The volume completes the coverage of the administrative county of
Middlesex as it existed until 1965, with histories of the parishes
of Acton, Chiswick, Ealing, West Twyford, and Willesden, together
forming the outer part of the Kensington division of Ossulstone
hundred. The article on Ealing covers Old Brentford, in Ealing
parish, and New Brent-ford, a chapelry which formed the southern
part of Hartwell parish, in Elthorne hundred. Before their
inclusion in Greater London the parishes embraced the municipal
boroughs of Acton, Brentford and Chiswick, and Willes-den, and part
of the borough of Ealing, with a total population of some 250,000.
The area lies between the river Brent and the Thames, stretching
from Edgware Road in the north-east to Brentford High Street. Many
estates belonged to the bishop of Lon-don or to prebendaries of St.
Paul's cathedral. Brentford, owing its prosperity to the Thames, to
roadside inns, and to the market gardens of its hinterland, was the
largest centre by the 17th century, when good access to the royal
palaces and to London drew prominent resi-dents to Chiswick and
Ealing. Most of the land was built over in the late 19th and early
20th centuries, when Ealing claimed to be the queen of upper-middle
class suburbs. Mean-while the decline of Brentford was followed by
the growth of industry in much of Acton and W illesden. The modern
scene is mainly one of sub-urban housing, intersected by railways
and busy roads, including the M4 motorway. Contrasts nonetheless
abound, with factories at Park Royal and along the Great West Road,
shops and offices in Ealing Broadway and Chiswick High Road,
tower-blocks and decayed terraces at Kilburn, the early garden
suburb of Bedford Park, the riverside 'villages' of Old Chiswick
and Strand-on-the-Green, and the landscaped grounds of Gunnersbury
Park and Chiswick House.
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