Norbiton: Difference between revisions

{{infobox UK place|

| static_image_name = File:St Peter's Church, Norbiton housing- geograph.jpgorg.uk - 2163920.jpg

| static_image_caption =Towers of the 1970s Cambridge= St RoadPeter's estateChurch

| country = = England

| map_type = = Greater London

| region = London

| population = 10,107

| population_ref = (2011 Census. Ward)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13688916&c=Norbiton&d=14&e=62&g=6331860&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1476183282172&enc=1|title=Kingston Ward population 2011|access-date=11 October 2016|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics }}</ref>

| official_name= = Norbiton

| os_grid_reference= = TQ195695

| london_borough= = Kingston

| post_town= = [[Kingston upon Thames]]

| postcode_area= = KT

| postcode_district = KT1, KT2

| dial_code= = 020

| constituency_westminster = [[Kingston and Surbiton (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston and Surbiton]]

| coordinates = {{coord|51.41194|-0.28311|display=inline,title}}

'''Norbiton''' is an area within the [[Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames]], London. It lies approximately {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} east of [[Kingston upon Thames]] town centre, and {{convert|11|mi|km|1}} from [[Charing Cross]]. Its main landmarks include [[Kingston Hospital]] and, [[Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames|Kingsmeadow]] football stadium, whichKingston is currently used for the home matches of both [[AFC Wimbledon]]Cemetery and [[Chelsea F.C. Women]]. St Peter's [[Church of England parish church|Anglican parish church]] which serves the area.

'''Norbiton Hall''', a manor from the 16th century. Residents included [[Richard Taverner]], who lived there 1547–75 and [[Anthony Benn (Recorder of London)|Sir Anthony Benn]], 1605–18. In 1829, the Surrey MP [[Charles Nicholas Pallmer|Charles Pallmer]] sold the estate to [[Mary Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool|Mary, Countess of Liverpool]], widow of the late prime minister [[Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool|Lord Liverpool]].<ref name=Malden>{{cite book|last=Malden|first=H.E.|title=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3|year= 1911|publisher=Victoria County History, London, 1911|pages=501-516501–516|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp501-516}} Accessed 30 March 2020</ref> It was finally demolished in the 1930s to make way for a complex of flats, also called Norbiton Hall. These flats were built between 1933 and 1935 and received local listing in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://moderngov.kingston.gov.uk/documents/s78824/Annex%201%20-%20Norbiton%20Hall-Heritage%20Assessment%202018.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202155312/https://moderngov.kingston.gov.uk/documents/s78824/Annex%201%20-%20Norbiton%20Hall-Heritage%20Assessment%202018.pdf |archive-date=2021-12-02 |url-status=live|title=Norbiton Hall: Heritage assessment for designation as locally listed building with inclusion in the local list of Building of Townscape Merit (BTM)|author=Elisabetta Tonazzi|date=February 2018|accessdate=2021-12-02}}</ref>

'''Norbiton Place''' was bought by [[Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet |Sir John Philipps]], who died herethere in 1764.<ref name=Prosser>{{cite book|last= Prosser |first= G.F.|title=Select Illustrations of the County of Surrey |year= 1828|publisher= Rivington, London.|url= https://archive.org/details/selectillustrat00prosgoog}} Accessed 9 April 2020</ref> One of the family's servants was [[Cesar Picton]], originally an African slave, he was brought to England aged six in 1761. He lived at Norbiton Place for nearly thirty years, before becoming a successful coal-merchant in Kingston.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1080069|desc=Picton House, Kingston upon Thames|access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref><br> In the early 1800s Norbiton Place became the main residence of [[Charles Nicholas Pallmer|Charles Pallmer]], owner of neighbouring Norbiton Hall.<ref name=Malden/> Pallmer greatly developed the estate, including adding a dairy styled like an Indian temple and a lodge in the form of a doric temple.<ref name=Prosser/> Living above his means, Pallmer was declared [[Bankruptcy|bankrupt]] in 1831.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18798|page=807|date=26 April 1831}}</ref> Much of the main house was pulled down after 1830,<ref name=Malden/> with St Peter's Church built on part of the grounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://southwark.anglican.org/find-a-church/kingston/norbiton-st-peter&gt|title=St Peter's Church|access-date=3 June 2020|publisher=Diocese of Southwark}}</ref>

Norbiton's housing stock largely consists of large [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian architecture|Edwardian]] family houses, plus small localised brownfield redevelopments of 1960s, 1980s and modern flats. It contains more council and [[social housing]] than most other areas of Kingston – one of the largest such sites, the Cambridge Road Estateestate, was used as a fictional [[council estate]] in TV drama ''[[The Bill]]'', as well as the BBC sitcom ''[[Some Girls (TV series)|Some Girls]]''. ItIn is2020 homeplans alsowere agreed to Kingstonregenerate Cemeterythe Cambridge Road estate, including demolishing 865 existing homes and building 2,170 new ones.<ref>{{Cite news|last= Jenkinson |first=Orlando |date=20 March 2020 |title=Residents back Cambridge Road estate regeneration |url= https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/18321736.residents-back-cambridge-road-estate-regeneration/ |access-date=4 May 2018|work=[[Surrey Comet]]}}</ref> Homes on Bonnerthe Hillrenewed estate will obtain [[District heating|heating]] by a process that turns treated sewage into clean energy, the first such scheme in England.<ref>{{Cite news|last= Ambrose |first=Jillian |date=26 February 2021 |title=Thames Water hopes to harness human 'poo power' to heat homes |url= https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/26/thames-water-hopes-to-harness-human-poo-power-to-heat-homes |access-date=4 May 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

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