Cambridge Cottage

The connection of the House of Hanover with the area dates back to the acquisition of Richmond Lodge by the future George II from the attainted Jacobite Duke of Ormonde in the 1710s.

His grandson George III occupied Kew Palace as his summer residence and his children partly grew up in the area.

[1] Adolphus spent a number of years away from England as Viceroy in Hanover following its 1813 liberation from French occupation.

[3] It later passed to their son George, Duke of Cambridge, a first cousin of Queen Victoria and long-standing Commander in Chief of the British Army.

The building dates back to the early nineteenth century and features a portico entrance facing onto Kew Green.