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Along with Castle Way, Moat Side, Queens Avenue, Queens Way, Seymour Gardens, Shakespeare Way and Raleigh Way, this is one of a number of nearby streets commemorating Hanworth Castle, a royal Tudor hunting lodge where Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603) spent part of her childhood and sometimes stayed during her reign. The street was laid out in the first half of the 20thCentury on the site of the original fortification, but before that existed as Queen Elizabeth’s Walk, a footpath separating the castle, with its moat, from its outlying buildings. After burning down the castle was rebuilt on its present day site, the now derelict Hanworth Park House, in 1797.
