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Shops on Chiswick High Road facing Turnham Green. Chiswick High Road is the principal shopping and dining street of Chiswick, a district in the west of London.It was part of the main Roman road running west out of London, and remained the main road until the 1950s when the A4 was built across Chiswick.
Bus routes on or near Chiswick High Road are the 94, 110, 237, 267, 272, 440, E3 and H91. [89] The 94 is a 24-hour service, and the High Road is also served at night by the N9. [90] [91] The District line serves Chiswick with four London Underground stations, Stamford Brook, Turnham Green, Chiswick Park and Gunnersbury. [92]
The Friends of Turnham Green cited the overshadowing of the pub in their successful objection to the development of the whole of the adjacent part of Chiswick High Road and area behind it in 2015. [4] In 2024, the pub was extensively refurbished, reopening on 4 April. [5]
Chiswick from the river, in Walter Harrison's History of London, c. 1775 Old Chiswick is the area of the original village beside the river Thames for which the modern district of Chiswick is named. The village grew up around St Nicholas Church , founded c. 1181 and named for the patron saint of fishermen.
The fire station on the south side of Chiswick High Road was purpose-built in 1891, [1] when it received a new steam engine. In 1911, it was equipped with a motor fire escape and ambulance, allowing it to claim it was one of the best in London.
The Power House, Chiswick is a former electricity generating station on Chiswick High Road and a Grade II listed building, completed in 1901. It provided power for the London United Electrical Tramway Company until 1917.
The Chiswick Empire was a theatre facing Turnham Green in Chiswick that opened in 1912 and closed and was demolished in 1959. A venue for touring artists, some of the greatest names in drama, variety and music hall performed there including George Formby , Laurel and Hardy , Chico Marx , Peter Sellers and Liberace .
Chiswick grew as a village in Anglo-Saxon times from smaller settlements dating back to Mesolithic times in the prehistoric era. [1] Roman roads running east–west along the lines of the modern Chiswick High Road and Wellesley Road met some 500 metres north of Chiswick Mall; the High Road was for centuries the main road westwards from London, while goods were carried along the river Thames.