| Topic: | Re:Re:Re: Adrian Irving Glebe Estate | |
| Posted by: | Bernard Allen | |
| Date/Time: | 02/12/22 17:42:00 |
| By Gillian Clegg, Brentford & Chiswick Local History Journal 12, 2003 That charming little enclave of Victorian cottages between Duke Road and Devonshire Road, Glebe Street and Fraser Street has become one of the most desirable, not to say expensive, places in which to live, which is somewhat ironic since the houses were built as homes for Chiswick’s less affluent. The area is known as the Glebe Estate since the field on which it was built was ‘glebe land’ – land which had been formally assigned to the local church as part of the incumbent’s benefice in 1840. The Ordnance Survey map of 1865 shows it as just an open field, bounded on the west by Duke’s Avenue (the carriageway to Chiswick House built in the 1820s by the Duke of Devonshire), on the east by Chiswick Field Lane, which later became Devonshire Road; on the north by the grounds of Linden House (now Linden Gardens) and on the south by Chiswick New Town, a development of workers’ cottages built in the 1820s and replaced by council flats in the 1950s (see Journals 6 and 9). In 1869 the glebe field was made available for building. An indenture drawn up on the first day of May 1869 shows that the Reverend Lawford William Torriano Dale, vicar of St Nicholas Church, Chiswick, acting as lessor, with consent from the field’s owners the Ecclesiastical Commissioners and St Paul’s Cathedral assigned the lease to Alexander Fraser of Campden Hill, Kensington who was a civil engineer, Joseph Quick of Clapham and his son, also Joseph Quick, of Sumner Street, Southwark (both also civil engineers) and George Reckitt of Sydenham Hill, Esq. |