Chiswick has three main parts, one of which is physically divided from the rest.

The core is around Chiswick High Road with its shops and restaurants. It is very much a London village with its own distinctive flavour and local specialities. It is also sufficiently far away from the river for the flight path into Heathrow not to be too much of a problem.

The area between Chiswick High Road and the A4 is very typical of West London with Edwardian streets of medium-sized family houses of the type that is very common in Fulham. To the north is Bedford Park which has a very distinctive feel due to its arts and crafts Edwardian architecture which buyers tend to either love or hate. This is an area of big houses and green spaces and correspondingly high prices. Also to the south of the A4 is Grove Park with earlier Victorian houses intermingled with houses built in the 1950s and 1960s as a result of stray bomb-damage during the war.

The real gem in Chiswick is Chiswick Mall, an almost completely unspoiled terrace of Georgian houses with gardens running down to the river and views over to Barnes and Hammersmith Bridge. This is a real rus in urbe with an atmosphere that is almost unique in London. Beautiful and charming though it is it is completely cut off from the rest of Chiswick by the huge arterial road that is the A4. All access to it by car is via the Hogarth roundabout and there are few shops of any description nearby. As the river is the main flight path into Heathrow, aeroplanes can be a problem.

Communications by underground are good and the A4 and the Hammersmith flyover means that, apart from at peak times, road access is reasonable. Prices on Chiswick Mall and in Grove Park are not much less than in Central London.

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