Brentford was a constituency named after the town of Brentford in Middlesex and was drawn to take in Hounslow, Norwood Green and Twickenham. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the UK Parliament. The constituency was created for the 1885 general election and abolished for that of 1918.

The local government district of Brentford, the civil parishes of Heston, Isleworth, Norwood (also known as Norwood Green), and Twickenham, and part of the civil parish of Hanwell.

Context

The constituency was in the south-west of Middlesex, in present outer-southwest London. It was one of seven divisions of a soon-to-be County of London). It was named after its medieval market town of Brentford, on the north (Middlesex) bank of the River Thames.^[1] The seat bordered the Ealing division to the north and north-east, Kingston to the south-east and Uxbridge from the north-west to south-west.

Brentford had been the husting place for the two-member county of Middlesex since 1700, 155 years after the formation of the second breakaway urban division of Middlesex, the two-member seat of Westminster.^[2] The county as a whole saw 47 members replacing 18 before 1885, the greatest absolute rise of any county at a national boundary review.^[1]

Successors

Both of the seat's successors took in parts of an adjoining Middlesex division (seat).^[3]

Present administrative tiers

In 1965 the area of this old division became parts of the London Boroughs of Hounslow, Richmond upon Thames and Ealing.^[4]