| Gunnersbury | |
|---|---|
 The Gunnersburypublic house | |
  Gunnersbury Location withinGreater London | |
| OS grid reference | TQ195785 |
| London borough | |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | LONDON |
| Postcode district | W3, W4, W5 |
| Post town | BRENTFORD |
| Postcode district | TW8 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| UK Parliament | |
| London Assembly | |
| 51°29′34″N0°16′40″W / 51.4927°N 0.2777°W /51.4927; -0.2777 | |
Gunnersbury is an area ofWest London, England.
The name "Gunnersbury" originally meant "Gunner's (Gunnar's) fort", and is a combination of an old Scandinavian personal name +Middle English -bury, meaning, "fort", or "fortified place".[1]
Gunnersbury is part of theHammersmith and Chiswick constituency for elections to theHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom.
Gunnersbury is part of theChiswick Gunnersbury ward for elections toHounslow London Borough Council.[2]
Gunnersbury consists mainly of pre-war housing of a variety of types, including flats, terrace, semi detached, anddetached houses, some of which are ex-local authority built.
The defining symbol of Gunnersbury is the 18-storey high BSI (British Standards Institution) building onChiswick High Road. Between 1966 and 1992 the block housed a divisional headquarters ofIBM UK. Below this buildingGunnersbury station serves theRichmond branch of theDistrict line and theLondon Overground'sMildmay line toStratford.
On the north side of the High Road is The Gunnersbury, formerly the John Bull pub, built in 1853, with a billiards saloon built a little later. It became a music venue, visited by bands includingThe Who.[3]
In August 1921,London General Omnibus Company established a bus overhaul facility off Chiswick High Road.[4] It incorporated a Training School with a busskidpan.[5] In 1989,London Transport closed the works.[6][7] In 2001 the site was redeveloped as the Chiswick Business Park with 12 medium density office buildings.[8][9] It houses companies includingSBS Broadcasting Networks,CBS News,Technicolor,Discovery Channel Europe,Intelsat,Singapore Airlines,Qantas,Foxtons, and aVirgin Active health club.
Immediately to the east isGunnersbury Triangle nature reserve. An area of woodland, it supports many species of birds, plants, and animals. It has free admission and its entrance is on the south ofBollo Lane, a few yards fromChiswick Park tube station.[10][11]
Just to the north of Gunnersbury Triangle, theChiswick Park Footbridge connects Gunnersbury'sChiswick Business Park with Chiswick Park tube station. It was designed byExpedition Engineering and Useful Studios.[12][13]
Gunnersbury lends its name to a nearby secondary school, formerly agrammar school, inBrentford.Gunnersbury Catholic School is a boys-onlyCatholic comprehensive with a co-educational sixth form. It used to be located on Gunnersbury Avenue and it backed on toGunnersbury Park. Since 1984, it has been located in The Ride, Brentford.
In 1886, Gunnersbury was given its ownparish church, dedicated to Saint James. The church stood onChiswick High Road, near Chiswick Roundabout. The church was decommissioned just over a century later, in 1987, and demolished soon afterwards. The parish was united with that of St Paul's, Brentford.[14]
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