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Hyde Park Gate is a street in Central London, England, which applies to two parallel roads in Kensington on the southern boundary of Kensington Gardens. These two roads run south, perpendicular to Kensington Road, but the name Hyde Park Gate also applies to the houses on the south side of that road between Queen's Gate and De Vere Gardens. [1]
- Chapter III - Hyde Park Gate, Kensington Gate and Palace Gate
- The Campden Charities: Butt's Field Estate
- Nos. 5–37 Hyde Park Gate: Hanson's Development
This chapter describes the group of streets in thenorth-west corner of the area covered by this volume (fig. 9), the names ofwhich recall the nearby entrances into Hyde Park and the grounds of KensingtonPalace, and the existence until c. 1864 of the toll gatefor travellers between Knightsbridge and Kensington (Plate 79e). By 1811 the land here was ...
The Campden Charities were created in the seventeenthcentury by the wills of Sir Baptist Hicks, first Viscount Campden, and his wifeElizabeth, for the benefit of the poor of the parish of Kensington. On hisdeath in 1629 Viscount Campden had left £200 on trust for this purpose,and in 1635 his trustees bought a sixteen-acre estate near Shepherd's Bus...
In 1833 Joshua Flesher Hanson, described as aschoolmaster, who speculated extensively in land and property, purchased thethree-and-a-half-acre field to the east of the Campden Charities' estate. Hehad previously been responsible for Regency Square in Brighton, which was begunin 1818, and in the mid 1820's he had moved to Kensington, where he undert...
Aug 16, 2014 · Virginia Woolf's childhood home and plaque. Photos from the excellent London Remembers website. Her childhood home at 22 Hyde Park Gate in Kensington still survives just a stone’s throw from the ...
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Apr 28, 2023 · Other Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens attractions ... Apsley Gate: What looks like a grand entrance to Hyde Park was designed by a 25-year-old Decimus Burton (he also came up with the Palm House ...
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22 Hyde Park Gate, Kensington This was Virginia Woolf’s childhood home. Born Adeline Virginia Stephen in 1882, she lived here with her parents Julia Prinsep Duckworth Stephen – a philanthropist and Pre-Raphaelite model, and Sir Leslie Stephen – a celebrated critic and author.
Hyde Park Gate is a street in Central London, England, which applies to two parallel roads in Kensington on the southern boundary of Kensington Gardens. These two roads run south, perpendicular to Kensington Road, but the name Hyde Park Gate also applies to the houses on the south side of that road between Queen's Gate and De Vere Gardens.
1000814. Hyde Park is a 350 acres (140 ha), historic Grade I-listed urban park in Westminster, Greater London. A Royal Park, it is the largest of the parks and green spaces that form a chain from Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park, past Buckingham Palace to St James's Park.
