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| 1846 April |
| | | Work begins on a station at Barnes, which is now the only survivor of the five original stations on the new railway line from Nine Elms to Richmond | |
|  | Barnes railway station, built in 1846-7
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| 1846 July22 |
| | | The first train on the new London and South Western Railway line from Nine Elms passes through Barnes on its way to a rapturous arrival in Richmond, with a brass band and church bells ringing | |
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| 1852 |
| | | The church of St Mary Magdalen in Mortlake, designed in Gothic style by Gilbert Blount, is completed | |
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| 1852 |
| | | The Mortlake brewery, after passing through several hands, is acquired by the Phillips family | |
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| 1857 |
| | | The old Cromwell House is demolished and a new one, designed by Robert Philip Pope, is completed by June 1858 | |
|  | Old Cromwell House, Mortlake
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| 1860s |
| | | Mortlake’s brewery becomes prosperous through contracts supplying beer (India Pale Ale) to the British army in India | |
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| 1869 |
| | | Extensive acquisition of neighbouring properties gives the Mortlake brewery a huge river frontage, and the success of the enterprise is commemorated in the façade of a new building | |
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| 1884 |
| | | Barn Elms becomes the home of the Ranelagh Club and is soon famous for its polo matches | |
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| 1889 |
| | | The Phillips family sells the Mortlake brewery to Watney’s | |
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| 1890 October 20 |
| | | The explorer and Arabist Richard Burton dies in the British consulate in Trieste | |
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