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Campden Hill Road. Campden Hill Road is a street in Kensington, London W8. It runs north to south from Notting Hill Gate to Kensington High Street. History. Campden Hill Road was originally called Plough Lane. By 1879, William Abbott, a stockbroker, "held the lease of the site between Phillimore Walk, Campden Hill Road, and Hornton ...
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The small street called Campden Hill runs from Campden Hill...
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Former College building in Campden Hill Road (gates dated 1915), now Academy Gardens. QEC reunited with King's College London in 1985, and the Kensington campus became associated with biomedical sciences. However, the campus was closed and sold in 2000 with the contents being decanted to the Franklin-Wilkins Building.
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4 de sept. de 2022 · The Campden Hill water tower was built as part of the 19th century roll out of water supplies across an expanding London. The Grand Junction Water Works Company purchased the land at the top of the road in 1843, and built a reservoir. This was followed by a pumping station and the water tower.
Accessed by a new road from Kensington High Street, named Campden Hill Road, they became dwellings for aristocratic families, being within three miles - an easy carriage drive - from London’s Mayfair.
Hillsleigh Road (known as New Road until 1910) was formed on the east side of Campden Hill Square partly to serve the same function as Aubrey Road on the west, i.e. to provide access to stables and coach-houses at the rear of houses in the square (Plate 43d).
Land on the eastern side of Campden Hill Road had already been built over before George Henry Boughton (1833-1905) decided to commission a house in this part of Kensington. Boughton was born in England but raised in America and came to London on an artists’ scholarship in 1861.
