Brentford is a suburban town in the London Borough of Hounslow, located 8 miles west of Charing Cross at the confluence of the River Thames and the Brent. Known to the Anglo-Saxons as Breguntford ("ford over the high river"), the area was settled by the Britons even before the founding of London by the Romans, and Julius Caesar crossed the Thames at Brentford in 54 BC. In 1642, the neighborhood was the site of the Battle of Brentford during the English Civil War. During the 21st century, Brentford's little-used warehouse premises and docks were regenerated, and the waterfront was remodeled with more economically active shops, townhouses, and apartments. In 2011, Brentford had a population of 27,907 people, and the "Brentford & Isleworth" parliamentary constituency was a battleground between Labour and the Conservative Party (and the Liberal Democrats, to a lesser degree).
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