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Chiswick Park may refer to: Chiswick Business Park; Chiswick House§Gardens; Chiswick Park Footbridge; Chiswick Park tube station This page was last edited on ...
The land on which the Chiswick Business Park was built had been owned by the Rothschild family and planted as orchards in the 19th century. [1] In 1921, the London General Omnibus Company opened a 33-acre bus maintenance facility on a site bounded by Chiswick High Road to the south, the North London line to the east and the Piccadilly line to the north. [2]
Chiswick (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ z ɪ k / ⓘ CHIZ-ik) [3] is a district in West London, split between the London Boroughs of Hounslow and 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.
Chiswick Park station is closer to Turnham Green (on the south side of Chiswick High Road) than the station of that name. The station is located on the site of the Battle of Turnham Green (1642), during the First English Civil War. The Royalist lines, facing London, extended southward from the station to where the Great West Road now runs. [7]
Chiswick Park Footbridge is a pedestrian bridge north of Gunnersbury Triangle Nature Reserve in Chiswick, London that connects Chiswick Business Park with Chiswick ...
Chiswick Park Cricket Ground was a cricket ground in Chiswick, London (historically Middlesex). The first recorded match on the ground was in 1886, when Chiswick Park played the Parsees during their tour of England. [1] The first first-class match held on the ground came in 1886 when CI Thornton's XI played the touring Australians.
The original Chiswick House was a Jacobean house owned by Sir Edward Wardour, and possibly built by his father. [3] It is dated c. 1610 in a late 17th-century engraving of the Chiswick House estate by Jan Kip and Leonard Knyff, [4] and was constructed with four sides around an open courtyard. [4]
In August 1921, London General Omnibus Company established a bus overhaul facility off Chiswick High Road. [3] It incorporated a Training School with a bus skidpan. [4] In 1989, London Transport closed the works. [5] [6] In 2001 the site was redeveloped as the Chiswick Business Park with 12 medium density office buildings.