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Chiswick is a district in the London Borough of Hounslow in West London. It is most famous as the home of the artist William Hogarth . This short article about the United Kingdom can be made longer.
Planta del piano nobile de Chiswick House, Londres, 1729. La casa/mansión Chiswick (en inglés: Chiswick House) es una villa palladiana en Burlington Lane, municipio de Hounslow en Londres, Reino Unido. La casa perteneció a Richard Boyle ( Lord Burlington ), cuyo buen gusto y conocimientos de arquitectura son frecuentemente reconocidos.
Chiswick est célèbre pour sa bière, brassée par le brasseur local Fuller's (nom officiel Fuller, Smith & Turner) depuis 1845 mais la bière a été fabriquée à Chiswick depuis le milieu du XVII e siècle. La bière de Fuller's la plus connue est la London Pride mais il en est d'autres, comme l'ESB (Englih Special Brew) et la Chiswick Bitter.
Old Chiswick is the area of the original village beside the river Thames for which the modern district of Chiswick is named. The village grew up around St Nicholas Church, founded c. 1181 and named for the patron saint of fishermen. The placename was first recorded c. 1000 as Ceswican ('Cheese farm').
History Early origins. Chiswick grew as a village in Anglo-Saxon times from smaller settlements dating back to Mesolithic times in the prehistoric era. Roman roads running east–west along the lines of the modern Chiswick High Road and Wellesley Road met some 500 metres north of Chiswick Mall; the High Road was for centuries the main road westwards from London, while goods were carried along ...
Chiswick liegt auf der Hälfte des Weges zwischen dem Zentrum Londons und dem Flughafen London-Heathrow. Das Stadtgebiet liegt auf einem Mäander der Themse. In seinem südlichen Teil finden sich zahlreiche Freiflächen, wie etwa die Gartenanlage von Chiswick House oder der Park Dukes Meadows.
Chiswick House Gardens. The Chiswick House Gardens form the grounds of Chiswick House, now in West London, England. Lord Burlington first arranged the gardens in the 1720s to match his ideas of the gardens of classical times and the Palladianism of the house. In the 1730s, William Kent created England's first landscape garden in part of the ...
