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Brentford occurs as suburban development set Viii miles (Dozen.Ix klick) west south-west of Charing Cross. These are a location of the headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline

Brief history
Brentford, when the title suggests, was rest on a ford point on the River Brent.

A town is known when as Bregentforda at a period of the Council of Brentford 781 and as 'Bregentforda' & 'Brentforda' in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle of 1016. A root 'Bregent-', naming a flow of any stream is thought to originate from either a title of the Celtic goddess 'Brigantia', tutelary goddess of the Brigantes tribe (who didn't sleep in Brentford).

A cash settlement pre-dates a Roman occupation of Britain, and so pre-dates a innovation of London itself. Several pre-Roman artifact use been excavated inside & inside a vicinity in Brentford called 'Old England'. Bronze Age pottery and burnt flints own been incurred around separate web sites around Brentford. a quality & quantity of a artifact suggests that Brentford was a meeting point for pre-Romanic tribes in which a share of tribal rituals involved the ceremonial casting of weapons into the flow of any stream.

It has been suggested that Brentford was too the independent ford point on the River Thames, and was a point in which Julius Caesar crossed the Thames when you took his invasion of Britain. It has been asserted, forswearing hard grounds to believe, that the documented battle fought at this period between Caesar's forces & Cassivellaunus took place at Brentford. There are, but, deuce more historically licensed battles of Brentford inside 1016 and 1642

Timeline
54 BC Brentford is the in all probability places of a battle recorded by Julius Caesar between Julius Caesar & local king, Cassivellaunus. 781 Council of Brentford recording settlement of the dispute between Offa, king of Mercia, and a Bishop of Worcester 1016 'Battle of Brentford' between the invasive Canute and Edmund Ironside 1431 Relocation of Syon Abbey to Brentford from Twickenham 1539 Destruction of Syon Abbey by King Henry VIII 1616 - 1617 Pocahontas, the Native Our contries 'Princess', sleep in Brentford 1642 'Battle of Brentford' during a English Civil War 1717 Brentford Turnpike Trust founded to maintain the road between Kensington and Hounslow 1805 Start of operations of the Grand Junction Canal (later a Grand Union Canal) 1815 - 1817 John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the USA, sleep in Brentford 1849 Start of operations of the Hounslow Loop line, providing service to Kew Bridge, Brentford Central and Syon Lane stations in the Brentford locality. 1859 Start of operations of the Great American & Brentford Railway company linking Brentford Dock to the Great Western Railway main line at Southall. Extra rider station known as 'Brentford Town' afterwards constructed good northward of Brentford High Street. 1884 Start of operations of Boston Manor Underground station (then called Boston Road). 1889 Brentford Football Club founded by the rowing club looking a wintertime sport. 1925 30th May - Dandy West Road officially opened by King George V. Late a Brentford division became called a Golden Mile due to the large total of manufactory that relocated there to require benefit of the practiced communications. A manufactory provided high employment & stimulation to the local economy. 1929 1st January - Grand Junction Canal bought by the Regent's Canal and amalgamated with other canals to form the Grand Union Canal. 1965 Opening of elevated section of M4 motorway

A highway south West of Britain passed across Brentford for several centuries, & potentially at present, a M4 motorway passes approximately Unity mile (Unity.Sestet kilometer) n of the original highway across Brentford.

Places of interest
Syon House, the London residence of the Duke of Northumberland.

Syon Abbey, now rased to a ground, was the big abbey church inside England.

Syon Home is built upon a portion of the places of Syon Abbey. A accurate location of Syon Abbey was unknown until archaeologic investigations inside the evidence of Syon Home (Syon Park) in 2003 (by Time Team) and 2004 revealed a foundations of the abbey church. It was big than Westminster Abbey is now, however there are no above-ground structure remains. For additional details on a abbey & the reasons for its destruction, watch its have entry - Syon Abbey

A London Butterfly Home inside Syon Park until August 2006 is like the big bird sanctuary containing butterflies. Visitant might underst& butterflies & moths flying astir, feeding, and emerging from either Chrysalises. There exists likewise the colony of big pismire (saved by having the butterflies), the little tropical bird volary, & a little gallery of reptilian, insects & spiders.

Boston Manor Home, built inside 1622, occurs as Jacobean manor house, noted for its ticket plaster ceilings.

Gunnersbury Park Museum is the local museum for the Boroughs of Ealing & Hounslow & placed around Gunnersbury House. It contains numbers of archeologic finds including hundreds of flints, + Roman and Viking weapons found inside Brentford. It too has displays of constumes & ever-changing displays in more cases of local interest. A home was once occupied per Rothschild family and although it did non leave any contemporary piece of furniture or even fittings, a bit of of the ornamental schemes own been swell preserved.

A Wier, saloon, at one time 'A White Horse' was in which a artist J. M. W. Turner lived for one year at the age of ten. He is regarded when getting began his interest within painting when residing there.

Syon Park Home (demolished within 1953), does'nt to exist as confused by owning Syon Home, housed a 'Syon Park Academy' in which a poet Shelley was educated between the ages of 10 & 12 prior to moving in to Eton. The Royal Mail depot stands on the places nowadays. This can likewise become a places of the habitation in which Pocahontas lived in Brentford Prevent between 1616 and 1617.

Brentford Dock, a freight terminus of the Outstanding American Railway, built at the confluence of the River Thames and River Brent, designed by Brunel, and built between 1855 and 1859. a spur line from either the GWR at Southall was constructed to the dock to facilitate easily transportation of freight from either lighters and barges on the Thames to GWR served destinations in the west of the United Kingdom. A dock wwhen redeveloped as residential accommodation in the early Seventies, & little industrial archaeology remains.

Brentford Dock wwhen built alongside last significant transfer infrastructure as Brentford is the terminus of the Grand Union Canal, originally the Grand Junction Canal. This waterway is however within utilize for leisure traffic.

Brentford Public Library occurs as Carnegie library.

Brentford Public Baths (1896) come the Grade II enrolled case latterly Victorian architecture.

Kew Bridge Steam Museum houses the world's big working beam engine.

A Musical comedy Museum houses the big collection of mechanical instrument, like player pianos.

Griffin Park is home to Brentford Football Club and from 2002 until 23 September 2005 it was a front yard of the London Broncos rugby league club who use later been renamed Harlequins Rugby League and will play at The Stoop.

Companies Headquartered in Brentford
Datapoint http://www.datapoint.co.uk website

GlaxoSmithKline http://www.glaxosmithkline.co.uk website

Heidelberg Graphic Devices Ltd. http://www.uk.heidelberg.com website (subsidiary of Heidelberger Druckmaschinen http://www.heidelberg.com website)

Nearest places
Kew Gunnersbury Chiswick Isleworth

Nearest tube stations
Northfields tube station Boston Manor tube station South Ealing tube station Gunnersbury tube station

Nearest railway stations
Brentford railway station Kew Bridge railway station Syon Lane railway station

Sources
The Archive Photographs Series, Brentford; Tempus Publishing Ltd., 1998, ISBN 0752406272 Brentford when it was; Hendon Publishing Co. Ltd., 2nd impression Might 1993, ISBN 0860670821 Brentford Past; Historical Publications Ltd., ISBN 0948667796 Old Ordnance Survey Maps, Brentford 1894, A Godfrey Edition; Alan Godfrey Maps, ISBN 0850545099