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Strand-on-the-Green

A row of Georgian houses and three pubs along a towpath that the spring tides still flood, under Kew railway bridge.

Village streets

It was Stronde, a fishing village, in 1353, and by the eighteenth century a working riverside of maltsters, brick-makers, coal wharves, boat-builders and the up-river depot of the water bailiff, with the gentry's landing stages in between; the opening of Kew Bridge and the royal family's presence at Kew made it fashionable, the Grand Junction Canal took the trade away, and the twentieth century left it a place to live. The path runs along the north bank from Kew Bridge under the railway bridge of 1869 past a row of tall houses of the 1700s, Zoffany House among them, where the painter lived, and three pubs on the water, the Bull's Head, the City Barge and the Bell and Crown. Oliver's Island sits just offshore, and at the top of a spring tide the river comes over the path and the sandbags go up.

Where

Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick, W4 3PQ

Nearest station

Kew Bridge · 9 min walk

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