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Albermarle
Gardens
Laid out on land
of Norbiton Park Farm
Beresford Road:
Ex Norbiton
Common farm land
Combe wood
Golf course huge
amount of private open space
Dickerage Lane
Dickerage Farm at
its northern end
Mount Primary School
Dunbar Road
Ex Norbiton
Common Farm land
Elm Avenue:
Bought by
National Freehold Land Society planted with trees no facilities 1850s.
Kingston Road
St.Joseph's . R.C
1922-35 by Osmund Bentley, altered and completed by Adrian Gilbert Scott.
Conventional Gothic. brick
Norbiton Park
Farm site. Owned by Roupell, MP for Lambeth, who sold it illegally and had to
run away. Mr. Waite renamed it Waitelands. Waite tried to get a railway through
and failed. Farm bought by London and Suburban Land Co. Farmhouse there in 20th
171 Duke of
Wellington
Archdale Place. Housing on
site of old school buildings
Norbiton Common
Was once a separate parish where seven acres were put
aside in 1697 for the poor to grow flax.
The 320 acre common was enclosed in 1808 and became small farms and
small holdings.
Ornia Road
Ex Norbiton
Common Farm land
Poplar Grove:
Bought by
National Freehold Land Society planted with trees no facilities 1850s
Potters Grove:
Site of
brickworks, became a sewage works
Railway Line
Line from London – the diversion of this line in the 1830s
away from Kingston neccessited a long embankment across Norbiton Common
South Lane:
Used to be Sow
Lane
Springfield Hospital. Site of Kingston Workhouse
which was once Kingston Union Farm ex Norbiton Common Farm
Thorne Road:
Ex Norbiton
Common Farm land
Warwick Road
Dickerage Lane.
Site of brickfields
Warren Road
The Watergardens, Japanese landscaped
garden originally part of Coombe Wood Nursery, approx 9 acres with water
cascade features.
Westbury Road
Laid out by
London and Suburban Land Co 1880s.
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