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| 1838 |
| | | The Public Records Act creates the Public Record Office with headquarters in existing buildings on the Rolls Estate in Chancery Lane, in the City of London | |
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| 1839 |
| | | Charles Dickens rents Elm Cottage (later Elm Lodge) in Petersham, while working on Nicholas Nickleby | |
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| 1840 |
| | | Strawberry Hill passes through the Waldegrave family to John, who marries Frances Braham in 1839, and on his early death to his brother George, the seventh Earl, who marries his brother's widow. | |
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| 1840 |
| | | St Peter’s, in Petersham, is almost doubled in size, with new galleries and a much enlarged south transept | |
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| c. 1840 |
| | | Four new boathouses are built by Richmond Bridge, to be occupied chiefly by the watermen families of the Chittys, the Peasleys and the Wheelers, for boat-hiring and boatbuilding. | |
|  | Richmond Bridge Boathouses, before 1859
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| 1841-51 |
| | | Sir William Hooker, the first Director of Kew Gardens, rents Brick Farm and re-names it West Park | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The seventh Earl is heavily in debt and sells off the contents of Strawberry Hill. 'The Great Sale' starts on 25 April 1842 and last for 32 days raising over £33,000. | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Thomas Young, a tea merchant, builds a new house on the site of the original Pope's Villa. | |
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| c. 1844 |
| | | Richard Turner wins the government contract to build a great new glasshouse in Kew Gardens, the Palm House, with Decimus Burton acting as architectural consultant. | |
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| 1844 |
| | | Dr Weiss, soon to be followed by Dr Ellis, establishes a hydropathy clinic at Sudbrook Park, which runs for twenty years despite accusations of manslaughter when patients die following the cold water-treatment | |
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