A meander through some of the highlights of two towns and seven villages that today form the London Borough of Hounslow; Bedfont, has a picturesque 11th century church, while architect James Wyatt lived in the Royal Manor of Hanworth and later universal provider William Whiteley owned extensive farmland there. By contrast Gunnersbury House, a former home of the Rothschild banking family, now houses Hounslow Borough's museum.

Encounter an Elizabethan timber framed former public house, homes for the poor built in the reign of Charles II, as well a ghost or two, during this snapshot of highlights from three riverside settlements, where painters Van Gogh, Turner and Hogarth once lived.

Hear tales of the 1642 Battle of Brentford, a vegetable market, the town hall that never was, and marvel at the history of Boston Manor, a fine Jacobean manor house, once one of London's lesser known gems.