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| c. 1850 |
| | | Whitton Place is demolished and the grounds are rejoined with Whitton Park. | |
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| 1850 |
| | | The Kneller Hall Training School for the Teaching of Pauper and Criminal Children opens with Dr Frederick Temple as Principal. | |
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| 1851 |
| | | Lord and Lady Russell of Pembroke Lodge found the Russell School in Petersham | |
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| 1852 |
| | | The first Metropolis Water Act is passed which forbids the taking of water by the water companies from the tidal Thames and this leads to the establishment of what was to become Hampton Waterworks | |
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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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| 1852 |
| | | After the establishment of the Royal Botanical Gardens, a library and
herbarium is opened at Hunter’s House on north-west side of Kew Green. | |
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| 1854 |
| | | The Russian revolutionary and exile Alexander Herzen spends much of this year in St Helena Terrace before moving to Twickenham | |
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| 1855-61 |
| | | Frances restores and enlarges Strawberry Hill including the addition of the Waldegrave Drawing Room, spending in excess of £100,000. | |
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| 1855 |
| | | By 1855 the Southwark and Vauxhall, the Grand Junction and the West Middlesex Water Companies have all established works at Hampton and these are now collectively known as Hampton Waterworks | |
|  | The new Hampton Waterworks, in 1855
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