Kew

Kew (/kjuː/) is a district in the London

Borough of Richmond upon Thames, 1.5
miles (2.4 km) north-east of Richmond[2]
and 7.1 miles (11.4 km) west by south-
west of Charing Cross; its population at
the 2011 census was 11,436.[1] Kew is the
location of the Royal Botanic Gardens
("Kew Gardens"), now a World Heritage
Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is
also the home of important historical
documents such as Domesday Book,
which is held at The National Archives.
 Kew

Parish Church of St Anne, Kew

Temperate House in Kew Gardens

Kew

Location within
Greater London

Area 3.30 km2 (1.27 sq mi)

Population 11,436 2011 Census
(Kew ward 2011)[1]

• Density 3,465/km2
(8,970/sq mi)

OS grid reference TQ195775

London borough Richmond

Ceremonial county Greater London

Region London

Country England

Sovereign state United Kingdom

Post town RICHMOND

Postcode district TW9

Dialling code 020
Police Metropolitan

Fire London

Ambulance London

UK Parliament Richmond Park

London Assembly South West

Julius Caesar may have forded the

Thames at Kew in 54 BC during the Gallic
Wars.[3] Successive Tudor, Stuart and
Georgian monarchs maintained links with
Kew. During the French Revolution, many
refugees established themselves there
and it was the home of several artists in
the 18th and 19th centuries.

Since 1965 Kew has incorporated the

former area of North Sheen[4] which
includes St Philip and All Saints, the first
barn church consecrated in England.[5] It is
now in a combined Church of England
parish with St Luke's Church, Kew.

Today, Kew is an expensive residential

area because of its suburban hallmarks.
Among these are sports-and-leisure open
spaces, schools, transport links,
architecture, restaurants, no high-rise
buildings, modest road sizes, trees and
gardens. Most of Kew developed in the
late 19th century, following the arrival of
the District line of the London
Underground. Further development took
place in the 1920s and 1930s when new
houses were built on the market gardens
of North Sheen and in the first decade of
the 21st century when considerably more
river-fronting flats and houses were
constructed by the Thames on land
formerly owned by Thames Water.

Etymology
The name Kew, recorded in 1327 as Cayho,
is a combination of two words: the Old
French kai (landing place; "quay" derives
from this) and Old English hoh (spur of
land). The land spur is formed by the bend
in the Thames.[6]

Governance
Kew forms part of the Richmond Park UK
Parliament constituency; the Member of
Parliament is Sarah Olney. For elections to
the London Assembly it is part of the
South West London Assembly
constituency.
Kew was added in 1892[7] to the Municipal
Borough of Richmond which had been
formed two years earlier, and which was in
the county of Surrey. In 1965, under the
London Government Act 1963, the
boundaries of Greater London were
expanded to include Kew which, with
Richmond, transferred from Surrey to the
new London Borough of Richmond upon
Thames.

Economy
The Caxton Name Plate Manufacturing Company's

former premises can still be identified from Kew

Bridge, with its name on the building.

1954 Dodge Kew lorry

1936 Chrysler Heston in the National Railway

Museum, York

The fashion clothing retailer Jigsaw's

headquarters are in Mortlake Road, Kew.[8]

A former industry in Kew was that of

nameplate manufacturing, by the Caxton
Name Plate Manufacturing Company,
based on Kew Green. The company was
founded in 1964 and folded in 1997.[9]
Chrysler and Dodge …

Kew Retail Park stands on the site of a

former factory where, from the 1920s until
1967, Dodge made lorries with the model
name Kew. Cars were also manufactured
there.[10] Dodge Brothers became a
Chrysler subsidiary in 1928 and truck
production moved to Chrysler's car plant at
Kew. In 1933 it began to manufacture a
British chassis, at its works in Kew, using
American engines and gearboxes.[11] After
Chrysler bought the Maxwell Motor
Company and their Kew works, the cars of
the lighter Chrysler range – Chrysler
Airflows, De Sotos and Plymouths — were
assembled at this Kew site until the
Second World War. The various models of
De Sotos were named Richmond, Mortlake
and Croydon; Plymouths were Kew Six and
Wimbledon.

During the Second World War this Chrysler

factory was part of London Aircraft
Production Group and built Handley Page
Halifax aircraft assemblies. When wartime
aircraft production ceased, the plant did
not resume assembly of North American
cars.

People

Royal associations with Kew …

West Hall is Kew's only surviving 17th-century building

apart from Kew Palace
Sarah Kirby (née Bull) and Joshua Kirby by Thomas
Gainsborough

A musical portrait of Frederick, Prince of Wales and

his sisters by Philip Mercier, dated 1733, uses the
Dutch House, the present-day Kew Palace, as its plein-
air backdrop
Marianne North Gallery, Kew Gardens, interior

French painter Camille Pissarro's impression of Kew

Green in 1892
Tomb of the painter Johan Zoffany at St Anne's
Church

The Tudors and Stuarts …

Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester,

was granted lands at Kew in 1517. When
he died in 1526 he left his Kew estates to
his third wife, Eleanor, with the remainder
to his son George. In 1538 Sir George
Somerset sold the house for £200 to
Thomas Cromwell, who resold it for the
same amount to Charles Brandon, 1st
Duke of Suffolk. Brandon had probably
already inhabited Kew during the life of his
wife Mary Tudor, the daughter of Henry VII
and widow of the French king Louis XII.
According to John Leland's Cygnea Cantio
("Swan Song"), she stayed in Kew (which
he refers to as "Cheva")[12] for a time after
her return to England.[13]

One of Henry VIII's closest friends, Henry

Norris, lived at Kew Farm,[14] which was
later owned by Elizabeth I's favourite,
Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester.[15] This
large palatial house on the Thames
riverbank predated the royal palaces of
Kew Palace and the White House.
Excavations at Kew Gardens in 2009
revealed a wall that may have belonged to
the property.[16]

In Elizabeth's reign, and under the Stuarts,

houses were developed along Kew
Green.[17] West Hall, which survives in
West Hall Road, dates from at least the
14th century and the present house was
built at the end of the 17th century.[18]
Elizabeth Stuart, daughter of James I, was
given a household at Kew in 1608.[13]

Queen Anne subscribed to the building of

the parish church on Kew Green, which
was dedicated to St Anne in 1714, three
months before the Queen's death.[19]

The Hanoverians …

The Hanoverians maintained the strongest

links with Kew, in particular Princess
Augusta who founded the botanic
gardens[20] and her husband Frederick,
Prince of Wales who lived at the White
House in Kew. Augusta, as Dowager
Princess of Wales, continued to live there
until her death in 1721.[21] Frederick
commissioned the building of the first
substantial greenhouse at Kew
Gardens.[22]

In 1761 the future George III and Queen

Charlotte moved into the White House at
Kew.[21] They established their main
summer court at Kew from the 1760s and
1770s. Queen Charlotte died at the Dutch
House in Kew in 1818.[21]
William IV spent most of his early life at
Richmond and at Kew Palace, where he
was educated by private tutors.[23]

Georgian expansion …

During the French Revolution, many

refugees established themselves in Kew,
having built many of the houses of this
period. In the 1760s and 1770s the royal
presence attracted artists such as
Thomas Gainsborough and Johann
Zoffany.[13][24]
Artists associated with Kew …

Franz (later Francis) Bauer (1758–1840)

was an Austrian microscopist and
botanical artist who became the first
botanical illustrator at Kew Gardens. By
1790 he had settled at Kew, where as
well as making detailed paintings and
drawings of flower dissections, often at
microscopic level, he tutored Queen
Charlotte, her daughter Princess
Elizabeth and William Hooker in the art
of illustration, and often entertained
friends and botanists at his home. He is
buried at St Anne's,[25] next to Thomas
Gainsborough.
The American-born English artist Walter
Deverell (1827–1854), who was
associated with the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood, lived at 352 Kew Road,
then called Heathfield House. He had a
studio at the end of the garden where
there are now garages. In this setting he
painted "The Pet".[26]
George Engleheart (1750–1829), who
was born in Kew,[27] was one of the
greatest English painters of portrait
miniatures.
Thomas Gainsborough (1727–1788)
visited Kew many times, staying with his
friend Joshua Kirby and, after Kirby's
death, in a house probably rented by his
daughter close to St Anne's Church,
where he is buried.[24]
Arthur Hughes (1832–1915), Pre-
Raphaelite painter, lived and died at
Eastside House, 22 Kew Green, Kew.[28]
The site is marked by a blue plaque.[29]
Joshua Kirby (1716–1774) was a
landscape painter, engraver, and writer,
whose main artistic focus was "linear
perspective", based on the ideas of
English mathematician Brook Taylor.[30]
He was the son of topographer John
Kirby, and the father of the writer Sarah
Trimmer and the entomologist William
Kirby.[31] In 1760 he moved to Kew,
where he taught linear perspective to
George III.[32] He was a Fellow of the
Royal Society.
Sir Peter Lely (1618–1680), portrait
painter, had a house on the north side of
Kew Green.[33] On almost exactly the
same site, Jeremiah Meyer (1735–
1789), miniaturist to Queen Charlotte
and George III, built a house a century
later. Meyer is buried at St Anne's.[24]
Charles Mozley (1914–1991), artist and
art teacher, lived and died at 358 Kew
Road, Kew.[34][35]
Victorian artist Marianne North (1830–
1890) did not live in Kew, but she left to
Kew Gardens her collection of botanic
art, painted on her extensive overseas
travels, and funded a gallery – the
Marianne North Gallery – to house
them.[36]
French Impressionist painter Camille
Pissarro (1830–1903) stayed in 1892 at
 10 Kew Green, on the corner of
Gloucester Road, which is marked by a
blue plaque.[37] During his stay he
painted Kew Gardens – Path to the Great
Glasshouse (1892), [1] Kew Greens
(1892) [2] and Church at Kew (1892).[3]
His third son, Félix Pissarro (1874–
1897), painter, etcher and caricaturist,
died in a sanatorium at 262 Kew Road in
1897.[38]
The painter Johann Zoffany (1725–
1810), who lived at Strand-on-the-Green,
is buried at St Anne's.[39]

Other notable inhabitants …

Historical figures …

Cottages on Kew Green

Playwright Harold Pinter lived in Kew.

William Aiton (1731–1793), botanist,

was appointed director in 1759 of the
newly established botanical garden at
Kew, where he remained until his death.
He effected many improvements at the
gardens, and in 1789 he published
Hortus Kewensis, a catalogue of the
plants cultivated there.[nb 1] When he
died, he was succeeded as director at
Kew Gardens by his son William
Townsend Aiton (1766–1849), who was
also botanist, and was born in Kew.[40]
William Townsend Aiton was one of the
founders of the Royal Horticultural
Society.[40] He retired in 1841 but
remained living at Kew, although
passing much of his time with his
brother at Kensington where he died in
1849.[40] Both father and son lived at
Descanso House on Kew Green and are
buried in St Anne's churchyard[40][40]
where the substantial family tomb is a
prominent feature. Inside the church
there is also a memorial to them.[41]
David Blomfield (1934–2016), leader of
the Liberal Party group on Richmond
upon Thames Council, writer, book
editor and local historian, lived in
Kew.[42]
Richard Cook (1957–2007), British jazz
writer, magazine editor and former
record company executive, was born in
Kew.[43]
Stephen Duck (c.1705–1756), poet, lived
in Kew.[33]
Prince Friso of the Netherlands (1968–
2013), brother of King Willem-Alexander
of the Netherlands, lived in Kew.[44]
Liberal Party leader Jo Grimond (1913–
1993) lived on Kew Green.[4][45]
Sir William Hooker (1785–1865) and his
son Sir Joseph Hooker (1817–1911),
botanists and directors of Kew Gardens,
lived at 49 Kew Green, Kew. The site is
marked by a blue plaque.[46][47]
Alfred Luff (1846–1933), English
cricketer, was born in Kew.[48]
Phil Lynott (1949–1986), Irish rock
guitarist, songwriter, vocalist and leader
of Thin Lizzy, lived in Kew.[49]
Andrew Millar (1705–1768), Scottish
bookseller, owned a country home on
Kew Green.[50]
Samuel Molyneux (1689–1728),
Member of Parliament, and an amateur
astronomer, who was married to Lady
Elizabeth Diana Capel, the eldest
daughter of the Earl of Essex, inherited
Kew House on the death of Lady Capel
of Tewkesbury.[51] Molyneux set up an
observatory at the house and
collaborated there with James Bradley
in innovative designs for reflecting
telescopes.[51] Kew House which later,
as the White House, became the home
of Prince Frederick and Princess
Augusta, was pulled down in 1802 when
George II's short-lived gothic
"castellated palace" was built.[52]
Desmond Morton (1891–1971), soldier,
intelligence officer and personal
assistant to Winston Churchill, 1940–45,
lived at 22 Kew Green 1952–71.[53]
Conrad Noel (1869–1942), Church of
England priest and prominent British
Christian socialist, was born in Royal
Cottage, Kew Green.[54]
Harold Pinter (1930–2008), playwright,
dramatist, actor and director, lived at
Fairmead Court, Taylor Avenue, Kew.[55]
Sir Hugh Portman, 4th Baronet (died
1632), MP for Taunton, lived in a house
opposite Kew Palace.[33]
Sir John Puckering (1544–1596), lawyer,
politician, Speaker of the English House
of Commons, and Lord Keeper from
1592 until his death, lived in Kew.[33]
Anthony Saxton (1934–2015),
advertising executive and headhunter,
lived at 3 Mortlake Road in Kew, and
was a churchwarden of St Anne's
Church, Kew.[56]
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713–
1792), botanist and honorary director of
 Kew Gardens, 1754–1772, adviser to
Princess Augusta and tutor to George III
and, later, Prime Minister of Great Britain
(1762–63), lived at King's Cottage, 33
Kew Green.[57]
Patrick Troughton (1921–1987), actor,
most famous for playing the Second
Doctor in the TV series Doctor Who, lived
in Kew.[58]
George Vassila (1857–1915), English
cricketer, was born in Kew.[59]
Living people …
TV presenter and former international gymnast Gabby
Logan lives in Kew.

Geoffrey Archer, fiction writer and

former Defence Correspondent of ITN,
lives in Kew.[60]
Mick Avory, musician and former
drummer with The Kinks, lives in Kew.[61]
Nick Baird, group corporate affairs
director of energy firm, Centrica, lives in
Kew.
Ray Brooks, actor, lives in Kew.[62]
Justin Lee Collins, comedian and
television presenter, lives in Kew.[63]
Sir David Durie, former Governor of
Gibraltar, lives in Kew.[64]
Simon Fowler, social historian and
author, lives in Kew.[65]
Sir Donald Insall, architect,
conservationist and author, lives in
Kew.[66]
Milton Jones, comedian, was brought up
in Kew.[67]
Gabby Logan, TV presenter, and her
husband Kenny Logan, rugby player, live
in Kew.[68]
Serge Lourie, former Leader of
Richmond upon Thames Council, and
councillor for Kew for 28 years, lives in
Kew.[69]
Paul Ormerod, economist, lives in
Kew.[70]
Helen Sharman, the first British woman
in space, lives in Kew[71]
Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge, former
MP, lives in Kew.[72]
 Sue Vertue, television producer, and her
husband Steven Moffat, television writer
and producer, live in Kew.[73][74]

Demography
In the ten years from the time of the 2001
census, the population rose from 9,445[75]
to 11,436,[1] the sharpest ten-year increase
in Kew since the early 20th century. This
was partly accounted for by the
conversion of former Thames Water land
to residential use, and increases in
property sizes. The figures are based on
those for Kew ward,[75] the boundaries of
the enlarged parish having been adjusted
to allow for all wards in the borough to be
equally sized.

Homes and households …

2011 Census homes

Shared
Semi- Flats and Caravans/temporary/mobile
Ward Detached Terraced between
detached apartments homes/houseboats
households[1]

Kew 426 1,029 1,212 2,268 4 25

Kew Bridge
Kew Pier

Kew Railway Bridge stonework

2011 Census households

Ward Population Households % Owned outright % Owned with a loan Hectares[1]

Kew 11,436 4,941 30 30 330

Ethnicity …
The 2011 census showed that 66.2% of
the population were White British. Other
White was the second largest category at
16%, with 8.1% being Asian.[76]

Transport
A main mode of transport between Kew
and London, for rich and poor alike, was by
water along the Thames which, historically,
separated Middlesex (on the north bank)
from Surrey: Kew was also connected to
Brentford, Middlesex by ferry, first replaced
by bridge in 1759. The current Kew Bridge,
which carries the South Circular Road (the
A205) was opened by King Edward VII and
Queen Alexandra in 1903.[21]

The A205 road commencing there passes

through Kew as a single carriageway.
However Kew Road provides the main
road link to Richmond. The M4 motorway
starts a short distance north of Kew,
providing access to Heathrow Airport and
the west. The A316 road starts in Chiswick
and continues over Chiswick Bridge and a
complex junction with the South Circular
Road at Chalker's Corner at the south-
eastern end of the district.
Since 1869 rail services have been
available from Kew Gardens station.
London Underground (District line)
services run to Richmond and to central
London. London Overground trains run to
Richmond and (via Willesden Junction) to
Stratford.

Three bus routes serve Kew: the 65, 391

and R68.[77]

River bus services supported by publicly

funded Transport for London are from Kew
Pier, to Richmond, Hampton Court and to
Westminster Pier in central London.[78]
Nearest places
Brentford
East Sheen
Richmond
Gunnersbury
Chiswick
Mortlake
Barnes
Nearest railway stations
Kew Bridge station (South Western
Railway)
Kew Gardens station (London
Overground; London Underground
 District line)
North Sheen station (South Western
Railway)
Bridges
Kew Bridge, which carries the A205
South Circular Road. Beside the bridge
is Kew Pier, which serves tourist ferries
operating under licence from London
River Services.
Kew Railway Bridge

Parks and open spaces

Kew Green

Japanese garden in Kew Gardens

The war memorial gate at Westerley Ware

Kew Green is used by Kew Cricket Club

for cricket matches in the summer.
Kew Pond, near the northeast corner of
Kew Green, believed to date from the
tenth century,[79][80] is originally thought
to have been a natural pond fed from a
creek of the tidal Thames. During high
(spring) tides, sluice gates are opened
to allow river water to fill the pond via an
underground channel. The pond is
concreted, rectangular in shape and
contains an important reed bed habitat
which is vital for conservation and
resident water birds. The pond is
managed in partnership with the Friends
of Kew Pond.[81]
North Sheen Recreation Ground in
Dancer Road, known locally as "The
Rec", was originally part of an orchard
belonging to the Popham Estate, owned
by the Leyborne Pophams whose family
seat was at Littlecote House, Wiltshire.
Opened in June 1909 and extended in
1923, it now contains football pitches, a
running track, a children's paddling pool,
two extensive playgrounds, a large dog-
free grassed area and a pavilion set
amongst trees and shrubs.[82] It is also
the home of a local football club, Kew
Park Rangers. A new £1 million sports
pavilion[83] was opened in September
2011.[84]
Pensford Field,[85] previously playing
fields of the former Gainsborough
School, is now a nature reserve and also
the home of Pensford Tennis Club.
St Luke's Open Space, a quiet sitting
area and toddlers' play area, was
previously a playground for a former
Victorian primary school.[86][nb 2]
 Westerley Ware is at the foot of Kew
Bridge. It was created as a memorial
garden to the fallen in the First World
War, and also has a grass area, three
hard tennis courts and a children's
playground. Its name refers to the
practice of netting weirs or "wares" to
catch fish.[87][88]

Sport and leisure

Kew's several other sports clubs include:

North Sheen Bowling Club on Marksbury

Avenue[89]
 Priory Park Club on Forest Road – tennis
and (until 2017) bowls[90][91]
Putney Town Rowing Club on
Townmead Road
Richmond Gymnastics Association on
Townmead Road[92]

The nearest football club in the Football

League is Brentford FC, approximately one
mile away.

Societies
 The Kew Society

Motto We care about Kew

Formation 1901 (as the Kew

Union)[93]

Legal status registered charity

Membership 800
Chair Roger Mason
Main organ The Kew Society
Newsletter
Budget £30,000[94]
Staff none
Website www.kewsociety.org

The Kew Horticultural Society, founded in

1938, organises an annual show in late
August/early September[95][96][97] as well
as talks, events and outings throughout
the year.

The Kew Society, founded in 1901 as the

Kew Union,[93] is a civic society that seeks
to enhance the beauty of Kew and
preserve its heritage. It reviews all
planning applications in Kew with special
regard to the architectural integrity and
heritage of the neighbourhood, and plays
an active role in the improvement of local
amenities. The Society, which is a member
of Civic Voice,[98] organises community
events including lectures and outings and
produces a quarterly newsletter.

The Richmond Local History Society is

concerned with the history of Kew, as well
as Richmond, Petersham and Ham.[99]

Education
Darell Primary and Nursery School

Primary schools …

Darell Primary and Nursery School is on

Darell Road and Niton Road. It opened in
1906, as the Darell Road Schools, at the
southern end of what had been the
Leyborne-Popham estate.[100] Darell
School was Richmond Borough
Council's first primary school and was
built in the "Queen Anne" style, in brick
with white stone facings. Although it has
been extended several times, it is now
the only Richmond primary school still in
its historic original pre-1914
building.[101]
Kew Riverside Primary School, on
Courtlands Avenue, opened in 2003.[102]
The Queen's Church of England Primary
School is in Cumberland Road, where it
moved in 1969.[103] In her will of 1719,
Dorothy, Lady Capel of Kew House left
to four trustees Perry Court Farm in
Kent, which she had inherited from her
father. One twelfth of the rent from the
farm was to be given to St Anne's
Church to establish a school in Kew.[104]
In 1810, a "Free School" was opened in
the church for 50 children, financed by
subscribers who gave one guinea a year,
in addition to a contribution by King
George III. In 1824 the school moved to
a site near the pond on Kew Green. The
foundation stone was laid on 12 August,
the birthday of King George IV, who gave
£300 on condition that it be called "The
King's Free School". Queen Victoria gave
permission for it to be called "The
 Queen's School" and decreed that its
title should change with that of the
monarch.[103]

Independent preparatory schools …

Broomfield House School, on Broomfield

Road, was founded in 1876.[105]
Kew College, a co-educational school
for 3–11 year olds, was founded in 1927
by Mrs Ellen Upton in rooms over a shop
in Kew. Mrs Upton's young daughter was
one of the first pupils. The school later
moved to Cumberland Road. In 1953,
Mrs Upton retired and sold the school to
 Mrs Hamilton-Spry who, in 1985, handed
over the buildings to a charitable trust to
ensure the school's long term continuity.
Kew Green Preparatory School, at
Layton House, Ferry Lane, near Kew
Green, opened in 2004.
Unicorn School, established in 1970, is a
co-educational, parent-owned school on
Kew Road, opposite Kew Gardens.

Places of worship
Five churches in Kew are currently in use:
 Name Denomination/affiliation History Address Website Image

Founded in 1861 in
Richmond as Salem
2a
Baptist Church, it
Kew Windsor www
moved in 1973 to a
Baptist Grace Baptist Road, .kewbaptist
new building in Kew
Church Richmond .com
and adopted its
TW9 2EL
current name in
1990.

Our Lady Roman Catholic From 1890 to 1906 1 www

of Loreto local Roman Leyborne .stwinefrides
and St Catholics met in a Park, Kew, .org.uk
Winefride's, temporary chapel at a Richmond
Kew Catholic mission on TW9 3HB
Kew Gardens Road.
Designed by the
architects Scoles &
Raymond, the new
church was opened
in 1906 and the side
aisles, baptistery and
chapels were added
in 1968. The
sanctuary was
remodelled in 1977
and the church was
refurbished and
decorated in 1998. A
parish hall is located
next to the church.
After a parishioner's
bequest paid off the
 church's debts, the
church was
dedicated and
consecrated in 1979.

Built in 1714 on land

given by Queen Anne,
the church, now
Grade II* listed, has
been extended
several times. The
Kew
present parish hall
St Anne's Green, www
was built in 1978.
Church, Anglican Kew, .saintanne-
The churchyard has
Kew Richmond kew.org.uk
two Grade II* listed
TW9 3AA
monuments – the
tombs of the artists
Johan Zoffany (d.
1816) and Thomas
Gainsborough (d.
1788).

St Luke's Anglican Founded in 1889, St The www

Church, Luke's now forms a Avenue, .stlukeskew
Kew joint parish with the Kew, .org
Barn Church (below). Richmond
The church, built in TW9 2AJ
the Gothic Revival
style by architects
Goldie, Child and
Goldie, was
redesigned in 1983 to
create a smaller
space for Christian
 worship in the former
chancel area and to
enable the former
nave, and a second
hall constructed in a
loft conversion, to be
used for community
purposes also: it now
hosts the Kew
Community Trust and
acts as a community
centre.

St Philip Anglican Founded in 1929, this Atwood barnchurchk

and All was the first barn Avenue, ew.uk
Saints church to be Kew,
Church, consecrated in Richmond
Kew (the England. Local TW9 4HF
Barn Anglicans previously
Church) worshipped at St
Peter's, a hall erected
in 1910 (and now
demolished) on the
corner of Marksbury
Avenue and Chilton
Road. The church
building was
constructed in 1929
from a 17th- (or
possibly 16th-)
century barn from
Oxted in Surrey. The
west end was
 converted in 2002
into a large parish
room with a gallery
above looking down
the length of the
building. The
sanctuary was
refurbished and
remodelled in 1998.

Former churches include the late 19th-

century Cambridge Road Wesleyan
Methodist Chapel, previously known as the
Gloucester Road Wesleyan Methodist
Chapel[106] and also known as Cambridge
Road Methodist Church,[107] which was in
use from 1891 to 1969.[107] A late
Victorian Salvation Army hall at 6 North
Road, built in the style of a chapel, was
converted into flats (1–5 Quiet Way) in the
early 21st century.[108]

Cemeteries and crematorium

North Sheen Cemetery

Mortlake Crematorium and two

cemeteries – North Sheen Cemetery and
Mortlake Cemetery – are located in
Kew.[109]

Literary references to Kew

Lilac in Kew Gardens

Tram to Kew and Richmond c.1900

I am His Highness' dog at Kew;

Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Epigram, engraved on the Collar of a

Dog which I gave to his Royal Highness
(Frederick, Prince of Wales), 1736[110]
(Alexander Pope, 1688–1744)

And the wildest dreams of Kew are the

facts of Khatmandhu

In The Neolithic Age, 1892 (Rudyard

Kipling, 1865–1936)
Go down to Kew in lilac-time, in lilac-time,
in lilac-time;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far
from London!)
And you shall wander hand in hand with
love in summer's wonderland;
Go down to Kew in lilac-time (it isn't far
from London!)

The Barrel-Organ, 1920 (Alfred Noyes,

1880–1958)

Trams and dusty trees.

Highbury bore me. Richmond and Kew
Undid me.
 The Waste Land, 1922 (T. S. Eliot,
1888–1965)

Lady Croom: My hyacinth dell is become a

haunt for
hobgoblins, my Chinese bridge, which I am
assured is
superior to the one at Kew, and for all I
know at Peking, is
usurped by a fallen obelisk overgrown with
briars.

Arcadia, 1993 (Tom Stoppard, b. 1937)

See also
 Dodge 100 "Kew"
Dodge 300
Kew Gardens and Royal Botanic
Gardens, Kew
Kew Green
Kew Letters
Kew Mortuary
Kew Observatory
Kew Palace
North Sheen

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2. The former building of St Luke's
School is now an art studio."Kew
Studio" . 24 January 2013. Retrieved
10 October 2017.

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Leyborne Publications. ISBN 978-0-
9520515-3-4.
Blomfield, David; May, Christopher
(2016). Kew at War 1939–1945 (3rd
edition). London: Richmond Local
History Society. ISBN 978-0-9550717-4-
4.
Cloake, John (1995). The Palaces and
Parks of Richmond and Kew 1: The
Palaces of Shene and Richmond.
Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd.
ISBN 978-0850339765.
OCLC 940979634 .
Cloake, John (1996). The Palaces and
Parks of Richmond and Kew 2: Richmond
Lodge and the Kew Palaces. Chichester:
Phillimore & Co Ltd. ISBN 978-
1860770234. OCLC 36045530 . OL
8627654M.
Cloake, John (2001). Cottages and
Common Fields of Richmond and Kew.
Chichester: Phillimore & Co Ltd.
ISBN 978-1860771958.
Members of the Richmond Local History
Society (2019). The Streets of Richmond
 and Kew (3rd edition). London:
Richmond Local History Society.
ISBN 978-1912-314010.
Walford, Edward (1883). "Kew" . Greater
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