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|population_ref = ( and wards ) |official_name = Hook |os_grid_reference = TQ183641 |post_town = CHESSINGTON |postcode_area = KT |postcode_district = KT9 |london_borough = Kingston |dial_code = 020 |constituency_westminster = Kingston and Surbiton |latitude = 51.3635 |longitude = -0.2998 }} Hook is a suburban area in south west London, England. It forms part of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and is located 13.5 miles (21.7 km) south west of Charing Cross. Neighbouring settlements are Hinchley Wood, Long Ditton, Surbiton, Tolworth and Chessington. Hook was a civil parish which formed part of the Surbiton Urban District of Surrey from 1895.〔(Vision of Britain ) - Hook civil parish ((historic map ))〕 The urban district became a municipal borough in 1936 and in 1965 its former area was transferred to Greater London. The former area of the Hook parish, together with that of the Chessington parish, form a protrusion of Greater London with the Surrey districts of Elmbridge to the west, Mole Valley to the south and Epsom and Ewell to the east. An RAF barrage balloon depot opened in Hook c. 1938 and was later known as RAF Chessington, latterly used as a hospital until demolished and redeveloped for housing in the 1990s. Hook forms part of the Chessington post town. ==Surviving old buildings== Only three listed buildings exist in the entire post town of Chessington, two of which are on Hook Road, just north of Chessington itself, on the east side. The first is at number 325: a 19th-century CE two-storey home featuring central doorway with moulded architrave and bracketed hood with fluted Ionic columns. The second, at number 435, is a two-storey house inscribed 1669 but with later alterations. It has two-part baffle- (or lobby-) entry, and has been refaced with brick but is probably timber-framed behind; its sides and back are weather-boarded and it has a steeply pitched, pantiled roof with central chimney.〔(National Heritage List Online edition accessed 2012-04-16 ).〕 Many former 18th- and 19th-century houses on this old Kingston-upon-Thames to Dorking and Horsham route have been redeveloped or were destroyed during World War II, including The Blitz, as shown in the street numbering. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hook, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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