London Borough of Hounslow

London Borough of Hounslow
Shown within Greater London
Geography
Status:	London borough
Area: - Total	Ranked 292nd 55.98 km²
ONS code:	00AT
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 55th 216,644 3,870 / km²
Ethnicity:	64.9% White 24.7% S.Asian 4.4% Afro-Carib.
Politics
Hounslow London Borough Council http://www.hounslow.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Labour
MPs:	Ann Keen, Alan Keen
London Assembly: - Member	South West London - Tony Arbour

The London Borough of Hounslow is a London borough in west outer London. It includes the areas:

As of 2004, the various electoral wards of Hounslow are divided up into 5 Areas:

Chiswick
- Chiswick Homefields
- Chiswick Riverside
- Turnham Green
Central Hounslow
- Hounslow Central
- Hounslow Heath
- Hounslow South
- Hounslow West
Isleworth and Brentford
- Brentford
- Isleworth
- Osterley and Spring Grove
- Syon
Heston and Cranford
- Cranford
- Heston East
- Heston Central
- Heston West
West
- Bedfont
- Feltham North
- Feltham West
- Hanworth Park
- Hanworth

History

The borough was formed in 1965 by the merger of the Middlesex urban districts of Brentford and Chiswick , Feltham and Heston and Isleworth .

Phil Collins, former drummer and singer with Genesis.
Asif Mohammed Hanif , believed to have been the first suicide bomber in Israel from the UK, came from Hounslow.

The borough is home to the HQ of Glaxo Smith Klein , and Sky Televisions studio complex, both based in Osterley.