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AREA.
The Urban District of Heston and Isle worth, in the County
of Middlesex, has an area of 6,893 acres. It comprises the two
parishes of Heston and Isleworth, and is divided for civil purposes
into five wards.
Heston Parish includes Heston and Hounslow North Wards,
and has an area of 3,708 acres. The Parish of Isleworth lies to
the east and south of Heston, and is situate on the western bank
of the River Thames where that river winds to the north-east
towards Kew. The area of this Parish, which embraces Isleworth
North and South and Hounslow South Wards, is 3,185 acres.
PHYSICAL FEATURES.
The level of the District rises gradually from the River Thames
and reaches at Heston a height of 100 feet above Ordnance Datum.
The geological subsoil formation is valley gravel, which is
covered in large areas by loam. This thin loamy covering is of
great value for market gardening, to which considerable portions
of land within the district are devoted.
POPULATION.
The population enumerated at the Census of 1911 for the entire
district was 43,316, and I have estimated the population to the 30th
June, 1911, at 43,684, and this figure has been used throughout the
report as the estimated gross population.
The details of the recent Census have not yet been published,
and I am not therefore in a position to make comparison with the
Census of 1901.
In Table I. at the end of this report, it will be noted that the
number of people living in institutions in this district but belonging
to other districts is 1,158. These are technically known as " nonresidents."
This number when deducted from the estimated gross
population gives the estimated nett population, namely, 42,526.
In the light of the known population at 1st April, 1911, I have
reviewed the estimated figures since 1906, and these figures are to be
found in Table I. at the end of the report.