Place Name West Hall is at least as old as Kew. Originally part of the extensive manor of Mortlake it…
Place Name Given its position running from town to the River Thames the name should come as no surprise. There’s…
Place Name Part of the Twiggets area development of Kew Green after the 1823 Enclosure Act had allocated the land…
Place Name Horatio (better known as Horace) Walpole (September 24, 1717 – March 2, 1797) the 4th Earl of Orford, was…
Place Name There are three contenders for this road’s name – but they were all related. The first was the…
Place Name So named after its proximity to The Vineyard. This runs alongside the old burial ground which was consecrated…
Place Name H M Cundall in Bygone Richmond baldly states: “Both in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries fruit was largely…
Place Name Laid out on the Selwyn estate and featured in the Richmond and Twickenham Times Almanack of 1882 as…
Place Name James Green, Judith Filson, and Margaret Watson in The Streets of Richmond and Kew suggest this street first…
PLACE NAME This well-established street was renamed in the mid-20thCentury after the English courtier and politician Mountjoy Blount (about 1597 –…