Between the Ladbroke and Norland estates there extended northward from the Uxbridge Road a lane which provided access to the half-dozen fields between the northern boundary of the Norland estate and the southern boundary of Notting Barns Farm (later the St Quintin estate). In the eighteenth century this lane was known as Green’s Lane, perhaps …
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Walmer Road, W11
Walmer Road started as an established footpath called Greene’s Lane and appears as such on the 1800 map of the area. It connected the Uxbridge Road (Holland Park Avenue) with one of the only buildings north of this turnpike road – Notting Barns Farm.The soil was ideal for brickmaking and brickfields moved into the area …
1800: London W10
This map of the 1800 countryside in the area which covers today’s London W10 postcode has been compiled by The Underground Map from various sources. As its main source, the Milne map of London shows the landuse of fields and the routes of lanes. An 1834 map of Marylebone Parish provided field names up to …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: Notting Dale
Kensington Park Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone Bayswater end Before describing the streets to the east of the Hippodrome Estate, connecting Notting Hill with Bayswater and Paddington, it will be best to consider the growth of the district which has had such a disastrous effect on the development of the western borders …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: The Peaceful Hamlet of Notting Hill
The 1830s Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone Kensington Park At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the village of Kensington Gravel Pits extended for three-eighths of a mile along the North Highway. The name seems to have been used for scattered buildings as far east as Craven Terrace or Westbourne Green Lane, …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: During the Eighteen Thirties
The 18th century Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone Peaceful hamlet The first encroachment on the rural character of Notting Hill was the cutting of the Paddington Branch of the Grand Junction Canal. Several artificial waterways had already been constructed among the manufacturing towns in the north of England, and the canal system …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: In the Eighteenth Century
Gravel Pits Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone The 1830s The commencement of the village of Kensington Gravel Pits has already been described. Under present conditions it is difficult to realize how countrified the place remained during the whole of the eighteenth century. In Kip’s Britannia Illustrata, published in 1714, there is a …
Notting Hill in Bygone Days: Chenesitun and Knotting Barns
Table of contents Notting Hill in Bygone Days by Florence Gladstone Gravel Pits On the north side of the Thames as it crosses London there is a range of low hills. Beginning with Tower Hill close to the river, the range ends with Campden Hill, three-quarters of a mile from its bank. Each hill is …
Daw’s map of Kensington (1852)
From Daw’s map of Kensington, published in 1852, shows the streets of Notting Dale (left) and Notting Hill (right) are beginning to be built.
Notting Hill in Bygone Days
Here’s a scan of the the seminal 1920s book about W10 and W11 history (now out of print): Florence Gladstone’s “Notting Hill in Bygone Days”. Each chapter is available here by following the links. P.S. Passing thanks to the big scanner at the Kensington main library which Dave Walker who does The Library Time Machine …