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| country                  = England
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| official_name            = Hammersmith
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| population               = 95,996
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| london_borough           = Hammersmith and Fulham
| constituency_westminster = [[Hammersmith and Chiswick (UK Parliament constituency)|Hammersmith and Chiswick]]
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| postcode_area            = W
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| static_image_caption     = [[Lyric Hammersmith|Lyric Theatre]], Hammersmith
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'''Hammersmith''' is a district of [[West London]], England, {{convert|4.3|mi|km|1}} southwest of [[Charing Cross]]. It is the administrative centre of the [[London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham]], and identified in the [[London Plan]] as one of 35 major centres in [[Greater London]].

It is bordered by [[Shepherd's Bush]] to the north, [[Kensington]] to the east, [[Chiswick]] to the west, and [[Fulham]] to the south, all on the north bank of the [[River Thames]]. The area is one of west London's main commercial and employment centres, and has for some decades been a major centre of London's [[Polish minority in United Kingdom|Polish community]]. It is a major transport hub for [[west London]], with two [[London Underground]] stations and a bus<!--called "Hammersmith Bus Station" by TfL https://tfl.gov.uk/bus/stop/490G000565/hammersmith-bus-station--> and coach station at [[Hammersmith Broadway]]. 

[[File:Hammersmith Town Hall in daylight - geograph.org.uk - 800796.jpg|thumb|[[Hammersmith Town Hall]]]]

==Toponymy==

Hammersmith may mean "(Place with) a hammer smithy or forge"<!--direct quotation!-->,<ref name=Mills1993>{{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=A. D. |title=A Dictionary of English Place-Names |date=1993 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=0192831313 |page=155 |edition=1st }}</ref> although, in 1839, [[Thomas Faulkner (topographer)|Thomas Faulkner]] proposed that the name derived from two 'Saxon' words: the initial ''Ham'' from [[List of generic forms in place names in Ireland and the United Kingdom|ham]] and the remainder from [[List of generic forms in place names in Ireland and the United Kingdom|hythe]], alluding to Hammersmith's riverside location.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Faulkner |first1=Thomas |author-link1=Thomas Faulkner (topographer) |title=The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Hammersmith: Interspersed with Biographical Notices of Illustrious and Eminent Persons, who Have Been Born, Or who Have Resided in the Parish, During the Three Preceding Centuries |date=1839 |publisher=Nichols & Son |location=London, UK |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EZULAAAAYAAJ|access-date=10 February 2021 |language=en}}</ref> In 1922, Gover proposed that the prefix was a personal name, Heahmaer or Hæmar, and stating that the suffix must be Anglo-Saxon from -myðe,<ref>{{cite book |title=Of ye olde Englisch langage and textes: new perspectives on Old and Middle English languages and literature |date=2020 |location=Frankfurt a.M. |isbn=9783631817957 |page=32|last1=Alonso |first1=Carlos Prado |last2=Lorido |first2=Rodrigo Pérez |last3=Rodríguez-Puente |first3=Paula }}</ref> meaning the junction of two rivers, as [[Hammersmith Creek]] merged with the Thames here.<ref name="Gover">{{cite book |last1=Gover |first1=J. E. B. |title=The Place Names of Middlesex |date=1922 |publisher=Longmans, Green and Co. |location=London, UK |url=https://archive.org/details/placenamesofmidd00goverich/page/62/mode/2up?q=northolt |access-date=7 June 2021}}</ref>{{rp|36}} The earliest spelling is Hamersmyth in 1294, with alternative spellings of Hameresmithe in 1312, Hamyrsmyth in 1535, and Hammersmith 1675.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mills |first1=A. D. |title=A dictionary of London place-names |date=2010 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford, UK. |isbn=9780199566785 |edition=2nd |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780199566785.001.0001/acref-9780199566785-e-641 |access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref>

==History==

The district was a chapelry of the ancient parish of [[Fulham]], but became a fully independent parish in 1631.<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |editor=Frederic A Youngs Jr |title=Guide to the Administrative Units of England |volume=1, Southern England |publisher=Royal Historical Society|year=1979 |isbn=0-901050-67-9 |page=325}}</ref> In the early 1660s, Hammersmith's first parish church, which later became [[St Paul's, Hammersmith|St Paul's]], was built by [[Sir Nicholas Crispe, 1st Baronet|Sir Nicholas Crispe]] who ran the brickworks in Hammersmith.<ref name="Thames-Guide">{{Cite book|author=|year=|chapter=Hammersmith|title=Royal Thames Guide|location=London|publisher=Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company|pages=9&ndash;11, [https://books.google.com/books?id=JO0XAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA11 page 11]|oclc=47982768}}</ref> It contained a monument to Crispe as well as a bronze bust of [[Charles I of England|King Charles I]] by [[Hubert Le Sueur]].<ref>The bust is a 1665 bronze copy of the marble bust made by LeSueur in 1631. {{cite web|title=Image of bronze bust of Charles I, Hammersmith|url=http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/images/combinedsearch/photos/JS_44_27a.jpg|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524134439/http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/images/combinedsearch/photos/JS_44_27a.jpg|archive-date=24 May 2013}}, {{cite web|title=Search Hammersmith Historical Sculptures: Charles I by Le Sueur|url=http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/Environment_and_Planning/Combined_search.asp?function=searchHS&title=Charles&artist=LE_SUEUR|url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524143104/http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/Environment_and_Planning/Combined_search.asp?function=searchHS&title=Charles&artist=LE_SUEUR|archive-date=24 May 2013}}</ref> In 1696 [[Samuel Morland|Sir Samuel Morland]] was buried there. The church was completely rebuilt in 1883, but the monument and bust were transferred to the new church.

In 1745, two Scots, [[Lee and Kennedy|James Lee and Lewis Kennedy]], established the [[Vineyard Nursery]], over six acres devoted to landscaping plants. During the next hundred and fifty years the nursery introduced many new plants to England, including [[fuchsia]] and the standard [[Rhododendron maximum|rose tree]].<ref>{{cite web |date=20 August 2010 |title=History of Olympia |publisher=London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council |url=http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/History_of_Olympia.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100911143455/http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/History_of_Olympia.asp |archive-date=11 September 2010 |url-status = dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author=Willson, Eleanor Joan |year=1961 |title=James Lee and the Vineyard Nursery, Hammersmith |location=London |publisher=Hammersmith Local History Group}}</ref>

1804 saw the trial of Francis Smith for the murder of Thomas Millwood in Beaver Lane, Hammersmith. Called the [[Hammersmith Ghost murder case]], it set a unique standard in English legal history.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Medland |first1=W. M. |last2=Weobly |first2=Charles |title=A Collection of Remarkable and Interesting Criminal Trials, Actions at Law, &c: To which is Prefixed, an Essay on Reprieve and Pardon, and Biographical Sketches of John Lord Eldon, and Mr. Mingay |date=1804 |publisher=Badcock |location=London, UK. |pages=206–215 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c5YuAAAAYAAJ |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=en}}</ref>

In 1868, Hammersmith was the name of a parish, and of a suburban district, within the [[hundred of Ossulstone]], in the county of [[Middlesex]].<ref>{{cite web |date=2 January 2017 |title=Hammersmith |url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/Hammersmith |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103014710/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/MDX/Hammersmith |archive-date=3 January 2018 |website=GENUKI |publisher=GENUKI Charitable Trust |location=Description and Travel }}</ref> Major industrial sites included the [[Osram]] lamp factory at [[Brook Green]], the [[J. Lyons and Co.|J. Lyons]] factory (which at one time employed 30,000 people). During both [[World War]]s, [[Waring & Gillow]]'s furniture factory, in [[Cambridge Grove]], became the site of aircraft manufacture.

Hammersmith Borough Council had provided the borough with electricity since the early twentieth century from [[Hammersmith power station]]. Upon [[Nationalization|nationalisation]] of the electricity industry in 1948 ownership passed to the [[British Electricity Authority]] and later to the [[Central Electricity Generating Board]]. Electricity connections to the [[National Grid (Great Britain)|national grid]] rendered the 20 megawatt (MW) [[coal-fired power station]] redundant. It closed in 1965; in its final year of operation it delivered 5,462 [[Kilowatt hour|MWh]] of electricity to the borough.<ref>''CEGB Statistical Yearbook 1965'', CEGB, London.</ref>

==Economy==
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Hammersmith is located at the confluence of one of the arterial routes out of central London (the [[A4 road (Great Britain)|A4]]) with several local feeder roads and a bridge over the Thames. The focal point of the district is the commercial centre (the Broadway Centre) located at this confluence, which houses a shopping centre, bus station, an [[Hammersmith tube station (Piccadilly and District lines)|Underground station]] and an office complex.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

[[File:King Street, Hammersmith, UK - panoramio.jpg|thumb|King Street]]

Stretching about {{cvt|750|m|yd}} westwards from this centre is [[King Street, Hammersmith|King Street]], Hammersmith's main shopping street. Named after [[John King (Bishop of London)|John King, Bishop of London]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://hamunitedcharities.org.uk/about-us/huc-history |title=HUC History |publisher=Hammersmith United Charities |access-date=2 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414033752/http://hamunitedcharities.org.uk/about-us/huc-history |archive-date=14 April 2016  }}</ref> it contains a second shopping centre ([[Livat Hammersmith]]), many small shops, the [[Hammersmith Town Hall|town hall]], the [[Lyric Hammersmith|Lyric Theatre]], a cinema, the [[Polish Social and Cultural Association|Polish community centre]] and two hotels. King Street is supplemented by other shops along Shepherds Bush Road to the north, Fulham Palace Road to the south and [[Hammersmith Road]] to the east. Hammersmith's office activity takes place mainly to the eastern side of its centre, along Hammersmith Road and in the [[The London Ark|Ark]], an office complex to the south of the [[Overpass|flyover]] which traverses the area.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

[[Charing Cross Hospital]] on Fulham Palace Road is a large multi-disciplinary [[National Health Service (England)|NHS]] hospital with accident & emergency and teaching departments run by the [[Imperial College School of Medicine]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Charing Cross Hospital |url=https://www.nhs.uk/Services/Hospitals/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=RYJ02 |publisher=NHS |access-date=15 May 2019}}</ref>

==Architecture==

[[The Ark, London|"The Ark" office building]], designed by British architect Ralph Erskine and completed in 1992, has some resemblance to the hull of a sailing ship.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.savills.com/intinvest/the_ark.html |title=Savills UK &#124; 404 |publisher=Savills.com |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100101150646/http://www.savills.com/intinvest/the_ark.html |archive-date=1 January 2010  }}</ref>  Hammersmith Bridge Road Surgery was designed by Guy Greenfield.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/hammersmith/ |title=Hammersmith Bridge Road Surgery London by Guy Greenfield |publisher=Galinsky.com |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120122033441/http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/hammersmith/ |archive-date=22 January 2012  }}</ref>
[[22 St Peter's Square]], the former Royal Chiswick Laundry and [[Island Records]] HQ, has been converted to architects' studios and offices by [[Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands]]. It has a [http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk Hammersmith Society] [http://www.hammersmithsociety.org.uk/awards/awards-2009 Conservation award] plaque (2009)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ealinggazette.co.uk/ealing-news/local-ealing-news/2009/05/27/best-and-worst-of-hammersmith-and-fulham-buildings-named-64767-23726569|title=Best and worst of Hammersmith and Fulham buildings named|author=Dan Hodges|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810042605/http://www.ealinggazette.co.uk/ealing-news/local-ealing-news/2009/05/27/best-and-worst-of-hammersmith-and-fulham-buildings-named-64767-23726569/|archive-date=10 August 2011|access-date=8 March 2010}}</ref> and has been included in tours in Architecture Week.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/event.asp?eventURN=3638 |title=architectureweek.org.uk |publisher=architectureweek.org.uk |date=24 June 2007 |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304052002/http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/event.asp?eventURN=3638 |archive-date=4 March 2012  }}</ref>
Several of Hammersmith's pubs are [[listed building]]s, including the ''[[Black Lion, Hammersmith|Black Lion]]'',<ref>{{NHLE|desc=The Black Lion public house|num=1192979|access-date=17 December 2013}}</ref> ''[[The Dove, Hammersmith|The Dove]]'',<ref>{{NHLE |desc=The Dove Inn public house|num=1079783|access-date=18 December 2013}}</ref> ''[[The George, Hammersmith|The George]]'',<ref>{{NHLE|desc=The George public house |num=1358573|access-date=19 December 2013}}</ref> ''[[The Hop Poles]]'',<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1079826 |desc=Hop Poles public house|access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> the ''[[Hope and Anchor, Hammersmith|Hope and Anchor]]'',<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1392791 |desc=Hope and Anchor Public House|access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> the ''[[Salutation, Hammersmith|Salutation Inn]]''<ref>{{National Heritage List for England |num=1079763 |desc=Salutation Inn|access-date=3 April 2015}}</ref> and ''[[The Swan, Hammersmith|The Swan]]'',<ref>{{NHLE|desc=The Swan public house|num=1192058|access-date=19 December 2013}}</ref> as are Hammersmith's two [[parish church]]es, [[St Paul's, Hammersmith|St Paul's]]<ref>{{NHLE |num= 1079802|desc= St Paul's, Hammersmith|access-date= 4 September 2014}}</ref> (the town's original church, rebuilt in the 1890s) and [[St Peter's Church, Hammersmith|St Peter's]], built in the 1820s.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1079843|desc=Church of St Peter|access-date=16 May 2015}}</ref>

==Culture and entertainment==
[[File:the dove pub1.jpg|thumb|right|upright|The ''Dove'' public house]]

[[Riverside Studios]] is a cinema, performance space, bar and cafe. Originally film studios, Riverside Studios were used by the [[BBC]] from 1954 to 1975 for television productions.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://database.theatrestrust.org.uk/resources/theatres/show/2790|title=Riverside Studios|website=<!-- No apostrophe. -->Theatres Trust|date=2017|access-date=27 July 2018}}</ref> The [[Lyric Theatre (Hammersmith)|Lyric Hammersmith Theatre]] is just off King Street.
[[Hammersmith Apollo]] concert hall and theatre (formerly the Carling Hammersmith Apollo, the Hammersmith Odeon, and before that the Gaumont Cinema) is just south of the gyratory.
The former [[Hammersmith Palais]] nightclub has been demolished and the site reused as student accommodation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pure Hammersmith|url=http://purestudentliving.com/our-properties/hammersmith|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907212918/http://purestudentliving.com/our-properties/hammersmith|url-status=dead|archive-date=7 September 2014|website=www.webcitation.org |access-date=8 April 2021}}</ref>
The [[Polish Social and Cultural Association]] is on King Street. It contains a theatre, an art gallery and several restaurants. Its library has one of the largest collections of Polish-language books outside Poland.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mabpz.org/ |title=Muzea, Archiwa, Biblioteki Polskie na Zachodzie |access-date=8 May 2018 |archive-date=21 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021060849/http://www.mabpz.org/ |url-status=bot: unknown }} of the Standing Conference of Polish Museums, Archives and Libraries</ref><ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Z3XzmHduXQC&pg=PA255 |title=Eccentric London |author=Benedict Le Vay|year=2007 |publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |isbn=9781841621937 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.untoldlondon.org.uk/news/ART44180.html |title=UnToldLondon |publisher=UnToldLondon |date=19 January 2012 |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120215212813/http://untoldlondon.org.uk/news/ART44180.html |archive-date=15 February 2012  }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/750000-and-rising-how-polish-workers-have-built-a-home-in-britain-466252.html|title=750,000 and rising: how Polish workers have built a home in Britain|last=Kirby|first=Terry|date=11 February 2006|work=The Independent|access-date=26 May 2011|url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101113052126/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/750000-and-rising-how-polish-workers-have-built-a-home-in-britain-466252.html|archive-date=13 November 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://posk.org |title=posk.org |publisher=posk.org |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227073458/http://www.posk.org/ |archive-date=27 February 2012  }}</ref>

''[[The Dove, Hammersmith|The Dove]]'' is a riverside pub with what the ''[[Guinness Book of Records]]'' listed as the smallest bar room in the world, in 2016 surviving as a small space on the right of the bar.<ref>{{cite web|title=About|url=http://www.dovehammersmith.co.uk/about|publisher=The Dove, Hammersmith|access-date=11 December 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161209102933/http://www.dovehammersmith.co.uk/about|archive-date=9 December 2016}}</ref> The pub was frequented by [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[Graham Greene]]; [[James Thomson (poet, born 1700)|James Thomson]] lodged and likely wrote ''[[Rule Britannia]]'' here.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cole |first1=Melissa |title=Beer Girl |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/aug/17/travelfoodanddrink.restaurants |access-date=11 December 2016 |work=The Guardian |date=17 August 2008 |url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221065710/https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2008/aug/17/travelfoodanddrink.restaurants |archive-date=21 December 2016  }}</ref> The narrow alley in which it stands is the only remnant of the riverside village of Hammersmith, the bulk of which was demolished in the 1930s. [[Furnivall Gardens]], which lies to the east, covers the site of [[Hammersmith Creek]] and the High Bridge.<ref name="londongardensonline">{{cite web |url=http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HAF018 |publisher=londongardensonline.org.uk |title=London Gardens Online |access-date=10 September 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408030613/http://www.londongardensonline.org.uk/gardens-online-record.asp?ID=HAF018 |archive-date=8 April 2016  }}</ref>

Leisure activity also takes place along Hammersmith's pedestrianised riverside, home to the pubs of Lower Mall, rowing clubs and the riverside park of [[Furnival Gardens]]. Hammersmith has a municipal park, [[Ravenscourt Park]], to the west of the centre. Its facilities include tennis courts, a basketball court, a bowling lawn, a paddling pool, and playgrounds.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.timeout.com/london/features/5576/5.html |title=Time Out, "London's best local parks," 29 August 2008 |publisher=Timeout.com |access-date=1 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120105013537/http://www.timeout.com/london/features/5576/5.html |archive-date=5 January 2012  }}</ref>

[[File:Lower Mall, Hammersmith from the river.jpg|thumb|center|700px|Lower Mall from the river, with [[Hammersmith Bridge]] on the right]]

Hammersmith is the historical home of the [[West London Penguin Swimming and Water Polo Club]], formerly known as the ''Hammersmith Penguin Swimming Club''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Penguin Swimming Club Of Hammersmith Pictures and Images |url=http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/penguin-swimming-club-of-hammersmith?excludenudity=true&sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=penguin%20swimming%20club%20of%20hammersmith |publisher=Getty Images |access-date=11 December 2016 |url-status = live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221202433/http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/photos/penguin-swimming-club-of-hammersmith?excludenudity=true&sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=penguin%20swimming%20club%20of%20hammersmith |archive-date=21 December 2016  }}</ref>
Hammersmith Chess Club has been active in the borough since it was formed in 1962. It was initially based in [[Westcott Lodge]], later moving to St Paul's Church, then to [[Blythe House]] and now Lytton Hall, near [[West Kensington tube station]].<ref>{{cite web |title=A Brief History of Hammersmith Chess Club – Hammersmith Chess Club |url=http://hammerchess.co.uk/2016/03/18/a-brief-history-of-hammersmith-chess-club/ |website=Hammersmith Chess Club |date=18 March 2016 |access-date=8 April 2021}}</ref>

==Transport==

The area is on the main A4 [[trunk road]] heading west from central London towards the [[M4 motorway]] and [[Heathrow Airport]]. The A4, a busy commuter route, passes over the area's main road junction, Hammersmith Gyratory System, on a long viaduct, the [[Hammersmith Flyover]].<ref>{{Cite journal | last1=Rawlinson | first1=S. R. J. | last2=Stott | first2=P. F. | doi=10.1680/iicep.1962.10813 | title=The Hammersmith Flyover | journal=ICE Proceedings | volume=23 | issue=4 | pages=565 | year=1962}}</ref> [[Hammersmith Bridge]] closed in August 2020 to pedestrians, cyclists and road traffic, severing the link with [[Barnes, London|Barnes]] in the southwest. Its cast iron pedestals that hold the suspension system in place had become unsafe.<ref name="lbhf" />

The centre of Hammersmith is served by two [[London Underground]] stations named Hammersmith: [[Hammersmith tube station (Circle and Hammersmith & City lines)|one]] is served by the [[Hammersmith & City line|Hammersmith & City]] and [[Circle line (London Underground)|Circle]] lines and [[Hammersmith tube station (District and Piccadilly lines)|the other]] is served by the [[Piccadilly line|Piccadilly]] and [[District line|District]] lines. The latter station is part of a larger office, retail and transport development, locally known as "The Broadway Centre". [[Hammersmith Broadway]] stretches from the junction of Queen Caroline Street and King Street in the west to the junction of Hammersmith Road and Butterwick in the east. It forms the north side of the gyratory system also known as Hammersmith Roundabout. The Broadway Shopping Centre includes a major bus station. The length of King Street places the westernmost shops and offices closest to [[Ravenscourt Park tube station|Ravenscourt Park Underground station]] on the [[District line]], one stop west of Hammersmith itself.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

==Hammersmith Bridge==
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The first Hammersmith Bridge was designed by [[William Tierney Clark]] and opened in 1827 and was the first [[suspension bridge]] crossing the [[River Thames]]. It was redesigned by [[Joseph Bazalgette]], and reopened in 1887.<ref name="Thames-Guide" /><ref>{{cite web |date=18 September 2012 |title=Bombs, bearings and barges – a brief history of Hammersmith Bridge |publisher=London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Council |url=http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Bombs_bearings_and_barges_A_brief_history_of_Hammersmith_Bridge.asp |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130302170714/http://www.lbhf.gov.uk/Directory/News/Bombs_bearings_and_barges_A_brief_history_of_Hammersmith_Bridge.asp |archive-date=2 March 2013 |url-status = dead}}</ref> In August 2020, it closed to pedestrians, cyclists and road traffic as the cast iron pedestals that hold the suspension system in place became unsafe. Work began to improve the structural integrity of the bridge in 2022.<ref name="lbhf">{{cite web |title=Hammersmith Bridge – all you need to know and latest updates |url=https://www.lbhf.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/hammersmith-bridge-all-you-need-know-and-latest-updates |website=Hammersmith & Fulham Council |date=12 October 2020 |access-date=10 February 2021}}</ref>

==In literature and music==
Hammersmith features in [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[Great Expectations]]'' as the home of the Pocket family. Pip resides with the Pockets in their house by the river and goes boating on the river.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Calvert |first1=Laurie |title=A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classics Edition of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations |url=http://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/greatexp.pdf |publisher=[[Penguin Books]] |access-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160215175501/http://www.penguin.com/static/pdf/teachersguides/greatexp.pdf |archive-date=15 February 2016 }}</ref> 
[[William Morris]]'s utopian novel ''[[News from Nowhere]]'' (1890) describes a journey up the river from Hammersmith towards [[Oxford]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Creating a utopian future: William Morris's News from Nowhere |url=http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/from-socialist-news-to-fine-art-printing-william-morriss-news-from-nowhere |publisher=[[The British Library]] |access-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160225033213/http://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/from-socialist-news-to-fine-art-printing-william-morriss-news-from-nowhere |archive-date=25 February 2016 }}</ref>

In 1930, [[Gustav Holst]] composed ''[[Hammersmith (Holst)|Hammersmith]]'', a work for military band (later rewritten for orchestra), reflecting his impressions of the area, having lived across the river in [[Barnes, London|Barnes]] for nearly forty years.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Music of Gustav Holst (1930) Hammersmith Op. 52 |url=http://www.gustavholst.info/compositions/listing.php?work=7 |website=GustavHolst.info |access-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211132320/http://www.gustavholst.info/compositions/listing.php?work=7 |archive-date=11 February 2017 }}</ref> It begins with a haunting musical depiction of the River Thames flowing underneath Hammersmith Bridge. Holst taught music at [[St Paul's Girls' School]] and composed many of his most famous works there, including his ''[[The Planets]]'' suite. A music room in the school is named after him.<ref name=ODNBHolst /> Holst dedicated ''Hammersmith'': "To the Author of "[[The Water Gipsies (novel)|''The Water Gypsies'']]".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Holst|first=Gustav|title=Hammersmith, Op. 52|publisher=Boosey & Hawkes|edition=Corrected Edition 1986|location=London|pages=1|type=Musical Score}}</ref>

==Notable people==

===17th century===

[[File:John-milton.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[John Milton]], poet]]

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* [[John Milton]] (1608–1674), poet<ref>[[Lewalski, Barbara K.]] ''The Life of John Milton''. Oxford: Blackwells, 2003.</ref>
* [[William Sheridan (Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh)|William Sheridan]] ({{Circa|1635}} – 3 October 1711), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh<ref name="british-history529">{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol6/pp529–548 |title=Hammersmith &#124; British History Online |website=British-history.ac.uk |date=1 March 2016 |access-date=6 March 2016}}</ref>
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===18th century===

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* [[William Belsham]] (1752–1827), political writer and historian<ref name="british-history529"/>
* [[Charles Burney (schoolmaster)|Charles Burney]] (1757–1817), schoolmaster<ref name="british-history529"/>
* [[Caroline of Brunswick]] (1768–1821), princess and Queen Consort of [[George IV]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Queen-Caroline/ |title=Queen Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV |website=Historic–uk.com |access-date=6 March 2016 }}</ref>
* [[William Crathern]] (born 1793), composer<ref name="Czerny2011">{{cite book|last=Czerny |first=Carl |title=Voluntaries for organ|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=519DfFWArvAC&pg=PR7 |access-date=6 March 2016 |year=2011 |publisher=A–R Editions |isbn=978-0-89579-709-4 |page=7}}</ref>
* [[Lee and Kennedy|Lewis Kennedy]] ({{circa|1721}} – 1782), nurseryman<ref name="Desmond 1994">{{cite dictionary |entry=Kennedy, Lewis |last=Desmond |first=Ray |title=Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists |year=1994 |entry-url={{GBurl|thmPzIltAV8C|p=396}} |pages=396, 421 |publisher=CRC Press |isbn=978-0-85066-843-8 }} Contains biographical entries concerning the Lees and Kennedys.</ref>
* [[Lee and Kennedy|James Lee]] (1715–1795), nurseryman<ref name="Desmond 1994"/>
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===19th century===

[[File:Eric Gill - self portrait.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Eric Gill]], typographer]]
[[File:Gustav Holst.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Gustav Holst]], composer]]

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* [[Frank Brangwyn]], artist, painter, and designer, lived at [[Temple Lodge]].<ref>{{cite web |title=BRANGWYN, Sir Frank (1867-1956) |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/frank-brangwyn/ |publisher=[[English Heritage]] |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[T. J. Cobden Sanderson]] (1840–1922), artist and bookbinder<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-31534032 |title=One man's obsession with rediscovering a lost typeface |publisher=[[BBC News]] |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[William Tierney Clark]] (1783–1852), civil engineer, designer of first Hammersmith bridge<ref>{{cite web|title=William Tierney Clark|url=http://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/william-tierney-clark|publisher=London Remembers|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920130530/http://www.londonremembers.com/subjects/william-tierney-clark|archive-date=20 September 2016}}</ref>
* [[Ellen and William Craft]], (1826–1891, 1824–1900), slave abolitionists<ref>{{cite web |title=English Heritage announces six more blue plaques to women for 2021 |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/six-new-blue-plaques/ |access-date=5 April 2021 |publisher=[[English Heritage]]}}</ref>
* [[Jeanne Deroin]] (1805–1894), French socialist feminist<ref>{{cite web |last=Laot |first=Françoise F. |title=Jeanne Deroin and Mutual Education of Women and Workers |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02315376/document |publisher=HAL archives ouvertes |access-date=26 August 2021 |date=2018}}</ref>
* [[Eric Gill]] (1882–1940), [[typography|typographer]] and [[printmaking|printmaker]]<ref name="HFHBG 2015">{{cite journal |title=Eric Gill in Hammersmith |url=http://www.hfhbg.org.uk/newsletters/Newsletter-33-Win-15.pdf |journal=Hammersmith and Fulham Historic Buildings Group Newsletter |issue=33 (Winter 2015) |access-date=13 August 2021 |page=6 |date=2015}}</ref>
* [[A. P. Herbert]] (1890–1971), humorist<ref name="Duncan2008">{{cite book |last=Duncan |first=Andrew |title=Walking London: Thirty Original Walks in and Around London |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YDAqXNNpGLsC&pg=PA198 |access-date=6 March 2016 |year=2008 |publisher=[[New Holland Publishers|New Holland]] Publishers|isbn=978-1-84773-054-1 |page=198}}</ref>
* [[Gustav Holst]] (1874–1934), composer, taught music at [[St Paul's Girls' School]]<ref name=ODNBHolst>{{cite ODNB |author-link=John Warrack |last=Warrack |first=John |title=Holst, Gustav Theodore |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33963?docPos=1 |date=January 2011 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/33963 |access-date=4 April 2013}} {{subscription required}}</ref>
* [[Leigh Hunt]] (1784–1859), critic, essayist, poet, and writer<ref name="british-history529" />
* [[Edward Johnston]] (1872–1944), scholar, credited with the revival of calligraphy<ref>{{cite web |title=3 Hammersmith Terrace |url=https://www.emerywalker.org.uk/hammersmith-terrace?lightbox=dataItem-izrfhish |website=Emery Walker's House |quote=No. 3: Was inhabited by calligrapher and typographer Edward Johnston |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[William Morris]] (1834–1896), artist, writer, socialist and activist<ref>{{cite book |title=The Life of William Morris: Volume One |last=Mackail |first=J. W. |year=1901 |publisher=[[Longmans, Green & Co.]] |location=London, New York, and Bombay |url=https://archive.org/details/lifeofwilliammor01mackuoft |pages=371–373}}</ref>
* [[Ouida]] (Maria Louise Ramé, 1839–1908), novelist<ref>{{cite web |title=DE LA RAMÉE, Marie Louise (1839-1908) a.k.a. Ouida |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/marie-louise-de-la-ramee/ |publisher=[[English Heritage]] |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[Francis Ronalds]] (1788–1873), inventor, built the first working telegraph at Hammersmith Mall<ref>{{cite web |title=Francis Ronalds |url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Francis_Ronalds |website=Grace's Guide |access-date=4 April 2022 |quote=By 1814, with the encouragement of Jean André de Luc, Ronalds began practical experiments in transmission of electricity in the garden of his house, later known as Kelmscott House, in Upper Mall, Hammersmith.}}</ref>
* [[Frederic George Stephens]] (1827–1907), art critic<ref>{{cite web |title=10 Hammersmith Terrace |url=https://www.emerywalker.org.uk/hammersmith-terrace?lightbox=dataItem-izrgddse |website=Emery Walker's House |quote=No. 10: Inhabited by FG Stephens, a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[Emery Walker]] (1851–1933), engraver and printer<ref name="emerywalker1">{{cite web |url=https://www.emerywalker.org.uk/ |title=Emery Walker's House: 7 Hammersmith Terrace |website=Emery Walker's House |access-date=3 September 2021}}</ref>
* [[Christopher Whall]] (1849–1924), stained glass artist<ref>{{cite web |title=WHALL, Christopher Whitworth (1849-1924) |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/christopher-whitworth-whall/ |publisher=[[English Heritage]] |access-date=3 October 2021}}</ref>
* [[Evelyn Whitaker]] (1844–1929), children's writer<ref>{{cite web |url=http://evelynwhitakerlibrary.org/id59.html |title=Biography: Evelyn Whitaker, 1844–1929 |website=Evelynwhitakerlibrary.org |date=18 July 2011 |access-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304044308/http://evelynwhitakerlibrary.org/id59.html |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}</ref>
* [[George Wimpey (businessman)|George Wimpey]] (1855–1913), stonemason<ref name="Room1992">{{cite book |last=Room |first=Adrian |title=Corporate Eponymy: A Biographical Dictionary of the Persons Behind the Names of Major American, British, European, and Asian Businesses |url=https://archive.org/details/corporateeponymy00room|url-access=registration |access-date=6 March 2016 |date=1992 |publisher=[[McFarland & Company|McFarland]] |isbn=978-0-89950-679-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/corporateeponymy00room/page/271 271]}}</ref>
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===1900–1945===
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[[File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Rosalind Franklin]], chemist]]

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* [[Alan Bond]] (1938–2015), businessman<ref name="obituary">{{cite news |last1=Tovey |first1=Josephine |title=Obituary: Alan Bond, 1938–2015 |url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/obituary-alan-bond-19382015-20150605-ghgnia.html |access-date=20 April 2016 |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=5 June 2015 |archive-date=9 June 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150609002023/http://www.smh.com.au/business/obituary-alan-bond-19382015-20150605-ghgnia.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[George Devine]] (1910–1966), director<ref>{{cite book |first=John |last=Osborne |title=Damn You England: Collected Prose |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGBQBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 |access-date=6 March 2016 |date=30 October 2014 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-0-571-31836-0 |page=110}}</ref>
* [[Mary Fedden]] (1915–2012), artist<ref name="Bennett2010">{{cite book |author=Phillippa Bennett |title=William Morris in the Twenty–first Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IVZhy3L4HY4C&pg=PA30 |access-date=6 March 2016 |year=2010 |publisher=Peter Lang |isbn=978-3-0343-0106-0 |page=30}}</ref>
* [[Rosalind Franklin]] (1920–1958), [[X-ray crystallography|X-ray crystallographer]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Berger |first=Doreen |title=A Biography of The Dark Lady Of Notting Hill |url=http://www.theus.org.uk/article/biography-dark-lady-notting-hill |publisher=United Synagogue Women |access-date=26 October 2016 |date=3 December 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604135134/http://www.theus.org.uk/article/biography-dark-lady-notting-hill |archive-date=4 June 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Sayre |first=A. |title=Rosalind Franklin and DNA |year=1975 |publisher=Norton |location=New York |isbn=0-393-07493-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/rosalindfranklin00anne}}</ref> 
* [[Jocelyn Herbert]] (1917–2003), stage designer<ref>{{cite news |author=Timothy O'Brien |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/may/08/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 |title=Obituary: Jocelyn Herbert |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305040751/http://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/may/08/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries1 |archive-date=5 March 2016  }}</ref>
* [[Helen Mirren]] (born 1945), actress<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london–life/helen–mirren–when–peter–morgan–sent–me–the–audience–script–i–emailed–him–you–bastard–8948681.html |title=Helen Mirren: When Peter Morgan sent me The Audience script I emailed him 'you bastard' |work=London Evening Standard |first=Nick |last=Curtis |date=19 November 2013 |access-date=16 August 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026162839/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london%E2%80%93life/helen%E2%80%93mirren%E2%80%93when%E2%80%93peter%E2%80%93morgan%E2%80%93sent%E2%80%93me%E2%80%93the%E2%80%93audience%E2%80%93script%E2%80%93i%E2%80%93emailed%E2%80%93him%E2%80%93you%E2%80%93bastard%E2%80%938948681.html |archive-date=26 October 2017  }}</ref>
* [[Maurice Murphy (musician)|Maurice Murphy]] (1935–2010), trumpet player<ref>{{cite news|author=Barry Millington |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/nov/29/maurice–murphy–obituary |title=Maurice Murphy obituary &#124; Music |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=6 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[Eric Newby]] (1919–2006), travel writer<ref name=Guardian>Nicholas Wroe,
 [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/09/books.guardianreview3 "Around the world in 80 ways"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160130071546/http://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jun/09/books.guardianreview3 |date=30 January 2016 }}, ''The Guardian'', 9 June 2001.</ref>
* [[Eric Ravilious]] (1903–1942), artist<ref>{{cite web |title=Eric Ravilious blue plaque in London |url=http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/eric–ravilious–blue–plaque–in–london–335#.VtyAT9CoPIU |website=Blue Plaque Places |access-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630092010/http://www.blueplaqueplaces.co.uk/eric%E2%80%93ravilious%E2%80%93blue%E2%80%93plaque%E2%80%93in%E2%80%93london%E2%80%93335#.VtyAT9CoPIU |archive-date=30 June 2016  }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |title=Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph |last=Ronalds |first=B.F. |publisher=Imperial College Press |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-78326-917-4 }}</ref>
* [[Tony Richardson]] (1928–1991), theatre and film director<ref name="Osborne2014">{{cite book |last=Osborne |first=John |title=Damn You England: Collected Prose |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AGBQBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT110 |access-date=6 March 2016 |date=30 October 2014 |publisher=[[Faber & Faber]] |isbn=978-0-571-31836-0 |page=110}}</ref>
* [[Diana Rigg]] (1938–2020), actress<ref>{{cite web |last1=Miller |first1=Compton |title=Living next to a celeb? |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/home/living-next-to-a-celeb-6966924.html |website=standard.co.uk |date=5 April 2012 |publisher=Evening Standard / ESI Media |access-date=16 November 2019}}</ref>
* [[Vidal Sassoon]] (1928–2012), hairdresser<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Vidal Sassoon |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=10 May 2012}}</ref>
* [[Labi Siffre]] (born 1945), musician<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bandonthewall.org/artists/labi%E2%80%93siffre/ |title=Artists &#124; Band on the Wall |website=bandonthewall.org |access-date=13 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624095427/http://bandonthewall.org/artists/labi%E2%80%93siffre/ |archive-date=24 June 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Julian Trevelyan]] (1910–1988), artist<ref name="CookeReed1993">{{cite book |author1=Mervyn Cooke |author2=Philip Reed|title=Benjamin Britten: Billy Budd |url=https://archive.org/details/benjaminbrittenb00cook |url-access=registration |access-date=6 March 2016 |date=8 July 1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-38750-7 |page=[https://archive.org/details/benjaminbrittenb00cook/page/42 42]}}</ref>
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===1946–2000===

[[File:JoeCalzaghe-July2007.jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Joe Calzaghe]], boxer]]
[[File:Rosamund Pike (5014686424).jpg|thumb|upright=0.5|[[Rosamund Pike]], actress]]

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* [[Alfie Allen]] (born 1986), actor<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.londontheatre.co.uk/actor-profile/alfie-allen |title=Alfie Allen – Stars On Stage |website=London Theatre |access-date=24 April 2019}}</ref>
* [[Lily Allen]] (born 1985), pop singer<ref>{{cite news |last=Barratt |first=Nick |title=Family detective |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=19 May 2007 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3632640/Family-detective.html |access-date=31 August 2018}}</ref>
* [[Richard Ayoade]] (born 1977), actor and comedian<ref>{{cite web |last1=Joshi |first1=Amita |title=The Crystal Maze set to make television comeback with Richard Ayoade as host |url=https://www.mylondon.news/whats-on/crystal-maze-set-make-television-12452252 |work=MyLondon |access-date=3 September 2021 |date=13 January 2017}}</ref>
* [[Bill Bailey]] (born 1964), comedian<ref>{{cite news |title=Living with the stars |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=8 September 2007}}</ref>
* [[Sacha Baron Cohen]] (born 1971), comedian and actor<ref>{{cite news |last1=Irvine |first1=Chris |title=The career of Sacha Baron Cohen |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=9 December 2010}}</ref>
* [[Marcus Bent]] (born 1978), footballer<ref>{{cite web |last=Swales |first=Andy |url=http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/10164792/marcus–bent–handed–12–month–suspended–prison–sentence |title=Marcus Bent handed 12–month suspended prison sentence |work=Sky Sports |publisher=[[Sky Sports]] |access-date=6 March 2016}}</ref>
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* [[Joe Calzaghe]] (born 1972), boxer<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Levy |first=Glen |url=http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1877963,00.html |title=Joe Calzaghe – TIME |magazine=Time |date=6 February 2009 |access-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307042946/http://content.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1877963,00.html |archive-date=7 March 2016  }}</ref>
* [[Parosha Chandran]] (born 1969), human rights barrister<ref>{{cite web |title=Parosha Chandran: 'Modern slavery in the UK is not confined to one place in the Midlands' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/jul/22/parosha-chandran-modern-slavery-uk-is-not-confined-to-midlands-leicester-covid-19 |website=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=7 March 2021 |language=en |date=22 July 2020}}</ref> 
* [[Sebastian Coe]] (born 1956), athlete and politician<ref>{{cite news |title=Lord Coe: timeline of an Olympic champion and sports administrator |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=19 August 2015 }}</ref>
* [[Marie Colvin]] (1956–2012), journalist<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Brenner |first=Marie |title=Marie Colvin's Private War |magazine=Vanity Fair }}</ref>
* [[Benedict Cumberbatch]] (born 1976), actor<ref>{{cite news |author=Phoebe Luckhurst |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london–life/english–charmers–the–similarities–between–benedict–cumberbatch–and–eddie–redmayne–9925262.html |title=English charmers: the similarities between Benedict Cumberbatch and Eddie Redmayne |newspaper=[[London Evening Standard]] |date=15 December 2014 |access-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026111259/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london%E2%80%93life/english%E2%80%93charmers%E2%80%93the%E2%80%93similarities%E2%80%93between%E2%80%93benedict%E2%80%93cumberbatch%E2%80%93and%E2%80%93eddie%E2%80%93redmayne%E2%80%939925262.html |archive-date=26 October 2017  }}</ref>
* [[James DeGale]] (born 1986), boxer<ref>{{cite news |last1=Anderson |first1=David |title=James DeGale backing himself to 'make history' in Andre Dirrell world title fight |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/james-degale-backing-himself-make-5699558 |newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=7 March 2016 |date=14 May 2015 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151129170946/http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/james-degale-backing-himself-make-5699558 |archive-date=29 November 2015 }}</ref>
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* [[Cara Delevingne]] (born 1992), model and actor<ref>{{cite news |title=Cara Delevingne: an A–Z of the ultimate Tatler girl |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/cara-delevingne-things-you-didnt-know |access-date=26 August 2021 |work=Tatler |date=5 June 2017}}</ref>
* [[Emerald Fennell]] (born 1985), filmmaker<ref>{{cite web |date=25 April 2021 |title=Who is Emerald Fennell and why does she look so familiar? Here's where you recognise the Oscars' golden girl from |url=https://www.glamourmagazine.co.uk/article/who-is-emerald-fennell |access-date=12 March 2022 |website=Glamour}}</ref>
* [[Ralph Fiennes]] (born 1962), actor<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite news |title=Living with the stars |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |date=8 September 2007}}</ref>
* [[Emilia Fox]] (born 1974), actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Emilia Fox: A long line of theatrical Emila used to be a childminder in her spare time before taking up acting ancestors... |url=http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/emilia-fox-65/ |website=TheGenealogist |access-date=29 December 2014 |date=20 September 2011 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229105318/http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk/featuredarticles/2011/who-do-you-think-you-are/emilia-fox-65/ |archive-date=29 December 2014  }}</ref>
* [[Nicholas Galitzine]] (born 1994), actor<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Murray|first=Iana|date=14 June 2023 |title=Meet the Hot Boys of the Steamy 'Red, White & Royal Blue' Movie |url=https://www.gq.com/story/gq-hype-red-white-and-royal-blue |access-date=24 August 2023 |magazine=[[GQ]] |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Hugh Grant]] (born 1960), actor<ref name="thetimes1">{{cite news |last=Griffiths |first=Sian |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/society/article/latymer-upper-school-forces-out-seven-over-drugs-c29wgvsnl |title=Latymer Upper School forces out seven over drugs |work=The Sunday Times |access-date=25 June 2018}}</ref>
* [[Michael Gove]] (born 1967), politician<ref>{{cite news |title=Londoner's Diary: Finally, Michael Gove flees the Notting Hill set |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/londoners-diary-finally-michael-gove-flees-the-notting-hill-set-a3498331.html |work=[[Evening Standard]] |date=24 March 2017}}</ref>
* [[George Groves (boxer)|George Groves]] (born 1988), boxer<ref>{{cite news |last1=Flanagan |first1=Aaron |title=What channel is George Groves vs Andrea Di Luisa on? |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/what-channel-george-groves-vs-7273954 |newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=7 March 2016 |date=30 January 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304140235/http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/boxing/what-channel-george-groves-vs-7273954 |archive-date=4 March 2016  }}</ref>
* [[Tom Hardy]] (born 1977), actor<ref>{{cite news |last=Grainger |first=Lisa |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ultratravel/9889047/Tom-Hardys-Travelling-Life.html |title=Tom Hardy's Travelling Life |newspaper=The Telegraph |date=18 April 2013 |access-date=15 January 2014 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502104905/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ultratravel/9889047/Tom-Hardys-Travelling-Life.html |archive-date=2 May 2013  }}</ref>
* [[Miranda Hart]] (born 1972), actor<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/miranda-hart-on-how-her-falklands-hero-106376 |title=Miranda Hart on how her Falklands hero dad's ship was bombed |date=26 January 2012 |newspaper=[[Daily Mirror]] |access-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305170145/http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/miranda-hart-on-how-her-falklands-hero-106376 |archive-date=5 March 2016  }}</ref>
* [[Gary Hibbs]] (born 1957), former professional footballer<ref name=Hugman>{{Hugman|8901|Gary Hibbs|access-date=1 April 2021}}</ref>
* [[Sophie Hunter]] (born 1978), theatre and opera director<ref>{{cite web|last1=O'Neill|first1=Lorena|title=Meet Sophie Hunter, Benedict Cumberbatch's Impressive Fiancee|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/meet–sophie–hunter–benedict–cumberbatchs–746592|website=The Hollywood Reporter}}</ref>
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* [[James May]] (born 1963), television presenter{{citation needed|date=September 2025}}
* [[Barbara Mayo]] (1946–1970), victim of unsolved murder<ref>{{cite AV media |title=Crimewatch UK January 1991 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDOnBKjucuQ |publisher=BBC |access-date=17 February 2022 |format=TV appeal |date=January 1991}}</ref>
* [[Douglas Murray (author)|Douglas Murray]] (born 1979), author, journalist<ref>{{cite news |last1=Law |first1=Katie |title=Douglas Murray on immigration, Islam and identity |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/douglas-murray-on-immigration-islam-and-identity-a3530586.html |work=The Evening Standard |date=4 May 2017 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918113544/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/douglas-murray-on-immigration-islam-and-identity-a3530586.html |archive-date=18 September 2017  }}</ref>
* [[Gary Numan]] (born 1958), musician<ref name=RG2003>{{cite book |last=Buckley |first=Peter |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&pg=PA735 |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |date=2003 |publisher=Rough Guides |isbn=978-1-84353-105-0 |page=735}}</ref>
* [[Majed Osman]] (born 1994), footballer<ref name=GSA>{{GSA player|majed-osman/461826|access-date=21 March 2021}}</ref>
* [[Scott Overall]] (born 1983), marathon runner<ref>{{cite news |title=London 2012 Meet Team GB Scott Overall |url=http://extras.thetimes.co.uk/public/olympic_athletes/athletics/men/scott-overall |newspaper=[[The Times]] |access-date=7 March 2016 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307172113/http://extras.thetimes.co.uk/public/olympic_athletes/athletics/men/scott-overall |archive-date=7 March 2016  }}</ref>
* [[Stuart Pearce]] (born 1962), footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Stuart Pearce|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/teammgr/Mgr_Pearce.html|work=England Football Online|access-date=7 March 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306194857/http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamMgr/Mgr_Pearce.html|archive-date=6 March 2016}}</ref>
* [[Rosamund Pike]] (born 1979), actor<ref>{{cite news |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |title=Rosamund Pike interview |first=Lucy |last=Cavendish |date=18 March 2009 }}</ref>
* [[Stephen Poliakoff]] (born 1952), playwright<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hammersmithtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&page=riverdevelop002.htm |title=Hammersmith's Local Community Web Site |location=51.490405 –0.232193 |website=Hammersmithtoday.co.uk |access-date=6 March 2016 |url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211131232/http://www.hammersmithtoday.co.uk/default.asp?section=info&page=riverdevelop002.htm |archive-date=11 February 2017  }}</ref>
* [[Imogen Poots]] (born 1989), actor<ref name="Shields">{{cite news |last=Shields |first=Rachel |date=2 May 2010 |title=Imogen Poots: A bright young thing who won't suffer for her art |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/imogen-poots-a-bright-young-thing-who-wont-suffer-for-her-art-1960382.html |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=2 May 2010}}</ref>
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*[[Jacob Rees-Mogg]] (born 1969), politician<ref>{{cite news|last1=Sabbagh|first1=Dan|date=9 February 2018|title=After decades in the making, Rees-Mogg's time may be coming|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/feb/09/after-decades-in-the-making-jacob-rees-mogg-time-may-be-coming|access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Bennett|first1=Clare|title=Inside Jacob Rees-Mogg|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/jacob-rees-mogg-trivia-facts|website=Tatler|date=22 January 2018 |access-date=22 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Toby Regbo]] (born 1991), actor<ref>{{cite web |title=Interview: Toby Regbo |url=http://www.movieramblings.com/2013/09/24/interview-toby-regbo/ |website=Movie Ramblings |access-date=3 September 2021 |archive-date=4 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201104194806/http://www.movieramblings.com/2013/09/24/interview-toby-regbo/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> 
* [[Alan Rickman]] (1946–2016), actor<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Slaughter |first1=Andy |author1-link=Andy Slaughter |title=The Alan Rickman I remember: a good man, a Labour activist - and a local boy |journal=[[New Statesman]] |date=14 January 2016 |url=https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/media/2016/01/alan-rickman-i-remember-good-man-labour-activist-and-local-boy}}</ref>
* [[Solomon Rose]] (born c. 1987), electronic musician<ref>{{cite web |last1=Jama |first1=Zainab |title=New talent: Silkie |url=https://www.factmag.com/2009/07/21/new-talent-silkie/ |work=[[Fact (UK magazine)|Fact]] |access-date=5 November 2024 |date=21 July 2009}}</ref>
* [[Luke Stoughton (cricketer)|Luke Stoughton]] (born 1977), cricketer<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/44/44010/44010.html |title=Player profile: Luke Stoughton |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=28 June 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[Estelle Swaray]] (born 1980), musician<ref>{{cite news|last1=Raphael|first1=Amy|title=Hammersmith homegirl Estelle back for more global glory|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/hammersmith–homegirl–estelle–back–for–more–global–glory–7309991.html|newspaper=[[Evening Standard]]|access-date=7 March 2016|date=20 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171026111754/https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/hammersmith%E2%80%93homegirl%E2%80%93estelle%E2%80%93back%E2%80%93for%E2%80%93more%E2%80%93global%E2%80%93glory%E2%80%937309991.html|archive-date=26 October 2017}}</ref>
* [[Juno Temple]] (born 1989), actress
* [[Suki Waterhouse]] (born 1992), actress and model<ref>{{cite web |last1=Edmonds |first1=Lizzie |title=Suki Waterhouse: 'I shouldn't care but I get upset when people send me negative tweets' |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/suki-waterhouse-i-shouldn-t-care-but-i-get-upset-when-people-send-me-negative-tweets-a3359801.html |website=Evening Standard|date=3 October 2016 }}</ref>
* [[Alan Wilder]] (born 1959), electronic musician<ref name="Larkin2011">{{cite book |last=Larkin |first=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_NNmFiUnSmUC&pg=PA2006-IA1730 |date=27 May 2011|publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-0-85712-595-8 |page=2006}}</ref>
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==See also==
{{Portal|London}}
* [[List of districts in Hammersmith and Fulham]]

==References==
{{Reflist|30em}}

==External links==
{{EB1911 poster|Hammersmith}}
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.lbhf.gov.uk London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham]
* [http://www.hammersmithtoday.co.uk Hammersmith's local community web site]
* [http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/Hammersmith/HammersmithHistory.html Description of Hammersmith in 1868] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227041053/http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/Hammersmith/HammersmithHistory.html |date=27 February 2009 }}
* [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20310 Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney], by Geraldine Edith Mitton and [[John Cunningham Geikie]], 1903, from [[Project Gutenberg]]

{{Geographic Location
|title = '''Adjoining districts'''
|Northwest = [[Acton, London|Acton]]
|North     = [[Shepherd's Bush]], Hammersmith
|Northeast = [[Notting Hill]], North Kensington
|West      = [[Chiswick]]
|Centre    = Hammersmith
|East      = [[Kensington]]
|Southwest = Chiswick (part of)
|South     = [[Barnes, London|Barnes]]
|Southeast = [[Fulham]]}}
{{LB Hammersmith & Fulham}}
{{London Districts}}
{{Authority control}}

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[[Category:History of the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham]]
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[[Category:Places formerly in Middlesex]]
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