Grove Park Farm also known as Smiths Farm, it was part of the bigger Grove Farm on land owned by the Duke of Devonshire, which was replace by Chiswick County (Grammar) school in 1948Joseph Jessop or namesake was listed as a market gardener in 1862 and was still at Grove Park Farm in 1887, it was one of the parish’s 17 agricultural holdings in 1900 and 5 in 1920, presumably the only one of more than 150. The Fields had gone by 1930 when there were only 2 smallholding's, but the Grove Park Farmhouse still survives today.http://www.dukesmeadowspark.com/groveparkfarm.html
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