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Isleworth history

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Roman and Anglo Saxon

Excavations have unearthed evidence of a Romano-British settlement . ‘Gislheresuuyrth’, meaning in Old English Enclosure belonging to [a man called] Gīslhere, is first referred to as a permanent settlement in an Anglo-Saxon charter in 695 . The Domesday Book says that during the reign (1042–1066) of Edward the Confessor the manor belonged to Earl Algar .

Granted to St Valeri Barons

Isleworth was a well-cultivated farming and trading settlement, more valuable than many of its neighbours . The Domesday Book records its 55 ploughlands, 118 households and amount rendered, £72 per year, to its feudal system overlords .

Transfer to Earldom of Cornwall

In 1227, Henry III seized Isleworth and other property of the St Valeri family and gave the manor to his brother, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall . He built a new moated manor house which is described in the Black Book of the Exchequer . Beyond the moat was an outer courtyard with a number of buildings for servants and supplies, and a short distance away was a watermill . The exact location of this house is not recorded, but a report of an area long ago known as ‘Moated Place’ puts the likely place between the Northumberland Arms and Twickenham Road .

Advowson, right to appoint the vicar

Abbey of St Valeri in Picardy held the livings (benefices) and revenues of several English parish church lands . In 1391 it transferred those of Isleworth (for a fee) to William of Wykeham, who endowed them to Winchester College . This lasted for 150 years, then in 1543 King Henry VIII exchanged with Winchester certain manors elsewhere for five churches in Middlesex . Four years later he gave the Isleworth rectory and advowson to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, but they returned to the crown when the Duke was executed in 1552 .

Transfer of Manor to Syon Monastery

In 1415 Henry V granted nuns from the Swedish Bridgettine order land on the bank of the Thames, in Twickenham parish, where they built their first house Syon Monastery . In 1422 Henry V transferred ownership of Isleworth Manor from the Duchy of Cornwall to Syon Monastery in 1422 .

Granted to Duke of Somerset

Henry VIII demolished most of Syon Monastery after 1539 and the site and manor was granted to Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset . Lady Jane Grey was taken from here to the Tower by Royal barge in anticipation of her being crowned Queen of England .

Acquired by Earl of Northumberland

Queen Elizabeth I granted a lease of the manor of Syon to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland in 1594 . The Royalist army occupied the house during the Battle of Brentford in November 1642 . Syon Park was rebuilt and landscaped by the Adam brothers and “Capability” Brown between 1766 and 1773 .

Georgian and Victorian times

Much of Isleworth became orchards in the 18th century (including part of Hugh Ronalds’ renowned nursery), and then market gardens in the 19th century, supplying the London markets . Lower Square and Church Street still have buildings dating from 18th and early 19th centuries . A striking element of this period was the establishment in Isleworth of many mansions and large houses for aristocrats and high achievers .

20th century

First half of 20th century for Isleworth generally characterised by a very substantial amount of artisan and white-collar residential development throughout the town . This period also included the building of several new factories and offices, mostly towards the north-east, up to the town’s eastern boundary with New Brentford .

  

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