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About Us

  • • Chiswick Heritage Working Party
  • • Partners and Sponsors
  • • Our Projects

About Chiswick

  • • Open Chiswick Map
  • • A Brief History
  • • Places to Visit
  • • Listed Buildings and Plaques
  • • Public Houses
  • • Further Reading

Latest Galleries

  • • Photo Competition 2010
  • • Chiswick House Friends Dog Show, 2008
  • • Great River Swim, 2008
  • • Archive by Date

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A Brief History

Gillian Clegg, one of Chiswick’s leading historians and author of The Chiswick Book, Past and Present, has written a brief summary of the history of Chiswick for the Open Chiswick website. Please use the links below to learn more about the development of Chiswick through time.

  • • Early Days
  • • Medieval (12th - 15th centuries)
  • • Tudor - Restoration (16th and 17th centuries)
  • • Georgian Times (18th century)
  • • Victorian Times (19th century)
  • • The 20th Century

Chiswick History Podcast

We also have a podcast by Gillian Clegg outlining the history of Chiswick, available at http://openchiswick.squarespace.com/storage/podcast/podcast.xml

To subscribe drag or copy and paste the URL into your podcast playlist (such as i-tunes), or choosing “Subscribe to Podcast” from the Advanced menu and type in the URL. If you have any difficulties or to trouble shoot check the apple help manual

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