Campden Hill Square was laid out by Joshua Flesher Hanson in 1826. Gates and most of the railings around the central garden are original but building sites were let or sold piecemeal. The first house occupied was no.2 in 1828; the other early houses which remain were completed at various dates up to 1842.
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
W8, Campden Hill Square
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Campden Hill Square
Developer and builder. British History Online says that in 1823 he bought "ov...
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Campden Hill Square
The borough was formed in 1965 by the merging of the separate former boroughs...
"Entensive" seems to be a portmanteau (mash-up) of "extensive" and "intensive".
Author of "Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family" Elizabeth Rundle Charles lived here 1874 - 1896
The Harvard plaque does not explain why it is here, on this particular spot. Possibly his father's butcher's shop was here. The Anti-fas...
The AAGBI's website provides: "On 19 December 1846, Francis Boott, an American botanist who had heard the news from Boston, watched denta...
We believe that the crown and the 'B' are indicative of the Bedford Estates and that the date commemorates the royal silver wedding as we...
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