Campden Hill Road is a street in Kensington, London W8. It runs north to south from Notting Hill Gate to Kensington High Street.
Campden Hill Road is a street in Kensington, London W8. It runs north to south from Notting Hill Gate to Kensington High Street.
Campden Hill Road was originally called Plough Lane. [1] By 1879, William Abbott, a stockbroker, "held the lease of the site between Phillimore Walk, Campden Hill Road, and Hornton Street". [2]
Notable residents include the novelist Ford Madox Ford (1873–1939) who lived at no 80, the poet Cecil Day-Lewis, with his children, including the actor Sir Daniel Day-Lewis and wife Jill Balcon, and the publisher Andrew White Tuer (1838–1900). Anglo-American landscape painter George Henry Boughton (1834–1905) lived and died at No. 118, West House, in a house built for him.
Kensington Town Hall and the Kensington Central Library are located at the south of the street.
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