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| 1699 |
| | | Grinling Gibbons begins work on carving decorative features and architectural mouldings in the King's Appartments at Hampton Court | |
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| 1699 |
| | | The Chestnut Avenue through Bushy Park is laid out for William III to a design by Sir Christopher Wren | |
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| 1700 |
| | | The Banqueting House at Hampton Court is built with carving by Grinling Gibbons and a painted interior which is the work, at least in part, of Antonio Verrio | |
|  | Ceiling of Queen Anne's Drawing Room, by Verrio
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| 1713 |
| | | Edward Proger dies in Bushy House at the age of 96 | |
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| 1713 |
| | | The Diana or Arethusa Fountain, decorated with bronze sculptures by Hubert Le Sueur, is placed in the centre of the round pond in Bushy Park | |
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| 1726 |
| | | North aisle of St Mary's Church is built, with vaults beneath, and school room (earlier building for Hampton School) and vestry room attached | |
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| 1753 |
| | | The first, highly decorative, Hampton Court Bridge with seven steep sided arches opens and replaces the ferry and the ford used in the drier season | |
|  | Design for the first Hampton Court Bridge in 1753
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| 1754 |
| | | David Garrick, famous Shakespearian actor, leases and then buys what was known as Hampton House, now Garrick's Villa, as a country retreat and place to entertain friends | |
|  | Garrick's Villa, in 1784
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| 1755-1756 |
| | | Garrick's Temple, designer unknown but possibly modelled on Lord Burlington's temple at Chiswick House, is built by David Garrick to entertain friends and house his Shakespeare mementos | |
|  | Garrick's Temple, in 1783
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| 1758 |
| | | Garrick commissions from Roubiliac a statue of Shakespeare for a large niche in the Temple at Hampton. The original is now in the British Museum and an exact is replica in Garrick's Temple | |
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