HOUNSLOW
, a See also:town in the See also:Brentford See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Middlesex, See also:England, 122 m
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W. by S. of St See also:Paul's See also:Cathedral, See also:London, on the See also:District and London & See also:South Western See also:railways
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Pop
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(1901) 11,377
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It has grown into an extensive residential suourb of London
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Its situation at the junction of two See also:great roads from the See also:west of England made it an important coaching station, and some 500 coaches formerly passed through it daily, A priory of friars of the See also:Holy Trinity was founded at Hounslow in 1296, and existed till the See also:dissolution of the monasteries
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The priory See also:chapel was used as a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church till 1830, after which its See also:place was taken by the existing church of the Holy Trinity (1835)
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Hounslow See also:Heath, west of the town, had, according to the survey of 1546, an See also:area of 4293 acres
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It was the site of See also:Roman and See also:British camps, and in the See also:wars of the 17th See also:century was the See also:scene of several important military See also:rendezvous
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It was a favourite resort of highwaymen, whose bodies were exposed on gibbets along the road
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In 1784 the See also:base-See also:line of the first trigonometrical survey in England was laid down on the heath
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In 1793 large See also:cavalry See also:barracks were erected upon it, and it is also the site of extensive See also:powder See also:mills
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It began to be enclosed towards the end of the reign of See also:George III
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In Osterley See also:Park, N.E. of Hounslow, See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Gresham built a See also:mansion in 1577, and this was rebuilt with great magnificence by See also:Francis and See also:Robert See also:Child c
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1770
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Hounslow is divided between the parishes of Heston and Isleworth
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Pop. of See also:urban district of Heston and Isleworth (19o1) 30,863
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