Chiswick is an area of London that has many different parts. There is the busting high street full of shops, restaurants and bars running west from Hammersmith, with Chiswick Back Common at its heart, and there is a more historic area, a hidden gem, alongside the River Thames north of Chiswick House and Garden. Here is St Nicholas's Church and graveyard. The most notable tomb in the graveyard is that of the painter William Hogarth, whose house remains nearby, and his sister Anne, erected in 1771.