Brentford (UK Parliament constituency)

Brentford
Former County constituency for the House of Commons
1885–1918
Number of members	one
Replaced by	Brentford and Chiswick, Twickenham and Spelthorne
Created from	Middlesex

Brentford was a constituency named after the former town of Brentford in Middlesex — it included other more westerly districts of present west London including Hounslow and Twickenham. It returned one Member of Parliament 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.

The constituency was toward the south-west of Middlesex, in present outer west-southwest London. It was one of seven divisions of the residual county and named after its medieval market town of Brentford, on the north (Middlesex) bank of the River Thames. The seat bordered the "Ealing" division to the north and north-east, "Kingston" to the south-east and the "Uxbridge" division from the north-west to south-west. In 1965 the town of Brentford became part of the London Borough of Hounslow and Greater London.

Brentford had been the husting (and thus in-person voting) 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. The seat was formed as one of seven divisions of Middlesex created in 1885. The county as a whole saw 47 members replacing 18 before 1885, the greatest absolute rise in seats of any county at a national boundary review.

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