London Borough of Hounslow
London Borough of Hounslow | |
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status | London Borough |
region | Greater London |
Administrative headquarters | Hounslow |
surface | 55.98 km² |
Residents | 270,782 |
was standing | June 30, 2018 |
ONS code | 00AT |
Website | www.hounslow.gov.uk |
The London Borough of Hounslow [ ˈhaʊnzləʊ ] is a borough of London . It's in the west of the city. When the Greater London Administrative Region was founded in 1965, it emerged from the Municipal Borough of Brentford and Chiswick , the Feltham Urban District and the Municipal Borough of Heston and Isleworth in Middlesex .
The headquarters of GlaxoSmithKline and British Sky Broadcasting are located on the “Golden Mile” in the district .
population
The population in 2008 was composed of 61.7% white, 26.7% Asian, 5.0% black and 0.9% Chinese.
Districts
* - There are still no articles of their own for the respective districts, only forwarding here.
Sports
Brentford FC is based in Hounslow .
Hounslow is home to the following amateur football clubs:
- CB Hounslow United FC (Home Stadium: Osterley Sports Ground)
- Hanworth Villa FC (Home Ground: Rectory Meadow)
- Feltham FC (Home Stadium: Orchard in East Bedfont)
- Bedfont Sports FC (Home Stadium: Bedfont Sports Recreation Ground)
- Ashford Town FC (Middlesex) (Home: The Robert Parker Stadium)
The Staines Rugby Football Club is also located in Hanworth.
Town twinning
Hounslow has a partnership with the Leningrad District in Krasnodar Krai , Russia .
Personalities
- Charles Robert Ashbee (1863–1942), architect and poet
- Ritchie Blackmore (* 1945), rock guitarist ( Deep Purple , Rainbow )
- Jimmy Carr (born 1972), comedian and television presenter
- Sebastian Coe (* 1956), athlete and politician
- Phil Collins (* 1951), drummer, rock / pop singer ( Genesis )
- Colin Crouch (* 1944), political scientist and sociologist
- John Entwistle (1944–2002), bassist ( The Who )
- Colin Firth (born 1960), actor
- Ian Gillan (born 1945), rock singer (Deep Purple)
- Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), film director and screenwriter
- Charles Hawtrey (1914–1988), actor and comedian
- Patsy Kensit (born 1968), actress
- Dave Lambert (born 1949), rock musician
- Ian McLagan (1945-2014), rock musician
- Dave McMurdo (1944-2011), jazz trombonist
- Michael Mancienne (* 1988), football player
- MIA (* 1975), singer
- Ernest John Moeran (1894–1950), composer
- Jimmy Page (* 1944), rock guitarist ( Led Zeppelin )
- Jay Sean (born 1981), R&B singer
- Douglas James Shearman (1918–2003), geologist and sedimentologist
- Vince Taylor (1939-1991), singer
- Henry Inigo Triggs (1876–1923), architect and garden designer
- Alexander Trotman, Baron Trotman (1933-2005), manager
- Kim Wilde (* 1960), singer
additional
The film Bend It Like Beckham (2002) plays in Hounslow.
Web links
- Hounslow Borough Council (district administration)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mid 2018 Estimates of the population for the UK, England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
- ^ ONS mid-2007 Ethnic Group Population Estimates. (PDF, 89 KB) (No longer available online.) Greater London Authority, October 2009, archived from the original on July 19, 2011 ; accessed on May 23, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Robert Cumber: Council to revive links with Palestinian town . Hounslow, Heston & Whitton Chronicle. December 17, 2010. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ N , 0 ° 22 ′ W