Place Name First referred to as Elizabeth Road in the 1870 rate books. Elizabeth was a favourite family name of…
Place Name Like many of the local names around Richmond this is connected to wealthy Selwyn family. Frances Townshend (February 20,…
Place Name Agricultural heritage. Not a reference to the Bedfordshire market town but an ancient field name – although there…
Place Name Originally called New Richmond Place, when it was laid out in 1838, its name was changed by Richmond…
Place Name There have over the course of the centuries been so many dukes living in Richmond and Kew on…
Place Name John Dudley (1504 – August 22, 1553) 1st Duke of Northumberland who was a general, admiral, and politician, and…
Place Name Some of the last fields to be developed around Richmond belonged to the Rugge-Price estate. Sir Charles Price…
PLACE NAME The heart of today’s Chinatown was in the early 17thCentury a walled exercise ground for enthusiastic amateur soldiers.…
Place Name Site of Whitehall Palace, the riverside Palace of the English kings from Henry VIII to William III, which…
Place Name Daniel Defoe (1660 – April 24, 1731) the celebrated author of Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719 and regarded…