Ilchester Place, Oakwood Court, Oakwood Lane, Abbotsbury Close
South end
Melbury Road
North
Holland Park (street)
East
Holland Park (park)
South
Melbury Road
West
Abbotsbury Close
Construction
Commissioned
1905
Construction start
c.1924 (houses)
Completion
1960s
Other
Designer
Stone, Toms and Partners (1950s/1960s)
Known for
Holland Park, Tortoises with Triangle and Time
Abbotsbury Road is a residential road in the Holland Park
area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, West London, England.[1]
The road links the street Holland Park to the north with Melbury Road to the south, known for the Holland Park Circle of artists. There is a junction with Ilchester Place to the east. The parkland of Holland Park itself runs along the east side of the street for much of its length, with three entrances to the park.
Houses on Abbotsbury Road
Abbortsbury Road has existed since 1905.[1] The southern part of Abbotsbury Road, named after a Dorset estate belonging to the Earl of Ilchester, was created at the same time as Oakwood Court.[2] Only a few houses were built before World War II (odd Nos 3–9 in c.1924; even Nos 8–10 and 24–28 in the 1930s). During the 1950s and 1960s, there was extensive building in the street. All the houses and flats on the west side of Abbotsbury Road to the north of Oakwood Court (odd Nos 17–137), in the adjoining Abbotsbury Close (Nos 1–66), and Abbotsbury House (a 10-storey block of flats), were built during this period by Wates Limited, designed by Stone, Toms and Partners.[2]
The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Meditation Centre was located in Abbotsbury Road and The Beatles visited in 1967.[1][3]
Tortoises with Triangle and Time with Abbotsbury Road in the background
At the northern end in the park, installed in 2000, is the outdoor sculpture Tortoises with Triangle and Time by Wendy Taylor, commissioned by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for the Millennium.[4]
^ abc"Abbotsbury Road, W14". The Underground Map. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
^ ab"The Holland estate: Since 1874". Survey of London. Vol. 37, Northern Kensington. London: London County Council / British History Online. 1973. pp. 126–150. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
^"Sorry You Missed the Sixties at The Playboy Club". The Telegraph. UK. 3 April 2012.
^"Tortoises with Triangle and Time". Art UK. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
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(1915) edition of Jan Stewer's Devonshire Book. Mystery. 1908–1913; 38 AbbotsburyRoad, Newton Abbot. In October 1907, Coles offered to write a "musical comedy...
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activity programs for children. In the northwest of the park near AbbotsburyRoad, installed in 2000, is the outdoor sculpture Tortoises with Triangle...
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sited across the fields a mile from the village on the Weymouth to Abbotsburyroad, because the railway could not buy the land needed to build the station...
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High Street on the south, Kensington Palace Gardens on the east and AbbotsburyRoad on the west. The name derives from the former Campden House, built...
by local publications such as the Dorset Echo. The trail starts on AbbotsburyRoad in Westham, Weymouth and ends at Ferrybridge in Wyke Regis. The latter...
The Abbotsbury Railway was a standard gauge railway line which ran in the west of the county of Dorset in England opening in 1885. Although great hopes...
regenerated 8 acres (32,000 m2) of land on the Ilchester Estate in AbbotsburyRoad and St Mary Abbots Terrace on Kensington High Street.[citation needed]...
platform is still located next to the site of the level crossing over AbbotsburyRoad. R.V.J. Butt (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations. Patrick Stephens...
not far from an underbridge carrying the line across the Weymouth to Abbotsburyroad at a skew angle. Just to the east of the station an incline provided...
Bridport in the 1930s. Then lost in the 1950s were the branch lines to Abbotsbury and Portland. The Beeching Axe of the 1960s led to the closure of other...
The first, John Gibbons, said that the Squires had visited his house in Abbotsbury "with handkerchiefs, lawns, muslins, and checks, to sell about town" from...
Weymouth Anticline, the coastal escarpment between Burton Bradstock and Abbotsbury, and inland as far as Bothenhampton, where they disappear below younger...
kilometres (630 mi). Portland is unusual as it is connected to the mainland at Abbotsbury by Chesil Beach, a tombolo which runs 29 kilometres (18 mi) north-west...
attacks go on. But such incidents are very rare, says John Huston of the Abbotsbury Swannery in Dorset, where there are 1,000 swans but no recorded attacks...
the English Channel near Portesham in Dorset, England, on the road between Abbotsbury and Martinstown. It was restored in 1900 by his descendants and...
such as, Bossley Park (85%), Grasmere (82.3%), Theresa Park (81.1%), Abbotsbury (81%) and Horsley Park (79.6%), with the most popular denominations being...
at King Road, Fairfield West, to the Liverpool to Parramatta T-way at Myrtle Road, and to the Prospect Dam to Abbotsbury cyclepath at Abbotsbury. An attraction...
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