The Hogarth Roundabout sees the merger of two of the nine direct feeders to the main radial roads to or from London. Namely the

A316 The A316, known in parts as the Great Chertsey Road, is a major road in England, which runs from the A315 Chiswick High Road, Turnham Green, Chiswick to join head-on the M3 motorway at Sunbury-on-Thames. Its initial London section Chiswick L ...

Great Chertsey Road The A316, known in parts as the Great Chertsey Road, is a major road in England, which runs from the A315 Chiswick High Road, Turnham Green, Chiswick to join head-on the M3 motorway at Sunbury-on-Thames. Its initial London section Chiswic ...

and the A4 Great West Road in Chiswick. In addition Dorchester Grove, becoming Chiswick Lane, branches off to the north and Church Lane to the conserved, affluent,

Old Chiswick Old Chiswick is the area of the original village beside the river Thames for which the modern district of Chiswick is named. The village grew up around St Nicholas Church, founded c. 1181 and named for the patron saint of fishermen. The placena ...

nucleus to the south. It contains trees and is much-lined with greenery yet is at surface level, save for a one-way flyover for much of the lighter eastbound traffic.

Roundabout

The roundabout is named after the eighteenth-century painter

William Hogarth William Hogarth (; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an English painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, social critic, editorial cartoonist and occasional writer on art. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like ...

whose home is behind a long, high wall west of the junction:

Hogarth's House Hogarth's House is the former country home of the 18th-century English artist William Hogarth in Chiswick, adjacent to the A4. The House now belongs to the London Borough of Hounslow and is open to visitors as a historic house museum free of ...

. The eastern approach abuts the

Griffin Brewery Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick in the west of London was a family-run business from its foundation in 1845 until 2019. In that year, the brewing division of Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC was sold to the Japanese international beverage giant Asahi. ...

Fuller, Smith and Turner Fuller's Brewery in Chiswick in the west of London was a family-run business from its foundation in 1845 until 2019. In that year, the brewing division of Fuller, Smith & Turner PLC was sold to the Japanese international beverage giant Asahi. ...

where beer has been brewed since 1654. The south side has the 18th-century George and Devonshire pub. Another pub by the roundabout, the Mawsons Arms on Chiswick Lane, was sold along with the brewery to

Asahi Asahi (朝日, 旭, or あさひ) means "morning sun" in Japanese and may refer to: Cities * Asahi, Chiba (旭市; ''Asahi-shi'') Wards * Asahi-ku, Osaka (旭区; ''Asahi-ku'') * Asahi-ku, Yokohama (旭; ''Asahi-ku'') Towns * Asahi, Aichi (旭� ...

in 2019.

The junction is important for road transport as it is the only non-circuitous route to Heathrow Airport from the City and the West End. On 29 October 2013, after the previous day's stormy winds, Transport for London inspectors discovered 'defects' and closed the flyover, declaring it "unsafe". Garrett Emmerson stated its engineers identified a degradation in the concrete deck of the flyover. Traffic thus concentrated with queues in day-time back to the Hammersmith flyover and many more miles, at morning peak, to the west.

Flyover

The junction is noteworthy for the single-lane flyover to ease some eastbound traffic from the A316 onto the A4. It was built as a temporary measure in 1971, using the Bridgway format devised and offered to highway authorities by Marples Ridgeway Ltd. The flyover was quickly put together with a cheap steel frame and was designed to last no more than a few years. The central span has pairs of diagonal cross-braces to give the structure strength and help protect it against strong winds. The junction would have been in the plans for

London Ringways The London Ringways were a series of four ring roads planned in the 1960s to circle London at various distances from the city centre. They were part of a comprehensive scheme developed by the Greater London Council (GLC) to alleviate traffic con ...

– shelved in the latter years of the 20th century. These would have a more durable structure put in place. In the early 2010s a major refurbishment: a new deck, surface and parapets has ensured its survival and confirmed its stature as a permanent fixture. The work opened in September 2014, at a total cost of £3 million.

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External links

To Gin Lane Via Hogarth's Roundabout

SABRE road lists

CBRD Photo Gallery
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