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Unlike King Street this is not named after a specific monarch. It was laid out as a sister road to neighbouring Queen’s Road, which was named after Victoria. James Green, Judith Filson, and Margaret Watson write in The Streets of Richmond and Kew: “It was shown without a name in the 1865/8 OS; a contemporary auction catalogue shows its proposed development, and the 1870 rate books list 4 houses, pastures, and St James’s Villas (near St Matthias church). By 1890 the road had many large houses on the its east side – Kingsbury, Dunottar, Abercorn (demolished 1932), Belgrave, Harland, Malabar, Audley, Park, Nithdale, Denmark, Faircroft, Holy Trinity Vicarage and Charmouth Lodge, the latter being pulled down in the 1950s.”
