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.

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  • Parish registers: None
  • Bishop’s Transcripts: None

Nonconformists include: Roman Catholic

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