Gunnersbury, Middlesex
Historical Description
Gunnersbury, a hamlet in Ealing parish, Middlesex, united with Turnham Green in the parish of Chiswick, to form an ecclesiastical parish in 1845. The L. & S.W.R. have two stations here, and the North London line forms here a junction with the L. & S.W.R. There is also a station on the Ealing District line called the Chiswick Park and Acton Green station. Gunnersbury Park belonged to Gunyld, the niece of Canute; was held by Alice Pierce, the favourite of Edward III., passed to the Foswicks, afterwards to Serjeant Maynard, who built the mansion on it in 1663, was inhabited by the Princess Amelia, aunt of George III., and is now a seat of Lord Rothschild. The mansion is a large rectangular structure in the Italian style, standing in the midst of beautiful grounds of about 100 acres in extent. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; gross yearly value, £380. Patron, the Bishop of London. The church, erected in 1843-44, in part from designs by the late Sir G. Gilbert Scott, R.A., is a building of cut flint consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transepts, north porch, and a western tower with spire. The ecclesiastical parish of St James, formed in 1888 from the parishes of Ealing, Chiswick, and Acton, comprises the area lying between Rew Bridge and Gunnersbury stations on the North London and L. & S.W. railways. Population, 1922. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; gross yearly value, £330, in the gift of the Vicar of St George, Old Brentford.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.
Maps
Online maps of Gunnersbury are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)