HAMMERSMITH, a western metropolitan borough of Lon don, England, bounded E. by Kensington and S. by Fulham and the river Thames, and extending N. and W. to the boundary of the county of London. Pop. (1931) 135,521. The name appears in the early forms of Hermodewode and Hamersmith; the deriva tion is probably from the Anglo-Saxon, signifying the place with a haven (hythe). Hammersmith is mentioned with Fulham as a winter camp of Danish invaders in 879, when they occupied the island of Hame, identified with Chiswick Eyot. Hammersmith consists of residential streets. Shepherd's Bush in the east is a populous and poor quarter. Boat-building yards, lead-mills, oil mills, distilleries, coach factories, motor works, and other in dustrial establishments are found in the borough. Old Hammer smith bridge, designed by Tierney Clark (1824), was the earliest suspension bridge erected near London, and was found insecure and replaced in 1884-87. Until 1834 Hammersmith formed part of Fulham parish. Its church of St. Paul was built as a chapel of ease to Fulham, and consecrated by Laud in 1631. The existing building dates from 189o. St. Paul's school, one of the principal public schools in England, was founded in or about 1509 by John Colet, dean of St. Paul's, under the shadow of the cathedral church. But it appears that Colet actually refounded and re organized a school which had been attached to the cathedral of St. Paul from very early times ; the first mention of such a school dates from the early part of the 12th century. The school was moved to its present site in Hammersmith road in 1883. The number of foundation scholars is 153, according to the number of fishes taken in the miraculous draught. The school governors are appointed by the Mercers' Company (by which body the new site was acquired), and the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London. There are, besides, the Edward Latymer foundation school for boys (1624), part of the income of which is devoted to general charitable purposes ; the Godolphin school, founded in the i6th century and remodelled as a grammar school in 186i, Nazareth House of Little Sisters of the Poor and other institu tions. At Shepherd's Bush are the grounds and buildings first oc cupied by the Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, including a sta dium for athletic displays. In the neighbourhood of the Mall, bordering the river, are the house where Thomson wrote his poem "The Seasons," and Kelmscott house, the residence of William Morris. The parliamentary borough of Hammersmith returns two members.