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Cambridge Road
Kingston Adult Education Centre, ex-Norbiton
school. Later c 19, Gothic, with the name in a pattern of dark brick on the
gables.
Chatham Road
Site part of the
Norbiton Place estate
Chesham Road
Site part of the
Norbiton Place estate. Covered by area of great lake with grottoes, etc. at
north end was handsome stone bridge.
Clevedon Road
Site part of the
Norbiton Place estate
Cobham Road:
Site part of the
Norbiton Place estate. Covered by area of great lake with grotto at the north
end
Coombe Lane West
Coombe Lane Farm
on north side and Kingston Hospital on some of the land. Dickens sold some of
the land in 1837 for the hospital and the rest into the Duke of Cambridge who
kept it until 1932.
Coombe Road
Norbiton Station. 1869. Between New Maldon and
Kingston on South Western Trains. The Line came through Norbiton in 1865 on the
Kingston Wimbledon Railway between the Southampton Main Line at Malden and
Kingston. Thus Station was built in 1869 in the fields on Coombe Road. It
remains very nineteenth century – a large yellow brick house like that at
Teddington. In 1884 subway linking the platforms was built. The site was part
of the Norbiton Place estate.
Goods yard closed 1965
Line run through
Norbiton in 1865 between Southampton Main Line at Malden and Kingston. Station
built in 1869 in the fields on Coombe Road. Still there and still nineteenth
century 1884 subway linking the platforms built. Site part of the Norbiton
Place estate, on Kingston Wimbledon line 1869
Shiraz Mirza community hall in converted YMCA
building
Coombe Wood Golf Course
Gallows Tamkin.
The water from the Wolsey conduits was collected in lead pipes approximately
3" in diameter, its course to Hampton Court being punctured by
"tamkins", small brick buildings used for plugging off the supply if
repairs were required. An early eighteenth century map shows six tamkins, but
only one now remains above ground, on the Golf Course. It measures about 9'
0" by 6' 3" internally. Three of the walls are 14" thick but the
other with its entrance door is 3' 0" thick. The end walls have gables and
stone dressings. Five steps lead down to a sandy floor across which meanders a
little stream. All leadwork has disappeared. The building was restored more
than fifty years
Galsworthy Road
Kingston Hospital.. Victorian Hospital 1898.
Diamond Jubilee of 1878. Hospital on site of old workhouse which was built here
in the late 1830s on the fields of Coombelane Farm.. There was a tower for
water which was raised from the well by cranks which used labour of the inmates
via a treadmill. On the Kingston Zodia the Libra bird’s tail fans the
hospital. The infirmary becamne a
separate institute in 1902. Good
restaurant and stores by W. E. Tatton-Brown of the Ministry of Health and Richard
Mellor of the South-West Metropolitan Region Hospital Board, 1964-6.
Gynaecological now.
Manorgate Road
Office block
replacing factory for Direct Aerated Water Co.
Norbiton
Down market suburb of Kingston. Name means an outlying
farm or grange – both it and Surbiton were granges of Kingston. This was the
king’s estate by a ford on the river and its outlying farms were called
‘bartons’ . Norbiton, the 'north grange', which was separated from it by the
hill on which Berrylands Farm was sited. Both granges were dependencies of the
royal manor of Kingston
Norbiton. ‘Norberton’
1205, ‘Norbeton’ 1272, ‘Norbiton’ 1531, that is 'the northern grange or
outlying farm', from Old English ‘north’ and
‘bere-tiin’, so called in relation to Surbiton; both were granges of the
royal manor of Kingston. Norbiton Common, marked thus on the Ordnance Survey
map of 1876, was enclosed in 1808.
Norbiton Avenue
Site part of the
Norbiton Place estate.
Wolsey Close
Fields of
Coombelane Farm.
Tamkins Inspection Point for Wolsey conduit. Cardinal Wolsey built a conduit stretching
some three and a half miles from Kingston Hill and Coombe Hill to Hampton
Court, passing under Kingston and under the Thames. Three of the conduit houses
stand, and one of the intermediate inspection points - Tamkins, over- restored,
in the Coombe Wood Golf Course. Medicinal water just above Libra. Water piped to Hampton Court
Wolverton Avenue
Kingston named
after Lady Wolverton
13 The Elms, 55ft x 25ft garden owned by
'plantaholic'! Trees, shrubs, climbers, herbaceous and ground cover plants,
some rare. Pool, fruit trees and soft fruits.
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