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                                                        Notting Hill
                                                   Shepherd’s  SOUTH
                                                    Bush     KENSINGTON &
                                                            KNIGHTSBRIDGE
                                                      KENSINGTON &
                                                      HOLLAND PARK
       No. 16
       Phillimore                                          Earl's
       Place was home to                           Kensington  Court
                                                    West
       the author of the children’s                Locator Map
       classic The Wind in the Willows,            See Central London Map pp16–17
       from 1901 until 1908.
              Kensington Church Street
                  has high-end antique
                shops and this gloriously
                    floral real-ale pub.        D
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                                    I                      Kensington High
                                  H                         Street station


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                     N               Kensington Civic Centre,   Suggested route
                   I
                 S                   an assertive modern
               N                     building by Sir Basil Spence,
             E
           K                         was completed in 1976.
               0 metres   100
               0 yards   100
            5 18 Stafford Terrace
            has a superb, carefully
            preserved late Victorian
            interior, complete with original
            furnishings and draperies.
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          Sticky Fingers, a lively café
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          on the corner of Phillimore
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          Gardens, is owned by Bill   Drayson Mews is one of the quaint alleys that were built behind
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          Wyman, former guitarist of    large town houses for the stabling of horses and coaches. Today
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          the Rolling Stones.  most have been converted into small houses.
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