Maids of Honour Row – The Green
This early Georgian terrace built in 1724 for Caroline, Queen to George II. Caroline was a popular benevolent monarch who like many British queens suffered years of family turmoil. Her political mind, intellect and culture, however, gained her much respect. She can also be credited with being a pioneer of the novel idea of a […]
The Opening of Terrace and Buccleuch Gardens
For hundreds of years, the parish was the most important unit of local government. The parish vestry members of Richmond hearing In the late 1800s that the Duke of Buccleuch’s estate was for sale felt concerned, This land included the stretch adjacent to the river, where the family house stood as well as acres of […]
Cholmondeley Walk
Cholmondeley Walk gets its name from the Cholmondeley family. They had been important to the crown from 1686 when the 2nd Earl, George gave up his legal career to join the Queen’s Regiment of Horse. The oldest regiment in existence today and named after Queen Mary, James II’s wife. George must have been a protestant sympathiser […]