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| 1802 |
| | | The family of John Henry Newman (later Cardinal Newman) move to Grove House (now Grey Court House), where they stay for five years | |
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| 1802 |
| | | King George III has the White House at Kew demolished and instructs James Wyatt to build a castellated palace by the river, which was never completed. | |
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| c. 1803 |
| | | James Brewer doubles the site and establishes the Star and Garter as a major hotel | |
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| 1807 |
| | | J M W Turner, the artist, buys a plot of land in Twickenham. The site is bounded by what are now Sandycombe Road and St Margaret's Road. Turner also buys a separate plot nearby. | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Baroness Howe acquires Pope's Villa. | |
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| 1808 |
| | | Baroness Howe demolishes Pope's Villa, earning herself the sobriquet Queen of the Goths, and builds a new house next door. The demolition is recorded by J M W Turner in his painting 'Pope's Villa at Twickenham'. | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Mrs Daymer finds Strawberry Hill too expensive to keep up and relinquishes the estate to the eventual heir, Laura Countess of Waldegrave, the grand-daughter of Horace Walpole's brother Edward. | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) is buried in St Anne's churchyard in Kew. | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Mortlake’s two small breweries merge as a single business | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Dora Jordan is forced to leave Bushy House after being abandoned by her royal lover, the Duke of Clarence | |
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