HANWORTH, a parish in the hundred of SPELTHORNE,
county of MIDDLESEX, 3 miles (S. W. by S.)
from Hounslow, containing 552 inhabitants. The living
is a rectory in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of
London, concurrently with the Bishop, rated in the
king's books at £11. 13.4. John Bastard, Esq., was
patron in 1819. The church is dedicated to St.
George. The manor-house was the occasional residence
of Henry VIII.,1 and of Elizabeth, before she ascended
the throne. Thomas Killegrew,- a wit, dramatist, and
courtier in the reign of Charles II., is said to have been
a native of this place.