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| 1789 |
| | | Robert Tunstall builds a replacement stone bridge at Kew, designed by James Paine. It is opened by King George III driving over ‘with a great concourse of carriages’ | |
|  | The second Kew Bridge under construction
Chiswick Local Studies Library
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| 1791 |
| | | After centuries as a chapel of Kingston, and 22 years in which it shared a parish with Kew, St Peter’s is established as a parish in its own right. | |
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| 1793 |
| | | Lord Buckingham dies and the Marble Hill estate passes to Lady Suffolk's great niece Henrietta Hotham. She lives in the house briefly and then rents it out, living some of the time in Little Marble Hill, a house built in the grounds. | |
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| 1796 |
| | | York House has various owners and tenants, being bought by Count, later Prince, Starhemberg, Austrian Ambassador who instals a private chapel. | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Horace Walpole dies and the Strawberry Hill estate is left to his niece, Anne Seymour Damer, a well-known sculptress, for her lifetime. | |
|  | Strawberry Hill, aquatint 1793
Richmond Local Studies
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| 1797 |
| | | The king's son, William, Duke of Clarence, becomes Keeper (or Ranger) of Bushy Park and establishes his mistress, the actress Dora Jordan, in Bushy House | |
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| 1797 |
| | | George Gostling II inherits Whitton Park and commisions Humphrey Repton to landscape the grounds. | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Dora gives birth in Bushy House to Mary, the first of seven children of the Duke of Clarence to be born in the house in the following nine years | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Captain George Vancouver, who discovered Vancouver Island and retired to live in Petersham, is buried in St Peter’s | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The Queen’s Head pub is built in the orchard of John Dee’s house | |
|  | The Queen's Head in Mortlake
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