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Named after Spring Grove, which used to stand in Queen’s Road overlooking Pesthouse Common, described in Bygone Richmond as “a good Georgian house, built in the early part of the eighteenth century by the Marquis of Lothian”. It became the property of Sir Charles Rugge-Price, whose father also called Charles was an Alderman described in City Biography as, “A wholesale oil-man, and a most respectable character… He married a Mrs Rugg, a widow with a large fortune, and the widow was satisfied; for, on being asked immediately after marriage how she liked it, ‘Very well, (said she;) I sold my old Rugg for a good Price.'” The name is thought to be on account of the streams that used to flow down the hill. The house was demolished and the whole estate was redeveloped between the wars.
