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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 may refer to: Chiswick Business Park; Chiswick House§Gardens; Chiswick Park Footbridge; Chiswick Park tube station This page was last edited on 28 ...
Turnham Green (/ ˈ t ɜːr n əm ˈ ɡ r iː n /) is a London Underground station in Chiswick of the London Borough of Hounslow, west London.The station is served by the District and Piccadilly lines in a manner of cross-platform interchange although Piccadilly line trains normally stop at the station only at the beginning and end of the day, running through non-stop at other times. [7]
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 railway station is a railway station within the Grove Park residential area of Chiswick in the London Borough of Hounslow. The station is on the Hounslow Loop Line, and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. Journey time into London Waterloo is approximately 25 minutes and Clapham Junction 15 minutes.
Chiswick Park tube station on the District line, opened in 1879 as 'Acton Green' station, and renamed in 1887, is at the Western end of Acton Green common. [18] The London Buses route 94 to Piccadilly Circus terminates at the northwestern corner of Acton Green common. [19]
On the north of Chiswick High Road in Gunnersbury is the Chiswick Business Park, on the site of a former bus garage. It was designed in 1990–1991 by the architects Terry Farrell & Partners as a suitable backdrop for buildings by themselves, Foster Associates , and Peter Foggo around the main piazza, and others by Rogers Stirk Harbour ...
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.