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Petersham is a village in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the east of the bend in the River Thames south of Richmond, which it shares with neighbouring Ham. It provides the foreground of the scenic view from Richmond Hill across Petersham Meadows , with Ham House further along the river.
Skye Gyngell (born 6 September 1963) is an Australian chef who is best known for her work as food editor for Vogue, and for winning a Michelin star at the Petersham Nurseries Cafe. She first trained as a chef in France, and afterwards moved to Britain.
Petersham Lodge is a Grade II listed [1] house on River Lane, Petersham in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Rebuilt in the early 18th century for Catherine Douglas, Duchess of Queensberry , [ 1 ] it is a former grace-and-favour mansion.
The future "Old Pretender" was brought to Richmond Palace in 1688 with his wet-nurse after his father, James II, had ordered the reconstruction of part of the palace as the royal nursery. [99] Mary I and her consort, Philip II of Spain: 1516–1558 1527–1598: Queen of England and Ireland 1553–1558
There had been a borough called Richmond since 1890 when the Municipal Borough of Richmond was created. [3] It was enlarged in 1892 to include Kew, Petersham and North Sheen, and again in 1933 to include Ham.
Ham lies within the London Basin and its London clay bedrock.The low-lying flood plains to the west consist of fluvial gravels, sands and clay.To the east, within Richmond Park, a more erosion-resistant fluvio-glacial deposit of gravels laid down in the interglacial period between 240,000 and 400,000 years ago forms the escarpment ridge that runs north–south between the Richmond and Kingston ...
Their second son Algernon died in 1915 and is buried at St Peter's Church, Petersham. [5] The house's link to the Earls of Dysart, to whom Townshend, Sinclair and Hanbury-Tracy had all been connected by marriage, was broken in 1949 when the Tollemache family auctioned the Ham estates. Ormeley Lodge was purchased by antique dealer Ronald Lee.
The house was originally known as Hall Place or Petersham Place until acquiring its present name in the 1890s. Some sources state that the house was built in about 1680 but the manorial rolls that record of sale of the plot of land on which it stands during the late 17th century do not mention a building until 2 May 1717 when they record the sale of land and "brick messuage etc. built by ...