Text search
Related images
HistoryWorld
Link
Map Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
| |
| | | | | | |
|
| 1327 |
| | The fishery at ‘Kaiho-juxta-Braynford’, which may be the origin of Kew Pond, first appears in the accounts of St Swithin’s Priory at Winchester | |
| |
|
| c. 1500 |
| | The manor of East Sheen and West Hall is carved out of the manor of Mortlake, including all that part of Kew that now lies between the river, the A316 and the District railway | |
| |
|
| 15001650 |
| | A number of noblemen and wealthy merchants build their villas around Kew Green, including Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester, closely associated with Queen Elizabeth I. The only villa to survive from this period is the present Kew Palace built in the Dutch style
for Samuel Fortrey. | |
| |
|
| 1530 |
| | King Henry VIII’s barge moors in the creek leading from the River Thames to Kew Pond | |
| |
|
| c. 1631 |
| | Samuel Fortrey builds a house with gables, in the Dutch style, in what is now Kew Gardens. | |
| |
|
| c. 1675 |
| | The house of West Hall is built for let, probably by Thomas Juxon, lord of the manor, to be followed by the house of Brick Farm | |
| |
|
| | | | |
|