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Watcombe Cottages, TW9

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Place Name Part of the Twiggets area development of Kew Green after the 1823 Enclosure Act had allocated the land…

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Walpole Avenue, TW9

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Place Name Horatio (better known as Horace) Walpole (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797) the 4th Earl of Orford, was…

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Wakefield Road, TW10

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Place Name There are three contenders for this road’s name – but they were all related. The first was the…

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Vineyard Passage, TW10

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Place Name So named after its proximity to The Vineyard. This runs alongside the old burial ground which was consecrated…

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The Vineyard, TW10

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Place Name H M Cundall in Bygone Richmond baldly states: “Both in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries fruit was largely…

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Victoria Cottages, TW9

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Place Name Laid out on the Selwyn estate and featured in the Richmond and Twickenham Times Almanack of 1882 as…

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Union Court, TW9

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Place Name James Green, Judith Filson, and Margaret Watson in The Streets of Richmond and Kew suggest this street first…

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Newport Place, WC2H

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PLACE NAME This well-established street was renamed in the mid-20thCentury after the English courtier and politician Mountjoy Blount (about 1597 –…

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Twickenham Road, TW9

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Place Name Directional, this is the road that leads to Twickenham. The road itself was built between 1930 and 1933…

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Trinity Road, TW9

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Place Name The new parish of Holy Trinity was created in 1870 to administer to the pastoral needs of the…

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