TURNHAM-GREEN, a hamlet in the parish of
CHISWICK, Kensington division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE,
county of MIDDLESEX, 5 miles (W. by S.)
from London. The population is returned with the parish.'
The great western road passes through this village,
which contains many handsome houses, is lighted
with gas, and supplied with water from the West London
water-works. On the south side is the Horticultural
Society's garden (see Chiswick), but the principal
entrance is here. It is within the jurisdiction of a court
of requests held in Kingsgate-street, Holborn, for the
recovery of debts under 40s., and is under the superintendence
of the new police. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. A National school for
the parish of Chiswick is situated here; one hundred
and twenty-three boys are instructed, and twenty are
clothed.