Abodes |year=2011 |access-date=23 May 2013 |archive-date=19 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819125735/http://www.notableabodes.com/person-abode-details/4442/em-forster-author_9-arlington-park-mansions-sutton-lane-chiswick-london |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[John Osborne]] (1929–1994) wrote his play ''[[Look Back in Anger]]'' on his [[houseboat]] at Cubitts Yacht Basin.<ref name="CBF Writers Trail">{{cite web |title=Writers Trail |url=https://www.chiswickbookfestival.net/chiswick-timeline-writers-trail/ |publisher=Chiswick Book Festival |access-date=10 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605163630/https://www.chiswickbookfestival.net/chiswick-timeline-writers-trail/ |archive-date=5 June 2021 |date=2021}}</ref>

Notable people born before the [[Second World War]] include the cricketers [[Patsy Hendren]] (1899–1962)<ref>{{cite web |title=Patsy Hendren |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14158.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018 |archive-date=5 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170205153224/http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14158.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[Jack Robertson (English cricketer)|Jack Robertson]] (1917–1996),<ref>{{cite web |title=Jack Robertson |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/19423.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> the editor and publisher [[Kaye Webb]] (1914-1996),<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/60767 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/60767 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B. |url-access=subscription }}</ref> the novelist [[Iris Murdoch]] (1919–1999) who lived on Eastbourne Road,<ref name="W4 Murdoch"/> the theatre and film director [[Peter Brook]] (1925–2022),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/arts/24iht-bookwed.html?_r=0 |work=The New York Times |first=Arnold |last=Aronson |title=Peter Brook: A Biography |date=25 May 2005 |archive-date=20 December 2013 |access-date=18 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131220060732/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/24/arts/24iht-bookwed.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Kustow2013>{{cite book |last=Kustow |first=Michael |title=Peter Brook: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JV15AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA5|access-date=20 July 2015|date=17 October 2013|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-4088-5228-6|pages=5–7}}</ref> the [[Winchester College]] headmaster [[John Leonard Thorn]] (1925–2023),<ref name="Telegraph Obituary">{{cite news |title=John Thorn, visionary headmaster who steered Winchester through the tumultuous late 1960s and 1970s – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2023/11/01/john-thorn-headmaster-winchester-repton-sixties/ |access-date=1 November 2023 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=1 November 2023}}</ref> the zoologist and broadcaster [[Aubrey Manning]] (1930–2018),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-rules-life-meet-aubrey |title=OU on the BBC: Rules of Life – Meet Aubrey |publisher=Open University |date=24 October 2005 |access-date=24 May 2013 |archive-date=29 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180729143158/http://www.open.edu/openlearn/whats-on/ou-on-the-bbc-rules-life-meet-aubrey |url-status=dead }}</ref> and marine geologist [[Frederick Vine]] (1939–&nbsp;).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Science/021M-C1379X0025XX-0001V0 |title=Oral History of British Science: Vine, Fred |publisher=British Library |access-date=24 May 2013 |archive-date=19 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419012335/http://sounds.bl.uk/Oral-history/Science/021M-C1379X0025XX-0001V0 |url-status=live }}</ref> The comic song performer [[Michael Flanders]] (1922–1975) spent the last years of his life in Bedford Park.<ref>{{Cite ODNB|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/31113|title=Flanders, Michael Henry (1922â€"1975), actor and lyricist|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/31113}}</ref> The actress [[Sylvia Syms]] (1934–2023), star of films such as ''[[Ice Cold in Alex]]'', lived on Dukes Avenue.<ref>{{cite news |title=Dukes Avenue Resident Sylvia Syms Dies Aged 89: Actress had career in stage, film and TV spanning six decades |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb409.htm |access-date=28 January 2023 |work=Chiswick W4 |date=28 January 2023 |archive-date=28 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230128214931/http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb409.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[The Who]] rock musicians [[John Entwistle]] (1944–2002) and [[Pete Townshend]] (1945–&nbsp;) were both born in Chiswick during the [[Second World War]].<ref>{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=P_zYB4irg8UC&pg=PA278 |title=Behind Blue Eyes: The Life of Pete Townshend |last=Giuliano |first=Geoffrey |page=278 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2002 |isbn=978-0815410706}}</ref> [[Deep Purple]] lead singer [[Ian Gillan]] was born in Chiswick on 19 August 1945.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gillan |first1=Ian |author-link1=Ian Gillan |title=Child in Time: The Life Story of the Singer from Deep Purple |last2=Cohen |first2=David |year=1993 |publisher=Smith Gryphon |isbn=1-85685-048-X |page=2}}</ref><!-- Bluelinks with full references only please, no uncited entries, thanks -->

Those born in Chiswick during the post-war period include the rock musician [[Dave Cousins]],<ref name="Cousins and Donegan">{{cite web |title=Rock Legend to Share Memories of Growing Up in Chiswick |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evgeorgeiv2211.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=14 November 2022 |date=13 November 2022}}</ref> the cricketer [[Mike Selvey]] (1948–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Selvey |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/20105.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> television presenter [[Sally James (presenter)|Sally James]] (born 1950-&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite news |last=Montgomery |first=Elizabeth |title=Your stars |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=9 May 1987 |page=20}}</ref><ref name="BOB">{{cite magazine |last=Robertson |first=Peter |title=A proper Tiswas |magazine=Best of British |publisher=Diamond Publishing |location=London |issue=276 |date=July 2019 |pages=20–21}}</ref> the musician [[Phil Collins]] (1951–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317163/Phil-Collins-becomes-a-father-again-at-age-of-50.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317163/Phil-Collins-becomes-a-father-again-at-age-of-50.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title= Phil Collins becomes a father again at age of 50 |work=The Daily Telegraph |first=Hugh |last=Davies |date=25 April 2001 |access-date=16 August 2014}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the singer [[Kim Wilde]] (1960–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wilde-life.com/magazines/intro1/index.html |title=Introductory Magazine |publisher=The Official Fan Club for Kim Wilde |access-date=24 May 2013 |pages=4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120210141607/http://www.wilde-life.com/magazines/intro1/index.html |archive-date=10 February 2012 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> illustrator [[Clifford Harper]] (1949–&nbsp;), the photographer [[Derek Ridgers]] (1950–&nbsp;),<ref>{{cite book |title=How We Are: Photographing Britain, from the 1840s to the Present |publisher=Tate |last1=Williams |first1=Val |last2=Bright |first2=Susan |year=2007 |pages=219 |isbn=978-1-85437-7142}}</ref> the actress [[Kate Beckinsale]] (1973–&nbsp;),<ref>{{citation|title=Kate Beckinsale's Chiswick Homecoming|publisher=Chiswick W4<!--|access-date=28 June 2016-->|date=8 September 2003|quote=... to return to live in Chiswick. The 30 year old daughter ...}}</ref> the comedian [[Mel Smith]] (1952–2013),<ref>{{cite news |last=Cavendish |first=Dominic |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3653973/Im-hoping-to-cover-my-air-fare.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3653973/Im-hoping-to-cover-my-air-fare.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=I'm hoping to cover my air fare |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=22 July 2006 |access-date=24 May 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> and the cricketer [[Dimitri Mascarenhas]] (1977–&nbsp;).<ref>{{cite web |title=Dimitri Mascarenhas |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/16932.html |publisher=ESPN Sports Media |access-date=29 July 2018}}</ref> <!-- British English, and Bluelinks with full references only please, no uncited entries, thanks -->

[[File:Anthony Burgess appearing on "After Dark", 21 May 1988.jpg|thumb|The novelist [[Anthony Burgess]] lived in Chiswick in the 1960s.<ref name="Biswell 2006"/>]]

Among those who have lived in Chiswick are the novelist [[Anthony Burgess]] (1917–1993), at 24 Glebe Street in the mid-1960s;<ref name="Biswell 2006">{{cite book |last=Biswell |first=Andrew |title=The Real Life of Anthony Burgess |year=2006 |publisher=Picador |page=307 |isbn=978-0-330-48171-7}}</ref> the playwright [[Harold Pinter]] (1930–2008) who lived at 373 Chiswick High Road;<ref name="W4 Murdoch">{{cite web |title=Iris Murdoch Deemed Top Pick for Next Chiswick Blue Plaque |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evchisbookfestival094.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=19 October 2021 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019140219/http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evchisbookfestival094.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> the pianist and broadcaster [[Sidney Harrison]] (1903–1986) who in the 1960s lived at 57 Hartington Road<ref>''Musical Times'' No 1426, December 1961, p 749 (Front Matter)</ref> and later at 37 The Avenue;<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi-xCwAAQBAJ&dq=%22The+Young+Person%E2%80%99s+Guide+to+Playing+the+Piano%E2%80%9D+%22Harrison%22&pg=PA534|title=Writers Directory|first=NA|last=NA|date=5 March 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-03650-9 |via=Google Books}}</ref> the musical double act [[Bob and Alf Pearson]], Bob (1907–1985) on Netheravon Road in the 1940s,<ref>{{cite web |title=Bob Pearson (Musician) |url=http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135256/bob-pearson-musician |access-date=14 March 2021 |website=Notable Abodes |archive-date=28 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228034115/http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135256/bob-pearson-musician |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Alf (1910–2012) on Linden Gardens in the 1950s;<ref>{{cite web|title=Alf Pearson (Musician)|url=http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135257/alf-pearson-musician|access-date=14 March 2021|website=Notable Abodes|archive-date=23 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200923122528/http://www.notableabodes.com/people-search-results/person-details/135257/alf-pearson-musician|url-status=dead}}</ref> the pop artist [[Peter Blake (artist)|Peter Blake]] (1932–), in Chiswick since 1967,<ref>{{cite news |last=Nikkhah |first=Roya |title=Sir Peter Blake: why I chose Pop over pot |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7908366/Sir-Peter-Blake-why-I-chose-Pop-over-pot.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/7908366/Sir-Peter-Blake-why-I-chose-Pop-over-pot.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=20 November 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref> with a "vast" studio in a former [[ironmonger]]'s warehouse;<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last=Barber |first=Lynn |title=Blake's progress |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/jun/17/art2 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 June 2007 |archive-date=5 October 2014 |access-date=16 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141005005634/http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2007/jun/17/art2 |url-status=live }}</ref> the actor [[Hugh Grant]] (1960–&nbsp;), who grew up in Chiswick, living next to Arlington Park Mansions on Sutton Lane; the singer [[Bruce Dickinson]] (1958–&nbsp;) of the band [[Iron Maiden]];<ref>{{cite book |last=Keaveny |first=Shaun |author-link=Shaun Keaveny |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sRHqKuTdfb0C&pg=PA11 |title=R2d2 Lives In Preston |page=11 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |date=2010 |isbn=9780752227450 |access-date=23 May 2013}}</ref> the TV presenter [[Kate Humble]] (1968–&nbsp;);<ref>{{cite news |last=Swinford |first=Steven |title=Kate Humble: I lived in a squat and took drugs |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10008743/Kate-Humble-I-lived-in-a-squat-and-took-drugs.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10008743/Kate-Humble-I-lived-in-a-squat-and-took-drugs.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=21 April 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref> the actress [[Elizabeth McGovern]] (1961–&nbsp;) and her husband, film director [[Simon Curtis (filmmaker)|Simon Curtis]] (1960–&nbsp;);<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/hollywood-never-suited-me-elizabeth-mcgovern-on-fleeing-la-and-downton-abbeyrsquos-lady-cora-2161323.html |title='Hollywood never suited me': Elizabeth McGovern on fleeing LA and Downton Abbey's Lady Cora |last=Gilbert |first=Gerard |date=18 December 2010 |work=[[The Independent]] |access-date=24 May 2013 |archive-date=30 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030164050/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/hollywood-never-suited-me-elizabeth-mcgovern-on-fleeing-la-and-downton-abbeyrsquos-lady-cora-2161323.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the American lawyer [[John Lowenthal]] (1925–2003),<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lowenthal |first=John |author-link=John Lowenthal |title=Venona and Alger Hiss |magazine=[[Times Literary Supplement]] |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/venona-and-alger-hiss/ |date=2 July 1999 |access-date=8 October 2017 |archive-date=14 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014233933/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/venona-and-alger-hiss/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Lowenthal |first=John |author-link=John Lowenthal |title=Views of Alger Hiss |magazine=Times Literary Supplement |url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/views-of-alger-hiss/ |date=13 August 1999 |access-date=8 October 2017 |archive-date=9 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009092333/https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/views-of-alger-hiss/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the actor [[Imogen Stubbs]] who lived on a barge<ref>{{cite news |last=Kellaway |first=Kate |author-link=Kate Kellaway |title=Imogen Stubbs: 'There's a world I want to seize while I can' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2011/nov/13/imogen-stubbs-salt-root-roe-interview |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=13 November 2011}}</ref> and attended Cavendish Primary School,<ref name=weale2018>{{cite news |last=Weale |first=Sally |newspaper=The Guardian |date=20 April 2018 |title=Imogen Stubbs laments 'awful treadmill' of UK education system |url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/apr/20/imogen-stubbs-uk-education-system-treadmill-be-all-and-end-all}}</ref> the singer [[Lonnie Donegan]]<!--c. 1960s-->,<ref name="Cousins and Donegan"/> the musician and songwriter [[Noel Gallagher]] (1967–),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Horton |first=Matthew |date=24 April 2013 |title=18 Things You Might Not Know About Oasis's 'Some Might Say' |url=https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/18-things-you-might-not-know-about-oasiss-some-might-say-765579 |access-date=3 January 2023 |website=NME |archive-date=8 October 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008164408/https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/18-things-you-might-not-know-about-oasiss-some-might-say-765579 |url-status=live }}</ref> the model [[Cara Delevingne]] (1992–&nbsp;),<ref name=W424Nov2014>{{cite news |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb342.htm |title=Supermodel set to move to Chiswick |publisher=ChiswickW4 |date=24 November 2014 |access-date=29 July 2018 |archive-date=7 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307102627/http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb342.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and the athlete [[Georgia Hunter Bell]] (1993–&nbsp;) who went to school in Chiswick.<ref>{{cite news |title=Georgia Hunter Bell is Champion of the World: Wins gold in the 1500 metres indoor event in Poland |url=https://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=leisure&page=spgeorgiabell008.htm |work=Chiswick W4 |date=24 March 2026}}</ref><!-- Bluelinks with full references only please, no uncited entries, thanks -->

=== 21st century ===

The playwright [[Michael Frayn]] (1933–&nbsp;) and his daughter the film maker and novelist [[Rebecca Frayn]] <!--(1962–&nbsp;)--> live in Chiswick.<ref>{{cite news |title=Rebecca Frayn's Deceptions |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conauthor003.htm |access-date=12 June 2016 |agency=Chiswick W4.com |date=10 June 2016}}</ref> Chiswick residents have included the singer [[Sophie Ellis-Bextor]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> the TV journalists [[Alice Arnold (broadcaster)|Alice Arnold]],<ref name="W4 2016">{{cite news |title=Sophie Ellis Bextor Sings At 50th Green Days Festival. Chiswick celebrities also joined the line-up for the opening event |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=evbpf113.htm |access-date=12 June 2016 |agency=Chiswick W4.com |date=10 June 2016}}</ref> [[Fergal Keane]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> [[Rageh Omaar]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> and [[Jeremy Vine]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> and the actors [[Phyllis Logan]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> [[Colin Firth]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> [[David Tennant]], [[Georgia Tennant]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/jul/08/were-not-squeamish-david-tennant-on-privacy-parenting-and-playing-himself |title='We're not squeamish!' David Tennant on privacy, parenting and playing himself |work=[[The Guardian]] |first=Elle |last=Hunt |date=8 July 2020 |access-date=18 November 2021}}</ref> <!--[[Timothy Dalton]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/licence-to-go-to-the-shops-7244878.html |title=Licence to go to the shops |date=11 April 2012 |work=Evening Standard |quote="as well as his place in California also has a home in Chiswick, West London"}}</ref> not sure that having a 2nd home in Chiswick makes him a "resident", we'd need another source for that--> and [[Vanessa Redgrave]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Damehood for Vanessa Redgrave in New Year's Honours: Chiswick-based actor and activist 'surprised' at award |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=egong034.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=5 January 2022 |date=4 January 2022}}</ref> the TV presenters [[Clare Balding]],<ref name=W424Nov2014/><!--

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--> [[Sarah Greene]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> [[Gavin Campbell (presenter)|Gavin Campbell]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> [[Mary Nightingale]],<ref name="W4 2016"/> and [[Tim Lovejoy]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chiswick's Local Web site |url=https://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb298.htm |access-date=20 December 2025 |website=www.chiswickw4.com |archive-date=17 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517222032/http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb298.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> and the celebrity duo [[Ant & Dec|Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bhandari |first=Serena |title=Ant McPartlin 'feeling great' post-rehab |url=http://chiswickherald.co.uk/ant-mcpartlin-feeling-great-postrehab-p7453-95.htm |access-date=9 May 2018 |work=The Chiswick Herald |date=13 November 2017}}</ref>

== Demography and housing ==

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ '''2011 Census Homes'''
|-
!Ward !!Detached  !!Semi-detached!!Terraced!!Flats and apartments!!Caravans etc.!!Shared{{refn|http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk Key Statistics; Quick Statistics: Population Density {{London ward populations|reference}} ''[[Office for National Statistics]]''|name=ons}}
|-
|Chiswick Homefields||149||916||1218||2493||12||69
|-
|Chiswick Riverside||243||947||1136||2753||3||25
|-
|Turnham Green||179||675||1247||2423||2
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1"
|+ '''2011 Census Households'''
|-
!Ward !!Population !!Households !!% Owned outright !!% Owned w. loan!!hectares<ref name=ons/>
|-
|Chiswick Homefields||11346||4857||25.8||28.1||203
|-
|Chiswick Riverside ||11543||5107||24.8||31  ||192
|-
|Turnham Green      ||11448||5443||25.9||23.5||177|-
|}

== In the arts ==

{{further|Chiswick Mall#In culture}}

The 1847/8 novel ''[[Vanity Fair (novel)|Vanity Fair]]'' by [[William Makepeace Thackeray]] opens at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Young Ladies in Chiswick Mall. [[Louis N. Parker]]'s 1910 play ''[[Pomander Walk (play)|Pomander Walk]]'' has the imagined setting of "a retired crescent of five very small, old-fashioned houses near Chiswick, on the river-bank. ... They are exactly alike: miniature copies of Queen Anne mansions".<ref>{{cite book |title=Pomander Walk |last=Parker |first=Louis N. |page=[https://archive.org/details/pomanderwalkcome00parkuoft/page/13 13] |url=https://archive.org/details/pomanderwalkcome00parkuoft |quote=retired crescent. |year=1915 |publisher=Samuel French}}</ref> [[Ford Madox Ford]]'s 1924/28 ''[[Parade's End]]'' tetralogy contains many scenes set in Chiswick, where the Wannop family resides. The BBC adaptation of the literary work featured filming on Bedford Park's Woodstock Road.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woodstock Road Goes Back in Time a Hundred Years |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb299.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=10 September 2018}}</ref>

[[Basil Dearden]]'s 1961 [[suspense film]] ''[[Victim (1961 film)|Victim]]'', starring [[Dirk Bogarde]] as the barrister Melville Farr, was set in Chiswick, and many of its scenes were filmed on Chiswick Mall, where Farr lived.<ref>{{cite web |title=When Dirk Bogarde Filmed In Chiswick |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=victimfilm001.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=23 August 2017 |date=29 July 2017 |archive-date=23 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170823210016/http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=victimfilm001.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> On 20 May 1966 [[the Beatles]] filmed two of their earliest promotional films for the songs "[[Paperback Writer]]" and "Rain" in the grounds of Chiswick House.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 May 2016 |title=50 years since The Beatles filmed two groundbreaking music videos |url=https://chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/2016/05/20/50-years-since-beatles-filmed-two-groundbreaking-music-videos-chiswick-house-gardens/ |access-date=10 May 2022 |website=Chiswick House & Gardens |archive-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220531170629/https://chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/2016/05/20/50-years-since-beatles-filmed-two-groundbreaking-music-videos-chiswick-house-gardens/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 1991 official video of the [[Paul Young]] and [[Zucchero]] duet, ''[[Senza una donna]]'' was filmed in a church hall in Chiswick.<ref>{{cite news |title=Music |newspaper=[[Liverpool Echo]] |date=7 December 1991 |page=21}}</ref> The BBC sitcom ''[[My Family]]'' was set in Chiswick; it ran from 2000 to 2011.<ref name="W4 My Family">{{cite web |title=The End of My Family: BBC says goodbye to Chiswick's middle class Harpers after an 11 year run |url=http://www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?section=info&page=conceleb268.htm |publisher=Chiswick W4 |access-date=1 August 2021 |date=28 March 2011}}</ref>
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== Nearest places ==

{{Geographic Location|title = '''Adjoining districts'''|Northwest = [[Ealing]]|North     = [[Acton, London|Acton]]|Northeast = [[Shepherd's Bush]]|West      = [[Brentford]]|Centre    = Chiswick|East      = [[Hammersmith]]|Southwest = [[Kew]]|South     = [[Mortlake]]|Southeast = [[Barnes, London|Barnes]]}}

== See also ==

* [[List of schools in the London Borough of Hounslow]]

== Notes ==

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== References ==

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== Sources ==

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* {{cite book |last=Baker |first=T. F. T. |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=22559 |title=A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden |chapter=Chiswick: Growth |publisher=British History Online |year=1982 |display-authors=etal}}
* {{cite book |last=Clegg |first=Gillian |title=Chiswick Past |publisher=Historical Publications |year=1995 |isbn=0-94866-733-8 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Cherry |first1=Bridget |author1-link=Bridget Cherry |last2=Pevsner |first2=Nikolaus |author2-link=Nikolaus Pevsner |title=[[The Buildings of England]]. London 3: North West |publisher=Penguin Books |publication-place=London |year=1991 |isbn=978-0-14-071048-9 |oclc=24722942 }}

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