Other current and historical names
Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Hammersmith within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.
Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew
Hammersmith, parl bor. and par., Middlesex, on river Thames, in W. of London, 2287 ac., pop. 71,939; Hammersmith returns 1 member to Parliament; it was made a parliamentary bor. in 1885. Hammersmith Suspension Bridge across the Thames was erected in 1825-27, at a cost of £80,000; it is 688 ft. long and 20 ft. wide, and was the first suspension bridge erected near London.