HAMMERSMITH, a large village, a part of the pariſh of Fulham, in the hundred of Oſſulton, in the county of Middleſex. It is about three or four miles from the capital; but from thence to the end of it are continued ſtreets, which make it a kind of prolongation of the metropolis. It ſtands on the Thames, on whose banks, within this diſtrict, are many beautiful villas and ſplendid houſes. There is
an eſtabliſhment for the education of young ladies of the Hammock Roman Catholic church, amongſt whom are ſome profeſſed nuns. There are alſo a great number of other boarding Hammock schools of various claſſes. There is a chapel in the centre of the village, of the eſtabliſhed religion, and ſeveral for both Catholic and Protestant diſſenters. The population amounted in 1801 to 5600, in 1811 to 7393, in 1821 to 8809, and in 1831 to 10,222.