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Average number of persons per inhabited house 5.48
„ „ „ acre 6.78
Rateable Value: Agricultural Land £15,203
Other Hereditaments £216,435
Assessable Value (1914) £209,668
General District Rate (1914-15) 4s. 3d.
Poor Rate: Heston (1914-15) 4s. 4d.
Isleworth 4s. 6d.
1d. in the £ for District Rate purposes produces £804
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
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 population enumerated at the Census of 1911 for the
entire district was 43,316, and the population to the middle of
1914 was estimated as 48,361. This figure has been used throughout
the report as the estimated gross population.