Whitton, Middlesex
Historical Description
Whitton, an ecclesiastical district, with a village, in Twickenham parish, Middlesex, on the loop-line of the L. & S.W.R., 1 mile SSW of Hounslow. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office (T.S.O.) under Hounslow, and a railway station jointly with Hounslow. Population, 937. Whitton Park House was built by the third Duke of Argyll, and became the residence of Sir W. Chambers, the architect of Somerset House. Whitton Place was originally The greenhouse in Whitton Park grounds, and is now a villa belonging to the Gostlings. Kneller Hall was the seat of Sir G. Kneller, passed to the Calverts, and is now a military music college. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of London; gross value, £97 with residence. Patron, the Vicar of Twickenham. The church was built in 1862, and is a building of Kentish rag, brick, and freestone in the Early English style.
Land and Property
A full transcript of the Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Middlesex is online.
Maps
Online maps of Whitton 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)