Osterley ( ) is an affluent district of

Isleworth Isleworth ( ) is a suburban town in the London Borough of Hounslow, West London, England. It lies immediately east of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary the River Crane, London, River Crane. Isleworth's original area of ...

in west London, England, from

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in the

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. Most of its land use is mixed agricultural and aesthetic parkland at Osterley House (

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), charity-run, much of which is open to paying visitors. Osterley is on elevated soil, bisected by the A4 (Great West Road), and extends north of the M4 motorway. Syon Lane forms the border to the east, while the border with Heston is to the west. Osterley extends south of the A4, including St Mary's Church. Most of the land of Osterley is the large ancestral private estate of Osterley Park (one of the largest open spaces in west London) and its mansion. These were formerly owned by the Jersey family and were used during World War II as the home for Tom Wintringham's Home Guard training school. They are now

property. In the 1930s, when the Great West Road was completed, ribbon development housing appeared, and this gradually expanded to form the comparatively small residential sections within Osterley. Besides Osterley House and Park, the district is also known for one of the London residences of The Sultan of Brunei (Aviary Farm in Windmill Lane).

Sport and Leisure

Osterley has a

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club CB Hounslow United F.C. who play at the Osterley Sports Ground. The training ground of

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club

Brentford Brentford is a suburban town in West (London sub region), West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the River Thames, Thames, west of Charing Cross. Its economy has dive ...

is located at 100 Jersey Road, Osterley.

Demography and housing

In the 2011 census, the Osterley ward was recorded as being 30%

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. Other significant ethnic groups were

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s (12.8%) and Indians. The proportion who ethnically identify as BAME (Black, Asian and minority Ethnic) was 54.4% of the population. 51.9% of people living in Osterley were born in the U.K. The other most common countries of birth were India (12.7%), Pakistan (2.8%), Kenya (2.2%), Ireland (1.8%), and North Africa (1.3%). The largest religious affiliations in Isleworth are

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(39.2%),

Muslims Muslims () are people who adhere to Islam, a Monotheism, monotheistic religion belonging to the Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic tradition. They consider the Quran, the foundational religious text of Islam, to be the verbatim word of the God ...

(13.8%),

Hindus Hindus (; ; also known as Sanātanīs) are people who religiously adhere to Hinduism, also known by its endonym Sanātana Dharma. Jeffery D. Long (2007), A Vision for Hinduism, IB Tauris, , pp. 35–37 Historically, the term has also be ...

(13.7%), those with no religion (11.9%), and

Sikhs Sikhs (singular Sikh: or ; , ) are an ethnoreligious group who adhere to Sikhism, a religion that originated in the late 15th century in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, based on the revelation of Guru Nanak. The term ''Sikh'' ...

(11.8%).

Transport and locale

Nearest tube station

* Osterley tube station

Nearest railway stations

* Syon Lane railway station * Isleworth railway station

Nearest places

Kew Gardens Kew Gardens is a botanical garden, botanic garden in southwest London that houses the "largest and most diverse botany, botanical and mycology, mycological collections in the world". Founded in 1759, from the exotic garden at Kew Park, its li ...

is approximately 20 minutes away.

References

{{Authority control Areas of London Districts of the London Borough of Hounslow Places formerly in Middlesex