Turnham Green Middlesex Family History Guide
Turnham Green is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Middlesex, created in 1845 from Chiswick St Nicholas Ancient Parish.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: None
- Bishop’s Transcripts: None
Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic
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Adjacent Parishes
Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
TURNHAM-GREEN, a chapelry, with a village, in Chiswick parish, Middlesex; 1 mile N by E of Chiswick r. station.
It was constituted in 1845; and it has a post-office under London W. Pop., 2,623. Houses, 517. There are numerous good residences; and ruins exist of Heathfield House, the seat of Lord Lovat, who was executed in 1746. Lord Essex encamped here in 1642; Waller, in 1643; and a skirmish was fought with Prince Rupert. Roman coins were found in 1731.
The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of London. Value, £300. Patron, the Bishop of L. The church was built in 1843, at a cost of £6,000. The Ladies’ Institution for female idiots is here.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
See Chiswick St Nicholas Middlesex Family History Guide
Administration
- County: Middlesex
- Civil Registration District: Brentford
- Probate Court: Court of the Peculiar of the Dean and Chapter of St Paul’s Cathedral
- Diocese: London
- Rural Deanery: Not created until 1858
- Poor Law Union: Brentford
- Hundred: Ossulstone (Kensington Division)
- Province: Canterbury