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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]
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The District line serves Chiswick with four London Underground stations, Stamford Brook, Turnham Green, Chiswick Park and Gunnersbury. [92] Turnham Green is an interchange with the Piccadilly line, but only before 06:50 and after 22:30, when Piccadilly line trains stop at the station.
On the south side is the old Chiswick Town Hall. The green is the site of local community events, including a travelling funfair, church events and charity table-top sales. The nearest London Underground station is Chiswick Park on the District line. Turnham Green tube station is on Chiswick Common, the site in 1642 of The Battle of Turnham Green.
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]
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An area of woodland, it supports many species of birds, plants, and animals. It has free admission and its entrance is on the south of Bollo Lane, a few yards from Chiswick Park tube station. [9] [10] Just to the north of Gunnersbury Triangle, the Chiswick Park Footbridge connects Gunnersbury's Chiswick Business Park with