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Chiswick in Middlesex County England History and GeographyCHISWICK, a parish in the Kensington division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, 7½ miles (W. by S.) from St. Paul's Cathedral, London, containing 4236 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, rated in the king's books at £9. 18. 4. The church is dedicated to St. Nicholas: in the church-yard are some ancient tombs, and a monument to the memory of Hogarth, the painter. Here are charity schools, founded in the year 1719, by Lady Capel, and endowed with £39 per annum, for teaching and clothing twenty boys and ten girls. Chiswick is pleasantly situated on the margin of the Thames, to the left of the great western road from London, and has many elegant seats belonging to the nobility and gentry, the principal of which, Devonshire House, is adorned on each side with fine rows of cedars: in this mansion died the Right Hon. Charles James Fox, in 1806, and the Right Hon. George Canning, in 1827. Here are the extensive gardens belonging to the Horticultural Society of London, incorporated by charter in 1808, for the improvement of horticulture in all its branches, the concerns of which are under the superintendence of a council, president, treasurer, and secretary: the general meetings of the Fellows take place on the first and third Tuesdays in every month, at the house belonging to the Society in Regent-street, London: a selection from the papers read to the Society is occasionally published. The Society has formed a collection of drawings of the most approved fruits and ornamental plants, together with models of fruit in wax; and the members have free access to a library of horticultural works: the terms are six guineas on admission, and four guineas per annum. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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