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'''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=501-516|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.
'''Norbiton Place''' was bought by [[Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet |Sir John Philipps]], who died here 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]], an African slave 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|
'''Kingston Lodge''', opposite Norbiton Hall, was leased by Novelist [[George Meredith]] in 1865. Disliking the increasing development of the area, he moved away at the end of 1867.<ref>{{cite DNB12|wstitle= Meredith, George|volume=2|pages=604–616}}</ref>
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