The company was established in 1806 with works at Hammersmith and became part of the publicly owned Metropolitan Water Board in 1904.
The West Middlesex Waterworks Company was founded by serial entrepreneur Ralph Dodd in 1806 to supply water to parts of West London, including Marylebone and Paddington, in the counties of Middlesex and Surrey from the River Thames.
[1] In 1808 the company installed cast iron pipes to supply water from its intakes at Hammersmith.
John Snow examined the state of waters in 1849 and noted that the West Middlesex was less subject to cholera because its intakes were upstream and it had large reservoirs.
[5] The company closed the Hammersmith site and new pumping works were established between Sunbury and Molesey Locks at Hampton.