16 Facts About Chiswick

Old Chiswick was an 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.

Chiswick Roundabout is the start of the North Circular Road .

Chiswick was first recorded c 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.

Old Chiswick grew up as a village around St Nicholas Church from c 1181 on Church Street, its inhabitants practising farming, fishing and other riverside trades including a ferry, important as there were no bridges between London Bridge and Kingston throughout the Middle Ages.

Chiswick St Nicholas was an ancient, and later civil, parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex.

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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.

For elections to the London Assembly Chiswick is in the South West constituency, represented since 2000 by Tony Arbour, of the Conservative Party.

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.

Chiswick is in the W4 postcode district of the London post town, which in a tribute to its ancient parish includes Bedford Park and Acton Green, mostly within the London Borough of Ealing.

Chiswick Mall is a waterfront street on the north bank of the River Thames in the oldest part of Chiswick near St Nicholas Church.

Chiswick designed the focal buildings of the garden suburb, including the church of St Michael and All Angels and the Tabard Inn opposite it.

Chiswick is home to the Arts Educational Schools in Bath Road.

Chiswick is situated at the start of the North Circular Road, South Circular Road and the M4 motorway, the latter providing a direct connection to Heathrow Airport and the M25 motorway.

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.

Chiswick reach of the Thames is heavily used for competitive and recreational rowing.

Chiswick residents have included the singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor, the TV journalists Jeremy Vine, Rageh Omaar and Fergal Keane, the actors Phyllis Logan, Colin Firth, David Tennant, Georgia Tennant, and Vanessa Redgrave, the TV presenters Clare Balding, Sarah Greene, Gavin Campbell, and Mary Nightingale, the journalist Alice Arnold, and the celebrity duo Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.