74-681: Vincent Square is a grass-covered square in Westminster , London, England. It is London's largest privately-owned square, covering 13 acres, lined with mature trees including London Planes . In among a network of backstreets, it chiefly provides playing fields for Westminster School , who own it absolutely ; otherwise, it functions as a green lung and a view for the homes, hotel and other organisations adjoining. Nine of its adjoining buildings have been given strict statutory architectural recognition and protection. The Liberal Democrat Headquarters , housing one of Parliament's three largest political parties,
148-522: A Square many of which have become small public parks. A diversity of descriptive names features in the list of London's "garden squares" . "Square" is a generic term for neat, planned or set aside urban open spaces larger than a verge or pavement overlooked by buildings. In London, elements of fields were set aside, a fact reflected in the name of the square London Fields and two later examples: Coram's Fields and Lincoln's Inn Fields . Some are not actually square, or even rectangular. One reason for this
222-544: A court record during Henry VIII 's reign that "the manor called Notingbarons, alias Kensington, in the parish of Paddington, was held of the Abbot of Westminster." For years, it was thought to be a link with Canute, but it is now thought likely that the "Nott" section of the name is derived from the Saxon personal name Cnotta, with the "ing" part generally accepted as coming from the Saxon for
296-521: A down-at-heel area of cheap lodgings, epitomised by the racketeering landlord Peter Rachman and the murders committed by John Christie in 10 Rillington Place, since demolished. The area to the north east, Golborne, was particularly known for being, in the words of Charles Booth , "one of the worst areas in London". Southam Street in Kensal Green had 2,400 people living in 140 nine-roomed houses in 1923, and
370-518: A focal area have become a resurgent planning design, reflected for instance in Times Square, Sutton and Canada Square , Canary Wharf . Since 1998 many private squares (which term in that context takes in many other shapes of gardens between houses) temporarily open to the paying public: London's "Open Garden Squares Weekend", founded by Caroline Aldiss, takes place on the second weekend in June. The event
444-476: A group or settlement of people. The area in the west around Pottery Lane was used in the early 19th century for making bricks and tiles out of the heavy clay dug in the area. The clay was shaped and fired in a series of brick and tile kilns. The only remaining 19th-century tile kiln in London is on Walmer Road. In the same area, pig farmers moved in after being forced out of the Marble Arch area. Avondale Park
518-723: A large indoor antiques market, was replaced by the high-street chain AllSaints . Reflecting the increasing demise of one of the most culturally vibrant parts of central London , the 2011 Census showed that in the borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in which Notting Hill is situated, the number of Black or Black British and White Irish residents, two of the traditionally largest ethnic minority groups in Notting Hill, declined by 46 and 28 percent respectively in ten years. The district adjoins two large public parks, Holland Park and Kensington Gardens , with Hyde Park within 1 mile (1.6 km) to
592-494: A mob of 300 to 400 white people, including many " Teddy Boys ", were seen on Bramley Road attacking the houses of West Indian residents. The disturbances, racially-motivated rioting and attacks continued every night until they petered out by 5 September. The dire housing conditions in Notting Hill led Bruce Kenrick to found the Notting Hill Housing Trust in 1963, helping to drive through new housing legislation in
666-451: A secluded communal garden in the rear, to which people on the street did not have access and generally could not see. To this day these communal garden squares continue to provide the area with much of its attraction for the wealthiest householders. In 1837 the Hippodrome racecourse was laid out. The racecourse ran around the hill, and bystanders were expected to watch from the summit of
740-753: A table at the end of this section. Approximate area, in square metres, includes hardscapes and roads. London's squares are arranged by postcode, see the map below of postcodes. Renamed squares note: These two 19th century built Squares are officially renamed as shown. This avoids confusion with other squares in London. (the London Boroughs of Hillingdon, Hounslow and Ealing, exc. Harefield, Isleworth and Feltham) Royal/London Boroughs of Kingston upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames and Wandsworth, excluding Battersea, Norwood, Clapham and Balham. Royal/London Boroughs of Greenwich, Lewisham, Bexley and Bromley (plus Norwood and Dulwich) Notting Hill Notting Hill
814-578: A theme of a film the next year, by Fritz Lang ., Man Hunt . In the 1956 song "Why Can't The English?" from the musical My Fair Lady , Professor Henry Higgins laments, "Hear them down in Soho Square/Dropping H's everywhere." Drama most notably includes the high-audience soap opera broadcast by the BBC running since 1985, EastEnders based on a semi-permanent set north of London's border, Albert Square . It had pre-release titles Square Dance, Round
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#1732852316478888-448: A turn-back facility will have to be built in the area anyway. Siting it at Kensal Green, rather than next to Paddington itself, would provide a new station to regenerate the area. Among the general public there is a huge amount of support for the project and the then-Mayor Boris Johnson stated that a station would be added if it did not increase Crossrail 's overall cost; in response, Kensington & Chelsea Council agreed to underwrite
962-526: A viaduct, calling at Westbourne Park , Ladbroke Grove and Latimer Road respectively, before reaching Shepherds Bush to the west. The Bakerloo line skirts the North East corner running from Warwick Avenue station to Paddington . At a site just to the east of the Old Oak Common site, Kensington & Chelsea Council has been pushing for a station at Kensal Green off Ladbroke Grove and Canal Way, as
1036-708: A visible rectangular open space) that include alternative, higher built density, square features to their design—such as a courtyard or a square footprint. Some squares such as Granary Square are paved; others like Russell Square have grass and trees; many others have diverse communal gardens . Most of those that are actually square have the word in their name, and these are listed below. Others more flexibly identified do not. Such notable lists are commonly identified as list of garden squares or estate gardens , communal gardens , formal gardens , about which many books have been written. Increasingly, spaces are being constructed that are legally private, though in practice open to
1110-612: Is a lens (pointed oval), The Boltons . Toward the public end of the public/private continuum, London's growth has taken in village greens . A minority of these partly or wholly survive such as Newington Green to form council-run open spaces breaking up housing, road networks and/or retail streets. The categories of greens and garden squares become more well-visited where larger than an informal scale. These are mainly government-run, characteristic parks and open spaces in London . By subtle distinction their less urban equivalent amounts to London's 26 commons most of which were diminished in
1184-842: Is a district of West London , England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea . Notting Hill is known for being a cosmopolitan and multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting Hill Carnival and the Portobello Road Market. From around 1870, Notting Hill had an association with artists. For much of the 20th century, the large houses were subdivided into multi-occupancy rentals. Continental Europeans , Caribbeans (both African Caribbeans , Indian Caribbeans , and White Caribbeans ), Africans , Indians , Arabs , Asians , Jewish , Central Americans , South Americans , Pacific Islanders , Irish , Northern Irish , Scottish , Welsh , and other immigrants were drawn to
1258-572: Is a major international exponent, known as garden squares . London's largest privately-owned square is Vincent Square , in Westminster , which comprises 13 acres. A few in the capital of the United Kingdom , such as Trafalgar Square , began as public open spaces in the same way as other city squares worldwide, typically a plaza , piazza and a platz in Spain, Italy and Germany. Most, however, began as garden squares i.e. private communal gardens for
1332-459: Is a murder novel set in the past and present - featuring Notting Dale. The area's newer, wealthy residents are satirised in Rachel Johnson 's novel Notting Hell (2006) set in grand houses surrounding a fictional communal garden. Sam Selvon 's 1956 novel The Lonely Londoners set in Notting Hill portrays the lives of Caribbean immigrants making their way in post-World War II London. The area
1406-416: Is also the setting of the films: The Knack …and How to Get It (1965), Performance (1970) featuring Mick Jagger , Lava (2001), and Paddington (2014). Notting Hill serves as the locale for the 1999 romantic comedy Notting Hill , starring Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant . A film set in the same streets but showing a different story of the area is Pressure (1976), by Horace Ové , examining
1480-399: Is based at 1 Vincent Square. It was appropriated in the 18th century on land originally known as Tothill Fields , by William Vincent , a former Dean of Westminster and headmaster of Westminster School who simply paid a man with a horse and plough to enclose the square with a mound and ditch. Previous uses include a death camp and cemetery for 1,200 Scottish prisoners starved to death after
1554-429: Is considered the major neighbourhood of Notting Hill, but Kensal Green , Latimer Road and Westbourne Park are also part of Notting Hill; though estate agents differentiate North Kensington and Notting Hill as distinct areas with Westbourne considered part of Notting Hill and Kensal considered part of North Kensington. Locally the areas of Portobello , North Kensington , Kensal are referred to as Ladbroke Grove,
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#17328523164781628-403: Is made up of mainly residential roads with Westbourne Park Road running through the entire area to the east of Notting Hill. The Westbourne Green section of Notting Hill comes under Westminster City Council. The Notting Hill Carnival also passes through Westbourne Green up Chepstow Road and turns right onto Westbourne Grove. Kensal Green is in the north of Notting Hill. It is the area north of
1702-537: Is now home to a vibrant community, mainly Mediterranean Spanish and Moroccan, together with Portuguese. By the 1980s, single-occupation houses began to return to favour with families who could afford to occupy them, and because of the open spaces and stylish architecture Notting Hill is today one of London's most desirable areas. Several parts of Notting Hill are characterised by handsome stucco-fronted pillar-porched houses, often with private gardens, notably around Pembridge Place and Dawson Place and streets radiating from
1776-631: Is organised by the London Parks and Garden Trust . In 2013 over 200 gardens took part, including the garden of the prime minister at 10 Downing Street and the Gardens of HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs . Other events in keynote squares coincide such as a World Archaeology Festival, Gordon Square , Bloomsbury run by UCL Institute of Archaeology . The parks can be categorised as public garden squares, private garden squares or other squares. The local proliferation relative to other UK cities coupled with, since
1850-529: Is the use of a local nickname for the street, park or garden in question. Another is that some older squares were irregularly shaped to begin with, or lost their original layout due to the city's many transformations, not least following the Great Fire of London and The Blitz . The street naming (or streetnaming) authority of each London Borough and the City of London Corporation , by authority of an act of Parliament,
1924-598: The Battle of Worcester in 1651, a large burial pit for victims of the Great Plague of London in 1665/6, a jail named Tothill Fields Bridewell , and a well-known bear-baiting den recorded in the reign of Queen Anne . The space, facing buildings and certain others surrounding form the Vincent Square Conservation Area . The square contains a cricket pavilion, four football pitches, about 10 tennis courts, and
1998-609: The London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939 ( 2 & 3 Geo. 6 . c. xcvii), imposes rules to authorise appropriate street names for new developments and for owners wishing to rename features. Commercial building and retained historic names apart, new residential squares must in many boroughs be "for a square only" — considered not well elongated but rectangular and to some extent open. Billiter Square, EC3 and Millennium Square, SE1 in districts dominated by retail, commerce and offices are among many modern buildings (not beside
2072-474: The Notting Hill Carnival started and where most of the scenes in the film, Notting Hill were shot. The area's main transport hub, Ladbroke Grove tube station , was called Notting Hill from its opening in 1864 until 1919. The name was changed then to avoid confusion with the new Notting Hill Gate station . Ladbroke Grove is the area's main thoroughfare. Estate agents now call the super-rich area to
2146-464: The 1960s and found the national housing organisation Shelter in 1966. Nos 1–9 Colville Gardens, now known as Pinehurst Court , had become so run down by 1969 that its owner, Robert Gubay of Cledro Developments, described conditions in the buildings as "truly terrible". The slums were cleared during redevelopment in the 1960s and 1970s when the Westway Flyover and Trellick Tower were built. It
2220-658: The 19th century. As late as 1870, even after the hamlet had become a London suburb, Notting Hill was still popularly referred to as being in Middlesex rather than in London. The origin of the name "Notting Hill" is uncertain though an early version appears in the Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull, while an 1878 text, Old and New London, reports that the name derives from a manor in Kensington called "Knotting-Bernes", "Knutting-Barnes", or "Nutting-barns", and goes on to quote from
2294-628: The 2019 general election. Ladbroke Grove is a road running down the west side of Notting Hill, stretching up to Kensal Green , straddling the W10 and W11 postal districts , and also the name of the immediate area surrounding the road. Ladbroke Grove tube station is on the road where it is crossed by the Westway . A turnpike gate was constructed at the foot of the hill on the main road from London to Uxbridge, now Oxford Street , Bayswater Road and Holland Park Avenue along this part of its route. The point at which
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2368-514: The Circle (main section) and District lines (Edgware road branch), and Holland Park to the west. The northern half of Notting Hill, comprising various sub districts such as Kensal Green, Ladbroke Grove and North Kensington is served by the western branch of the Circle line, as it shares tracks with the Hammersmith & City line west of Paddington. These lines run through Notting Hill predominantly on
2442-575: The Ladbroke Estate. Working with the architect and surveyor Thomas Allason , Ladbroke began to lay out streets and houses, with a view to turning the area into a fashionable suburb of the capital (although the development did not get seriously under way until the 1840s). Many of these streets bear the Ladbroke name, including Ladbroke Grove , the area's main north–south axis, and Ladbroke Square , London's largest private garden square . The original idea
2516-697: The London Development Agency on the 2002 Carnival estimated that the event contributes around £93 million to the London and UK economy . Notting Hill provides the setting for novels by G. K. Chesterton ( The Napoleon of Notting Hill ), Colin MacInnes ( Absolute Beginners ), Michael Moorcock (the Jerry Cornelius quartet), R. C. Sherriff ( The Hopkins Manuscript ), and Alan Hollinghurst ( The Line of Beauty ). Dan Waddel's The Blood Detective
2590-595: The Moon also includes a song named after that square. This list comprises places bearing the word Square . The tables state if each has an open-air space exceeding a double-size pavement or the provision of parking spaces. Those marked mainly (due to a building, typically a church, school or community hall in the space) or yes have a clear, open space. Those marked No include streets of any shape including those with vestigial names (throwbacks) to open spaces that lay there (or adjacent) before. Demolished squares are listed in
2664-560: The Square, Round the Houses, London Pride and East 8 . Soho Square garden contains a bench that commemorates the singer Kirsty MacColl , who wrote the song "Soho Square" for her album Titanic Days . After her death in 2000, fans bought a memorial bench in her honour, inscribing the lyrics: "One day I'll be waiting there / No empty bench in Soho Square". The Lindisfarne album Elvis Lives On
2738-662: The abundance of photogenic restaurants and pastel-coloured houses. Along with the majority of west and northwest London, Notting Hill is heavily served by the London Underground . Five lines serve the area, two deep level tubes, the Central and Bakerloo lines , with three sub-surface lines, the Hammersmith & City , Circle and District lines . Firstly, the Central line crosses the area on an east–west axis, with stations at Notting Hill Gate , which also provides an interchange with
2812-560: The area in the 1950s and 1960s, partly because of the cheap rents, but were exploited by slum landlords like Peter Rachman and also became the target of white Teddy Boys in the 1958 Notting Hill race riots . By the early 21st century, after decades of gentrification , Notting Hill had gained a reputation as an affluent and fashionable area, known for attractive terraces of large Victorian townhouses and high-end shopping and restaurants (particularly around Westbourne Grove and Clarendon Cross). A Daily Telegraph article in 2004 used
2886-460: The area is Westbourne Park and Notting Hill . These areas are separated by the by westway(north-south axis) and Ladbroke Grove which runs through the area north-south. The local historian Florence Gladstone, in her much reprinted work "Notting Hill in Bygone Days" defines Notting Hill as the whole of that part of Kensington which is north of the road known as Notting Hill Gate. North Kensington
2960-485: The author of many supernatural and fantastic fictions, lived at 23 Clarendon Road , Notting Hill Gate, in the 1880s; he writes of his life here in his memoirs Far Off Things (1922) and Things Near and Far (1923). His mystical work The Hill of Dreams (1907, though written ten years earlier) has scenes set in Notting Hill; it is here that the protagonist Lucian Taylor encounters the beautiful bronze-haired prostitute who will later connive at his death. The reputation of
3034-575: The centre of the Notting Hill race riot. David Cameron , former leader of the Conservative Party , is known as part of the "Notting Hill Set", though he states he lives in North Kensington. There are five tube stations in the area: Ladbroke Grove , Westbourne Park , Latimer Road , Notting Hill Gate and Kensal Green . Notting Hill is part of the parliamentary constituency of Kensington , represented by Conservative Felicity Buchan since
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3108-469: The circular racecourse tracks. At the summit of hill stands the elegant St John's church , built in 1845 in the early English style, and which formed the centrepiece of the Ladbroke Estate development. The Notting Hill houses were large, but they did not immediately succeed in enticing the very richest Londoners, who tended to live closer to the centre of London in Mayfair or Belgravia . The houses appealed to
3182-631: The city's literary and cultural life, studying art, visiting the National Gallery , attending the theatre and writing prose and poetry. His first published story, "How I Built Myself a House", appeared in Chamber's Journal in 1865. Here he wrote his first―but never published―novel, The Poor Man and the Lady , in 1867, and the poem "A Young Man's Exhortation", from which Graham Greene took an epigraph for his own novel The Comedians . Arthur Machen (1863–1947),
3256-523: The district altered over the course of the 20th century. As middle-class households ceased to employ servants, the large Notting Hill houses lost their market and were increasingly split into multiple occupation. During the Blitz a number of buildings were damaged or destroyed by the Luftwaffe , including All Saints' Church , which was hit in 1940 and again in 1944. In the postwar period the name Notting Hill evoked
3330-559: The early 20th century, their widespread opening up has similarly made squares broadly cited in portrayals of London. Initially cultural use was mainly confined to novels and, to a lesser degree, fine art. " It's a Long Way to Tipperary " is a 1910s song featuring the line "Farewell Leicester Square ". " A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square " is a romantic hit of 1940 with lyrics by Eric Maschwitz and music by Manning Sherwin , sang that year separately by Ray Noble and Vera Lynn and
3404-407: The east. The gentrification has encompassed some streets that were among the 1980s' most decrepit, including the now expensive retail sections of Westbourne Grove and Ledbury Road, as well as Portobello Road's emergence as a top London tourist attraction and Chamberlayne Road as a local shopping street with its boutique independent shops. Notting Hill has a high concentration of restaurants, including
3478-529: The electorate . At the 2011 Census its population was 9,988. 51°29′36″N 0°08′06″W / 51.4932°N 0.1351°W / 51.4932; -0.1351 Squares in London Squares have long been a feature of London and come in numerous identifiable forms. The landscaping spectrum of squares stretches from those with more hardscape , constituting town squares (also known as city squares)—to those with communal gardens , for which London
3552-430: The entire length of Notting Hill from north to south. It runs parallel to Ladbroke Grove. It contains Portobello Road Market , one of London's best known markets, containing an antique section and second-hand, fruit and veg and clothing stalls. The road was originally a lane leading to Portobello Farm in the north of Notting Hill. Westbourne Grove is a retail road running across Notting Hill from Kensington Park Road in
3626-403: The experience of those of Caribbean descent in 1970s Notting Hill including police brutality and discrimination. The Notting Hillbillies were a country rock project formed by Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler in 1986. They released a single album, Missing...Presumed Having a Good Time , in 1990. Notting Hill is often referred to as 'the most Instagrammable district in London' due to
3700-601: The future of the Carnival". An interim report by the review resulted in a change to the route in 2002. When the full report was published in 2004, it was recommended that Hyde Park be used as a "savannah"; though this move has attracted some concern that the Hyde Park event may overshadow the original street carnival. In 2003 Carnival was run by a limited company , the Notting Hill Carnival Trust Ltd. A report by
3774-559: The groundsman's house, and is used on school weekdays by Westminster Under School . Other buildings fronting the square include the headquarters of the Royal Horticultural Society . Outside of school bookings the courts host many fixtures of the Lords and Commons Tennis Club. Numbering is from the east corner, clockwise (3 to 87) and applies to fewer than 87 buildings, from great mergers and additional road openings. Those listed in
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#17328523164783848-533: The hill. However, the venture was not a success, in part due to a public right of way which traversed the course, and in part due to the heavy clay of the neighbourhood which caused it to become waterlogged. The Hippodrome closed in 1841, after which development resumed and houses were built on the site. The crescent-shaped roads that circumvent the hill, such as Blenheim Crescent , Elgin Crescent , Stanley Crescent, Cornwall Crescent and Landsdowne Crescent, were built over
3922-598: The inhabitants of surrounding houses. All types of the space are more prevalent in parts of London with high (urban) density. Some of these gardens are now open to the public, while others, for example around Notting Hill , are railed (a form of fencing) and private. The terminology has been loosely applied for over a century. Some "squares" are irregularly shaped—including five triangles, a pentagon, hexagon, octagon, and two ovals among those officially named Square . Approbative and technical studies of garden squares commonly cover equivalent landscaped communal gardens not named as
3996-443: The initial, mainstream category of statutory recognition and protection (" Grade II listed ") are: At rarer, Grade II* is: In 1981, Westminster Under School opened in the building of the former Grosvenor Hospital for Women which had closed in 1976. Vincent Square lends its name to a current electoral ward of the local authority, Westminster City Council . Its bounds are thus drawn up for approximately equal representation of
4070-524: The junction with Denbigh Road, is the one most closely associated with Notting Hill. It covers the central part of Notting Hill, and is situated between the A402 (Holland Park Avenue) to the south and the Westway to the north. Notting Hill is made up of four sub areas plus Notting Hill itself. In the north west is Kensal Green … North Kensington in the south west while to the north east is Kensal Town and South east of
4144-490: The last quarter of the 20th century a fashion for making office squares developed, a trend led by the Broadgate development. Developers such as London Square, Berkeley Homes and Taylor Wimpey (in the first two instances through their London subsidiaries) have built and set aside land in more than one of their 21st century London developments to create those of the residential type. More broadly, mixed-use squares to give
4218-428: The main thoroughfare and tube station at the heart of Notting Hill. That part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea roughly encompassed by the electoral wards of Saint Charles, Golborne, Notting Barns, Colville, Norland, and Pembridge, which is bounded on the north by Harrow Road and on the south by Notting Hill Gate and Holland Park Avenue , includes all areas known as Notting Hill, including Notting Barns,
4292-572: The past, putting it among the largest street festivals in Europe. It attracted press attention in 1976 for clashes with the police, which occurred in 1976 at the conclusion of the Notting Hill Carnival after police arrested a pickpocket and a group of black youths came to his defence. The disturbance escalated and more than 100 police officers were injured. Two notable participants in this riot were Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon , who later formed
4366-554: The period of legal inclosure and/or the city/county's 16 country parks. The making of residential squares fell into decline in the early 20th century, one of the last notable such squares having been designed by Edwin Lutyens for Hampstead Garden Suburb . Numerous squares were in danger of filling in for further building. This was banned by the London Squares Preservation Act 1931 ( 21 & 22 Geo. 5 . c. xciii). In
4440-518: The phrase "the Notting Hill set " to refer to a group of emerging Conservative politicians, such as David Cameron and George Osborne , who would become respectively Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer and were once based in Notting Hill. Notting Hill is in the ceremonial county of Greater London although it was formerly a hamlet on rural land until the expansion of urban London during
4514-517: The population makes the area one of the most cosmopolitan in the world. Notting Hill Carnival is an annual Caribbean carnival event in August, over two days (Sunday and the following bank holiday ). It has continuously taken place since 1965. It is led by members of the Caribbean population, many of whom have lived in the area since the 1950s. The carnival has attracted up to 1.5 million people in
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#17328523164784588-427: The property. In 1823 Allason completed a plan for the layout of the main portion of the estate. This marks the genesis of his most enduring idea – the creation of large private communal gardens, originally known as "pleasure grounds", or "paddocks", enclosed by terraces and/or crescents of houses. Instead of houses being set around a garden square, separated from it by a road, Allason's houses would have direct access to
4662-399: The public ( Paternoster Square ). The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea contains over a hundred garden squares whose use is restricted to residents, almost all share a name with their directly adjoining road. Residents may contract with private contractors or with the council, in which case the council charges those residents, typically at the same time as council tax . One instance
4736-488: The respective iron bridges on Ladbroke Grove and Golborne Road . Parts of this area fall under the London Borough of Brent. It has been earmarked for regeneration around the proposed crossrail station next to Sainsbury's. The area is served by Kensal Green station (Underground and Overground) North Kensington is the key neighbourhood of Notting Hill. It is where most of the violence of the race riots occurred, where
4810-493: The seminal London punk band The Clash . Their song " White Riot " was inspired by their participation in this event. Further incidents continued for a few years, but receded for several decades, until 2008 when approximately 500 youths clashed with police on the Monday. As the event grew, concerns about the size of the event prompted Ken Livingstone to set up a Carnival Review Group to look into "formulating guidelines to safeguard
4884-509: The slum children from this street were documented in the 1950s photographs of Roger Mayne . In late August and early September 1958, the Notting Hill race riots occurred. The series of disturbances are thought to have started on 30 August when a gang of white youths attacked a Swedish woman, Majbritt Morrison , who was married to a West Indian man (Raymond Morrison), following a previous incident in Latimer Road tube station. Later that night
4958-545: The south Notting Hill when referring to Notting Hill Gate and Holland Park . North Kensington was once well known for its slum housing. However, North Kensington retains high levels of poverty and unemployment and a high-proportion of social housing for rent. In this area, Grenfell Tower is also found, which burnt down in 2017. Waves of immigration to the area have occurred for at least a century, including, but certainly not limited to, people of Irish, Jewish, Caribbean, Spanish, and Moroccan extraction. This constant renewal of
5032-582: The southern part of Ladbroke Grove, many of which lead onto substantial communal gardens. There are grand terraces, such as Kensington Park Gardens, and large villas as in Pembridge Square and around Holland Park. There is also new construction of modern houses tucked away on backland sites. Since at least 2000, independent shops in Portobello such as Culture Shack have lost out to multinational standardised chains such as Starbucks . In 2009, Lipka's Arcade,
5106-462: The turnpike gate stood was known as Notting Hill Gate. The gate was there to stop people passing along the road without paying. The proceeds were applied towards the maintenance of this important road. The gate was removed in the 19th century and the high road was widened and straightened in the 1960s, involving the demolition of many buildings, the linking of two separate tube stations and the construction of two tower blocks. Portobello Road runs almost
5180-548: The two Michelin-rated The Ledbury and Core by Clare Smyth . The hill from which Notting Hill takes its name is still clearly visible, with its summit in the middle of Ladbroke Grove , at the junction with Kensington Park Gardens . Notting Hill has no official boundaries, so definitions of which areas fall under Notting Hill vary. The postcode "W11", centred on the former site of the Post Office in Westbourne Grove , near
5254-648: The upper middle class, who could live there in Belgravia style at lower prices. In the opening chapter of John Galsworthy 's Forsyte Saga novels, he housed the Nicholas Forsytes "in Ladbroke Grove, a spacious abode and a great bargain". In 1862 Thomas Hardy left Dorchester for London to work with architect Arthur Blomfield ; during this period he lived in Westbourne Park Villas. He immersed himself in
5328-405: The west to Queensway in the east, crossing over Portobello Road. It was noted as "fashionable" and "up-and-coming" from the 1990s since then it has attracted many designer label outlets as well as independent and chain retailers. The Notting Hill Carnival passes along the central part of Westbourne Grove. Westbourne Green is the area in between Westbourne Park Station and Royal Oak Station and
5402-501: Was created in 1892 out of a former area of pig slurry called "the Ocean". This was part of a general clean-up of the area which had become known as the Potteries and Piggeries. The area remained rural until London's westward expansion reached Bayswater in the early 19th century. The Ladbroke family was Notting Hill's main landowner, and from the 1820s James Weller Ladbroke began to develop
5476-435: Was to call the district Kensington Park , and other roads (notably Kensington Park Road and Kensington Park Gardens ) are reminders of this. The local telephone prefix 7727 (originally 727) is based on the old telephone exchange name of PARk. Ladbroke left the actual business of developing his land to the firm of City solicitors, Smith, Bayley (known as Bayley and Janson after 1836), who worked with Allason to develop
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