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. By the 19th century the road through the village of Turnham Green had grand houses beside it. The road developed into a shopping centre when Chiswick became built up with new streets and housing to the north of Old Chiswick, late in the 19th century. There are several listed buildings including public houses, churches, and a former power station, built to supply electricity to the tram network.
Shops on Chiswick High Road facing Turnham Green
Sale of Linden House, 1831, by the notorious Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Turnham Green north side with smithy and Crown and Anchor pub (before it was rebuilt), 1863
Chiswick High Road (to the junction with Goldhawk Road) and King Street, Hammersmith, late 19th century. The buildings on the left have survived.
Chiswick is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow, West London, England. 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. In a meander of the River Thames used for competitive and recreational rowing, with several rowing clubs on the river bank, the finishing post for the Boat Race is just downstream of Chiswick Bridge.
St Nicholas Church
Old Chiswick: the fifteenth-century Old Burlington, one of two former pubs on Church Street, Chiswick. The tower of the former Lamb Brewery is behind it on the left.
Postcard photo of Chiswick High Road and King Street, Hammersmith, c. 1900
Chiswick Town Hall, designed by A. Ramsden, 1901