Editing Chiswick (section)

== 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.]]
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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}}</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]'', 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]'', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden, (1982). Retrieved 1 February 2008.</ref>