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Brentford, SD -- U.S. town in South Dakota
Population (2000): 65
Housing Units (2000): 29
Land area (2000): 0.165220 sq. miles (0.427919 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.165220 sq. miles (0.427919 sq. km)
FIPS code: 07060
Located within: South Dakota (SD), FIPS 46
Location: 45.159216 N, 98.323267 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 57429
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Brentford

Brentford is a town in west London, England, historic county town of Middlesex and part of the London Borough of Hounslow, at the confluence of the River Brent and the Thames, west-by-southwest of Charing Cross. It has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

Its economy has diverse company headquarters buildings which mark the start of the M4 corridor; in transport it also has two railway stations and the Boston Manor tube station on its north-west border with Hanwell. Brentford has a convenience shopping and dining venue grid of streets at its centre. Brentford at the start of its 21st century attracted regeneration of its little-used warehouse premises and docks including the re-modelling of the waterfront to provide more economically active shops, townhouses and apartments, some of which comprises Brentford Dock. A 19th and 20th centuries mixed social and private housing locality: New Brentford is contiguous with the Osterley neighbourhood of Isleworth and Syon Park and the Great West Road which has most of the largest business premises.

Brentford (disambiguation)
  • Brentford, a town in Middlesex, West of London in England
  • Brentford F.C., an English football club
  • Viscount Brentford, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
  • Battle of Brentford (1016)
  • Battle of Brentford (1642)
  • The Brentford Trilogy, a series of books written by Robert Rankin
  • Brentford, South Dakota, a town in Spink County, U.S.A.
Brentford (UK Parliament constituency)

Brentford was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Brentford district of west London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created for the 1885 general election, and abolished for the 1918 general election.

Usage examples of "brentford".

Rooftop views of Brentford were all very pleasant of course, but they did tend to become a little samey.

It had been a moment of rare inspiration indeed on Pooley's part, but one which was to play its part in changing the face of Brentford as we know it for good and all.

Things were going to change in Brentford and there was little good in crying over spilt milk or whistling down the wind.

The people of Brentford would certainly sit up and take notice of this one.

If such a symbol has ever existed, or even does so now, there is one man in Brentford who is bound to know what it is.

But considering the eventual good which his great quest would bring to the people of Brentford, the shopkeeper considered the sacrifice to be a small and necessary one.

It would be a tragedy indeed if Brentford lost the best part-time barman it ever had.

A bit of a tilt northwards and Brentford would enjoy tropical summers, a mite more later in the year and there would be tropical winters too.

An entire stretch of Grand Union Canal had drained forthwith into Soap's diggings and that had been the last Brentford had seen of the Hollow Earther.

It had all the makings of the average Brentford front sitter: the moquette three-piece, the nylon carpet, the occasional table whose occasion was yet to come, the fitted bookshelves and the television set.

He had supervised the numerous raffles and alehouse events, acted as oracle and confessor to local drunks, and strangely and happily had evolved into an accepted part of the Brentford landscape.

Darts wasn't just a game in Brentford, it was a religion, and the Flying Swan its high temple.

Those crop-headed aficionados of the steely toecap had been met head on by the students of the Brentford Temple of Dimac Martial Arts Society, who had been Umbering up for their evening's training schedule with a fifteen-mile run.

As hot-dog men and ice-cream sellers, who have an almost magical knack of appearing at such moments, moved amongst the spectators, the Brentford bobbies went about their busiĀ­ ness with a will, striking down friend and foe alike.

Anyway, every house in Brentford has water, every house in the country, surely?