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AREA.
The Urban District of Heston and Isleworth, 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 figure used for this report has been 36,311, the estimated
gross population. It has been obtained by assuming, according
to the method of the Registrar-General, that the population of
each parish has increased at the same rate per annum since the
census of 1901 as during the inter-censal period 1891-1901.
Population at middle of 1910:—
Parish of Heston 11,859
Parish of Isleworth 24.452
Urban District of Heston & Isleworth 36,311
(by summation)
This estimate is probably low, as the Clerk to the Council
basing bis calculation on the asumption that the number of
inhabitants per occupied house is the same for censal and intercensal
years figures the population at April, 1910, as 41,067.