fountain in red granite, and a short riverside footpath beside the start of Grove Park Road. Notable residents Strand-on-the-Green has been home to a variety of distinguished people over the centuries, including the Earl of Grantham, who purchased Grove House in 1745, the actress Eileen Atkins, and the novelist Margaret Kennedy, who set her bestselling 1924 work The Constant Nymph there. The author Nancy Mitford wrote the 1945 novel The Pursuit of Love when she lived in Rose Cottage. The film director John Guillermin lived at No. 60 (The Dutch House). The newspaper publisher Sir Hugh Cudlipp, and the botanist and explorer of Australia Allan Cunningham have both lived at No. 21. The painter and gallerist Joshua Compston lived at No. 75. Johan Zoffany RA (1733–1810), a German neoclassical painter lived (and died) at no. 65. See also Chiswick High Road – the relocated commercial centre of Chiswick Chiswick Mall – another historic riverside street in Chiswick References Further reading Districts of the London Borough of Hounslow Districts of London on the River Thames Areas of London Chiswick Places formerly in Middlesex