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Brantford (2021 population: 104,688) is a city in Ontario, Canada, founded on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. It is surrounded by Brant County, but is politically separate with a municipal government of its own that is fully independent of the county's municipal government.
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27 de feb. de 2024 · Brantford, city, seat (1852) of Brant county, southeastern Ontario, Canada, on the Grand River. It originated as Brant’s Ford, named for Joseph Brant, the famous Mohawk chief who was granted the site in 1784 for the settlement of the Six Nations (Iroquois Confederacy) after the American Revolution.
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Toponymy
The name is recorded as Breguntford in 705 in an Anglo-Saxon charter and means 'ford over the River Brent'.: 10 The name of the river derives from *brigant-, a Brythonic word, meaning "high" or "elevated" (possibly in a holy sense). The river may also have been associated with the goddess Brigantia. The suffix '-ford' is Old English. The ford was most likely located where the main road crossed the river. New Brentford is recorded as Newe Braynford in 1521 and was previously known as Westbrayn...
Early Brentford
The settlement pre-dates the Roman occupation of Britain, and thus pre-dates the founding of nearby London. Many pre-Roman artefacts have been excavated in and around the area in Brentford known as 'Old England'. Bronze Age pottery and burnt flints have been found at separate sites in Brentford. The quality and quantity of the artefacts suggests that Brentford was a meeting point for pre-Romanic tribes. One well known Iron Age piece from about 100 BC – AD 50 is the Brentford horn-cap – a cere...
First English Civil War
In November 1642 a Royalist army advancing on London overcame a much smaller Parliamentarian force in battle at Brentford. The town was ransacked in the immediate aftermath of the engagement.
Brentford developed around the ancient boundary between the parishes of Ealing and Hanwell. It was divided between the chapelry of Old Brentford to the east in Ealing and the chapelry of New Brentford in Hanwell to the west. Of the two areas, Old Brentford was significantly larger. New Brentford was first described as the county town of Middlesex i...
In Brentford, those who ethnically identify as BAME(Black, Asian and minority Ethnic) was 33.9% in the Brentford ward and 34.2% in the Syon ward at the 2011 UK census. The median age of the population was 32 years in Brentford ward and 34 years in Syon ward. Both wards have about equal proportions of household types, with flats/maisonettes/apartmen...
The Syon estate
Syon House, the Greater London residence of the Duke of Northumberland, is a large mansion and park in Syon ward, described above, that has long been shared with Isleworth. Some of its seasonally marshy land is now a public nature reserve. The estate has a hotel (Hilton London Syon Park), visitor centre and garden centre. Syon Abbey, demolished and replaced (with reworked gatehouses) by the newer mansion, had the largest abbey church in England in the Middle Ages. The location of Syon Abbey i...
Brentford Monument
In 1909 a monument was made out of two stone pillars that used to support lamps on the old Brentford bridge over the Grand Union Canal. The monument originally stood at the end of Ferry Lane; after being covered in coal unloaded from boats, it was moved further up the lane in 1955. In 1992 it was moved again to its present site at the junction of Brentford High Street and Alexandra Road, outside the County Court. The monument commemorates four major events in Brentford's history: the supposed...
Saint Paul's Church
Built in 1868 from Kentish ragstone, Saint Paul's Church is one of Brentford's two current Anglican parish churches, and a distinct landmark. Its spire is clearly visible. The architect was H. Francis and James Montgomrey was a principal subscriber and chairman of the building committee.In 1959 and 1961 the parishes of the nearby churches of Saint George and Saint Lawrence were amalgamated with Saint Paul. Inside the church is a painting by local artist Johann Zoffany called Christ's Last Sup...
Griffin Park is the former home of Brentford F.C. and Chelsea Football Club Reserves, plus (from 2002 until 23 September 2005 it was the home of the London Broncos rugby league club – subsequently they were renamed Harlequins RL and transferred to The Stoop). Brentford F.C. are a professional English football club based in Brentford. They currently...
Nearest London Underground stations: 1. Northfields 2. Boston Manor 3. South Ealing 4. Gunnersbury Nearest railway stations: 1. Brentford railway station 2. Kew Bridge railway station 3. Syon Lane railway station
The phrase 'like two kings of Brentford' refers to former enemies who are now good friends. It appears in: 1. the play The Rehearsal (1672), by George Villiers, 2. the poem The Sofa by William Cowper 3. the novel Tom Cringle's Log, by Michael Scott.
Brentford's industrial status and the Great West Road are notable facets of Aldous Huxley's 1932 novel Brave New World. Set in London in AD 2540 (632 A.F.—"After Ford"), the influential dystopia anticipates changes in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioningthat combine to change society profou...
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Brantford is a former industrial city of 105,000 people (2021) on the Grand River in Southwestern Ontario. "The Telephone City", it is where Alexander Graham Bell said he invented his telephone, and from where he placed the first long-distance call to nearby Paris (Ontario) .
Brantford es una ciudad situada en el Grand River, al sur de Ontario, Canadá. Este municipio de un solo nivel es un enclave dentro del condado de Brant y que forma parte de la misma división del censo, pero Brantford es un municipio distinta de ella. La ciudad tenía una población de 90.192 habitantes en el Censo 2006 de Canadá.
