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West of the Centre here to Marble Hill House and
Orleans House at Twickenham.
x Orleans
House Gallery
Orleans Rd, Twickenham. Tel 020 8831
6000. 1 3 St Margaret’s or
Richmond then bus 33, 90, 290, R68 or
R70. Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun.
Closed between exhibitions, and
occasionally for private events;
1 Jan, Good Fri, 24–26 Dec. Gardens
Open 9am–dusk daily. 7 ground
floor. - = ∑ richmond.gov.uk/
orleans_house_gallery
This gallery is on the site of
the original Orleans House,
Ham House named after Louis Philippe,
Duke of Orleans, who lived
k Richmond Park king, staying in Richmond there from 1815 to 1817. The
Palace, awaited the signal that Octagon Room was designed
Kingston Vale SW15. Tel 0300 061
2200. 1 3 Richmond then bus 65 his former wife, Anne Boleyn, had by James Gibbs for James
or 71. Open 24 hours (7:30am–8pm been executed. The Palladian Johnson in 1720. The gallery
Nov & Feb. 7 0 - White Lodge, built in 1729, is hosts temporary exhibitions
∑ royalparks.org.uk home to the Royal Ballet School. throughout the year.
In 1637, Charles I built a 13-km
(8-mile) wall round Richmond l Hampton Court
Park to enclose the royal park as See pp260–63.
a hunting ground. Today the
park is a national nature reserve
and deer still graze warily z Ham House
among the chestnuts, birches Ham St, Richmond. Tel 020 8940 1950.
and oaks, no longer hunted but 1 3 Richmond then bus 65 or 371.
still discreetly culled. They have Open Mar–early Oct: noon–4pm
learned to coexist with the daily; mid-Oct–Feb: for tours only
thousands of human visitors who (arrange in advance). Closed 1 Jan, 24
stroll here on fine weekends. & 25 Dec. & 8 by appt. 7 partial.
In late spring, the park’s high- - = Gardens, café and shop:
light is the Isabella Plantation Open 10am–5pm daily.
with its spectacular display of ∑ nationaltrust.org.uk
azaleas, while the nearby Pen Marble Hill House
Ponds are popular with optimistic This magnificent house by the
anglers. (Adam’s Pond is for Thames was built in 1610, but c Marble Hill
model boats.) The rest of the its heyday came when it was House
park is covered with heath, home to the Duke of Lauderdale,
bracken and trees (some of confidant to Charles II and Richmond Rd, Twickenham.
them hundreds of years old). Secretary of State for Scotland. Tel 020 8892 5115. 3 St Margaret’s.
Richmond Gate, in the northwest His wife, the Countess of Open Apr–Oct: by guided tour only,
corner, was designed by the Dysart, inherited it from her Sat & Sun (several daily, phone or visit
website to check). Closed Nov–Mar.
landscape gardener Capability father, who had been Charles I’s & 7 restricted. ^ - = Park:
Brown in 1798. Nearby is Henry “whipping boy” (he took the Open daily 7am–7pm.
VIII Mound, where in 1536 the punishment for the future ∑ english-heritage.org.uk
king’s misdemeanours). From
1672, the Duke and Countess Built in 1729 for George II’s
modernized the house, and mistress, Henrietta Howard,
it was regarded as one of the house and its grounds
Britain’s finest. The garden has have been open to the public
been restored to its since 1903. Fully restored to its
17th-century form. Georgian appearance, the house
On some days in summer, a has a collection of paintings by
Deer in Richmond Park foot passenger ferry runs from William Hogarth and a view of

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