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Facts and places of interest in Brentford

Interesting Facts about Brentford

• Brentford is considered to be the site of a battle between Julius Cesar and Cassivellaunus (a local king) in 54BC.

• Pocahontas, the native American Indian, lived in Brentford.

• The Battle of Brentford took place in 1642 during the English Civil War

• In 1805 the Grand Junction Canal was started (this became the Grand Union Canal)

• Brentford Football Club was founded in 1889.

• Brentford drew attention to itself in 2006 when Google Trends showed Brentford to have carried out the most searches for terms connected to pornography and sexual fetishes. This could have been due to the ISP routing centre near Brentford though!

• Brentford High Street used to be the principal road to the South West for hundreds of years before the M4 and Great West Road were built.

Places of Interest in Brentford

Syon House  

Syon House is a 1547 mansion which was redesigned by Robert Adam in 1762. It is the residence of the Duke of Northumberland.

The house is built on some of the site of Syon Abbey which was once the largest abbey church in England and was razed to the ground. In 2003 The Time Team excavated the area and found the foundations of the abbey church, which was larger even than Westminster Abbey.

Boston Manor House  

Boston Manor House is a Jacobean house built in 1622. Of particular interest are the plasterwork ceilings.

Gunnersbury Park Museum

Gunnersbury House is a mansion which was bought for the nation from the Rothschild family. There is a large area of park land which has many football pitches.

Gunnersbury House is now a museum for local history and archaeology, costume and fine art. There are many archaeological items on display such as flints and the Roman and Viking weapons found in Brentford.

The Weir  

The Weir pub is where the artist Turner lived for a year when he was a boy of ten.

Brentford Dock  

Brentford Dock was built at the merging of the River Brent and the River Thames. It was designed by the famous Isambard Kingdom Brunel and was erected 1855 -1859.

During the 1970s the dock was redeveloped into residential accommodation; some of the cobblestone road bed remains and some of the broad-gauge bridge section rail.

The Grand Union Canal is still used today.

Brentford Public Library

Brentford Public Library is one of the Carnegie libraries, erected with money given by the Scottish American business man Andrew Carneigie, known as the ‘Patron Saint of Libraries'. In total over 2,500 were erected in total which included 660 in Great Britain and Ireland .

Kew Bridge Steam Museum

Kew Bridge Steam Museum features beam engines that pumped west London 's water until 1944. Here you will see the world's largest working beam engine and machinery can be seen ‘in steam' most weekends.

If you are interested in buying a residential property or taking a lease on a commercial property in Brentford then we would be pleased to offer you our professional services. As Chartered Surveyors we provide building Surveys, structural surveys, engineer's reports, homebuyers reports as well as schedule of conditions, commercial building surveys, feasibility studies etc all carried out by independent Chartered Surveyors. We would always recommend that you have a survey carried out on a property you intend to purchase.