Canbury is a district of the northern part of Kingston upon Thames that takes its name from the historic manor that covered the area.

The rectory, manor, and advowson then passed, under a settlement, to his widow, who married as her second husband Montague, Lord Willoughby.

On the death of the Countess of Holderness without heirs in 1640, the advowson, rectory, and manor reverted to the Crown estate of King James I.

In 1485–6 it was styled a 'capital messuage' or "manor," and was held of Merton by Robert Skerne, on whose death in that year it passed to Swithin his son.

The expansion was driven by the coming of the railway to the area with the extension of the line from Twickenham to Kingston completed in 1863, then extended to Norbiton in 1869 to its terminus at Ludgate Hill.

The mixed Victorian housing stock that characterises the area today reflects the piecemeal development that occurred during this period.

The poor sanitation of the expanding town was addressed, in part, by 1877 with the construction of sewage works near the river to the north of the railway line, operated on behalf of Kingston Corporation by the Native Guano Company.

Raw sewage was treated using the ABC Process, toasted in huge ovens to produce a garden fertiliser sold as "Native Guano".

Although much of the site has since been redeveloped for retail, leisure, parking and residential use, the gasometers, the last remaining feature of the area, have now been demolished for the Queenshurst development.

The felling of a line of trees that had previously helped screen the power station from the river also aroused much local protest.

[13] The Sopwith Aviation Company expanded from its early beginnings at Brooklands to a former Roller Skating Rink in Canbury Park Road in 1912, drawing on the availability of boatbuilding and coachbuilding skills in the area to scale up aircraft production.

The company and its successors remained there, going on to design and build the Hawker Hurricane fighter of World War II amongst many others.

The Latchmere Recreation Ground was conveyed by William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart and the Dysart Trustees on 23 February 1904 to the Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames, "Kingston Corporation", as part of the settlement of the Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902.

[21][22] This, and the southern half of Ham, was absorbed into Kingston, becoming part of the present day Tudor Ward when the Urban District was abolished in 1933.

[3] The Latchmere Stream, a small watercourse now mostly culverted, that flows south–north along the foot of the hill towards Ham, once marked part of the boundary.