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Wheatlands, HOUNSLOW, TW5 0SB

Designed by Rosemary Smith Marriott

The eastern corner.

The two blocks of flats are Fenton House and Bellamy House.

This is the western edge of Osterley Park which is home to quite a few horses. This bit doesn't really seem like a park at all, more like rather neglected farmland. Even the footpath enters and leaves the park via sort of gaps in the fence rather than proper gates. I'm not knocking it though, it's a pleasant enough place for a walk.

Osterley Park and its surrounding gardens, park, fields and farmland is one of the last surviving country estates in London. In 1565, Sir Thomas Gresham, financier and adviser to Elizabeth I, built a house here in a very similar location to the one today. In 1713, the Osterley estate was acquired by the Child family and in the 1760s they commissioned Robert Adam to remodel it. The Childs were a banking family with a house in central London, and they used Osterley as a country villa for entertaining. When the heiress Sarah Sophia Child married the 5th Earl of Jersey in 1804, the family moved to the Jersey estate at Middleton Park in Oxfordshire. Osterley remained in the Jersey family ownership until the Ninth Earl of Jersey gave it to the National Trust in 1949. Apart from the more formal ground and lake surrounding the house, there are a number of footpaths through the surrounding parkland. This is Osterley Fields, to the west of the formal parkland. Footpaths cross the fields and this view is from one of these. There are a number of tethered horses and some of these are seen here. The blocks of flats are in Heston.

Osterley Park and its surrounding gardens, park, fields and farmland is one of the last surviving country estates in London. In 1565, Sir Thomas Gresham, financier and adviser to Elizabeth I, built a house here in a very similar location to the one today. In 1713, the Osterley estate was acquired by the Child family and in the 1760s they commissioned Robert Adam to remodel it. The Childs were a banking family with a house in central London, and they used Osterley as a country villa for entertaining. When the heiress Sarah Sophia Child married the 5th Earl of Jersey in 1804, the family moved to the Jersey estate at Middleton Park in Oxfordshire. Osterley remained in the Jersey family ownership until the Ninth Earl of Jersey gave it to the National Trust in 1949. Apart from the more formal ground and lake surrounding the house, there are a number of footpaths through the surrounding parkland. This is Osterley Fields, to the west of the formal parkland. Footpaths cross the fields and this view is from one of these. There are a number of tethered horses here and some of these are seen here. The blocks of flats are in Heston.

A view looking east on Wheatlands