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Britannia Lane

1 Narrow 180ft organic garden maintained by staff  and people with learning disabilities whose day centre occupies the remainder of the site. The cottage- style  planting has produced a mass of colour and scent with a lavender and fnchsia bed, mixed borders, butterfly garden, wildlife pond and a raised bed of shrubs and roses.

Cole Park

Private estate. Thomas Cole has a brewery here in the 17th. In the mid 1890s George Cole  sold the brewery to clear his debts. Built this estate to what were then very modern standards plus landscaped areas along the Crane. Cole died in 1910 and the family continued to direct the scheme and to some extent continue to do so.likeColes Bridge which is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1816 it is to be associated with a local family called Co(o)le recorded in the 17th century.

Riskins

Kneller Road

St.Philip & St.James, 1862 by F. H. Pownall, small and clumsily picturesque, with a bell-turret. Kentish rag outside, yellow and red brick inside. Aisle and chapel. Sculpture c 15 carved alabaster panel, 2 ft high, of Christ with symbols of the Passion, found near Valle Crucis Abbey, Wales, and given in 1913. Stained glass windows by Clayton & Bell, 1862 window by C. E. Kempe, 1892.

Kneller Hall palatial mansion. An extraordinary affair which has replaced the villa called Whitton House which Kneller, the painter, built for himself in 1709-11.  He died here in 1723. He may have designed it himself or may have been Wren. The house, enlarged by two wings by Philip Hardwick, became a teacher training college in 1847. What we now see is a vast neo-Jacobean pile with a frontispiece with two turrets, and in front of them an arcaded stone screen linking the projecting wings. The date is 1848, the architect George Mair. The walls of Hardwick's wings were incorporated, but Kneller's original house was demolished.  Small Museum not open to the public. GWR train plate on the gate from locomotive 'Kneller Hall'.  On martial ram. Old moat in the grounds. Since 1856 it has been the Royal Military School of Music, where the bands of the British Army have been trained.

121 White Hart

Kneller Gardens. Crane meets the Duke of Northumberland’s river here.

Murray Gardens

Argyll House.  Lots of nice gardens, which are open. Lots of statues, ruins etc from the big houses which were there. Marks part of the grounds of Whitton Park demolished c. 1847, built for the Earl of Hay by Roger Morris, with additions by Gibbs, and later altered by Chambers for himself.

Whitton Park,

Built by Earl of Murray, Van Gogh plaque Improved by Humphrey Repton

Twickenham,

War between rugby heroes. Tiw is a name for Mars

New parish with church on green

Furrow's Twickenham Brewery

Whitton Station

Line opened from Barnes 1883. Always local traffic and through trains and the District. Built in the 1930s when the area was opened up by building. Previously a hamlet.


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