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Ham Common, London

Index Ham Common, London

Ham Common is an area of common land in Ham, London. [1]

76 relations: A307 road, Alcott House, Algernon Tollemache, Almshouse, Avenue (landscape), Barnes Common, Betula pendula, Beverley Brook, Bracken, Bramble, Bridle path, Cassel Hospital, Charles I of England, Climax community, Common land, Common toad, Commons Act, Culvert, Deed of gift, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Earl of Dysart, Edward Clarke (barrister), English Civil War, Ham and Petersham Cricket Club, Ham House, Ham Urban District, Ham, London, Heath, Henry Labouchère, House of Commons of the United Kingdom, Ilex aquifolium, Irish Travellers, James Gowan, James Stirling (architect), Kingston upon Thames, Langham House Close, Langham House, Ham, Latchmere House, List of agriculture ministries, Local and personal Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom, Local nature reserve, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, Malt house, Manorial court, National school (England and Wales), Natural England, Nicholas Lane, Oliver Cromwell, Ormeley Lodge, Pioneer species, ..., Protected area, Putney Debates, Quercus robur, Richmond Golf Club, Richmond Hill, London, Richmond Park, Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902, Roehampton, Romani people, Royal assent, Select committee (United Kingdom), Solicitor General for England and Wales, St Andrew's Church, Ham, St Thomas Aquinas Church, Ham, Sudbrook (stream), Sudbrook Park, Petersham, Surrey Comet, Symphoricarpos, Taxus baccata, The Daily Telegraph, Tollemache family, Traveling carnival, Ulex europaeus, Vestry, Village green, William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart. Expand index (26 more) »

A307 road

The A307 road runs through SW London and NW Surrey.

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Alcott House

Alcott House in Ham, Surrey (now in Richmond in Greater London), was the home of a utopian spiritual community and progressive school which lasted from 1838 to 1848.

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Algernon Tollemache

Algernon Gray Tollemache (24 September 1805 – 16 January 1892, London) was a British gentleman and politician.

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Almshouse

An almshouse (also known as a poorhouse) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community.

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Avenue (landscape)

In landscaping, an avenue, or allée, is traditionally a straight path or road with a line of trees or large shrubs running along each side, which is used, as its Latin source venire ("to come") indicates, to emphasize the "coming to," or arrival at a landscape or architectural feature.

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Barnes Common

Barnes Common is common land in the south east of Barnes, London, England, adjoining Putney Lower Common to the east and bounded to the south by the Upper Richmond Road.

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Betula pendula

Betula pendula, commonly known as silver birch, warty birch, European white birch, or East Asian white birch, is a species of tree in the family Betulaceae, native to Europe and parts of Asia, though in southern Europe it is only found at higher altitudes.

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Beverley Brook

Beverley Brook is a minor English river long in southwest London.

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Bracken

Bracken (Pteridium) is a genus of large, coarse ferns in the family Dennstaedtiaceae.

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Bramble

In British English, a "bramble" is any rough (usually wild) tangled prickly shrub—specifically the blackberry bush (Rubus fruticosus)—or any hybrid of similar appearance, with thorny stems.

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Bridle path

A bridle path, also bridleway, equestrian trail, horse riding path, ride, bridle road, or horse trail, is a path, trail or a thoroughfare that is used by people riding on horses.

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Cassel Hospital

The Cassel Hospital was founded and endowed by Ernest Cassel in England in 1919.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Climax community

In ecology, climax community, or climatic climax community, is a historic term for a biological community of plants, animals, and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession in the development of vegetation in an area over time, have reached a steady state.

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Common land

Common land is land owned collectively by a number of persons, or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect wood, or to cut turf for fuel.

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Common toad

The common toad, European toad, or in Anglophone parts of Europe, simply the toad (Bufo bufo, from Latin bufo "toad"), is an amphibian found throughout most of Europe (with the exception of Ireland, Iceland, and some Mediterranean islands), in the western part of North Asia, and in a small portion of Northwest Africa.

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Commons Act

Commons Act is a stock short title used in the United Kingdom for legislation relating to commons.

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Culvert

A culvert is a structure that allows water to flow under a road, railroad, trail, or similar obstruction from one side to the other side.

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Deed of gift

A deed of gift is a signed legal document that voluntarily and without recompense transfers ownership of real, personal, or intellectual property – such as a gift of materials – from one person or institution to another.

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is the government department responsible for environmental protection, food production and standards, agriculture, fisheries and rural communities in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Earl of Dysart

Earl of Dysart (pronounced) is a title in the Peerage of Scotland.

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Edward Clarke (barrister)

Sir Edward George Clarke QC (15 February 1841 – 26 April 1931) was a British barrister and politician, considered one of the leading advocates of the late Victorian era and serving as Solicitor-General in the Conservative government of 1886–1892.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians ("Roundheads") and Royalists ("Cavaliers") over, principally, the manner of England's governance.

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Ham and Petersham Cricket Club

Ham and Petersham Cricket Club was established in 1815.

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Ham House

Ham House is a historic house with formal gardens set back 200 metres from the River Thames in Ham, south of Richmond in London.

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Ham Urban District

Ham was a local government district in north east Surrey, England around the village of Ham from 1894 to 1933.

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Ham, London

Ham is a suburban district in south-west London which has meadows adjoining the River Thames where the Thames Path National Trail also runs.

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Heath

A heath is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and is characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation.

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Henry Labouchère

Henry Du Pré Labouchère (9 November 1831 – 15 January 1912) was an English politician, writer, publisher and theatre owner in the Victorian and Edwardian eras.

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House of Commons of the United Kingdom

The House of Commons is the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Ilex aquifolium

Ilex aquifolium (holly, common holly, English holly, European holly, or occasionally Christmas holly), is a species of holly native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia.

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Irish Travellers

Irish Travellers (an lucht siúil, meaning 'the walking people') are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group who maintain a set of traditions.

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James Gowan

James Gowan (18 October 1923 – 12 June 2015) was a Scottish-born architect known for his post-modernist designs of the "engineering style" which influenced a generation of British architects.

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James Stirling (architect)

Sir James Frazer Stirling (22 April 1926 – 25 June 1992) was a British architect.

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Kingston upon Thames

Kingston upon Thames, also known as Kingston, is an area in the southwest of Greater London, England, southwest of Charing Cross.

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Langham House Close

Langham House Close on Ham Common in Ham, London is a development of three Grade II* listed buildings designed in 1955 by the British architects James Gowan and James Stirling.

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Langham House, Ham

Langham House is a grade II-listed house facing Ham Common, London, built in about 1709 and former home of several notable residents.

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Latchmere House

Latchmere House is a building and grounds adjacent to Ham Common in the Ham area of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south west London, England.

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List of agriculture ministries

An agriculture ministry (also called an agriculture department, agriculture board, agriculture council, or agriculture agency, or ministry of rural development) is a ministry charged with agriculture.

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Local and personal Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom

Private Acts are laws in the United Kingdom which apply to a particular individual or group of individuals, or corporate entity.

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Local nature reserve

Local nature reserve (LNR) is a designation for nature reserves in Great Britain.

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London Borough of Richmond upon Thames

The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in southwest London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London borough on both sides of the River Thames.

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Malt house

A malt house, or maltings, is a building where cereal grain is converted into malt by soaking it in water, allowing it to sprout and then drying it to stop further growth.

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Manorial court

The manorial courts were the lowest courts of law in England during the feudal period.

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National school (England and Wales)

A National school was a school founded in 19th-century England and Wales by the National Society for Promoting Religious Education.

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Natural England

Natural England is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Nicholas Lane

Nicholas Lane was an English surveyor and cartographer, active in the early part of the seventeenth century, rising to prominence in his works for King Charles I. Lane's early work included a plan of Oxdownes, Cobham, Surrey dated 1618, a copy of which is held in the Surrey History Centre.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English military and political leader.

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Ormeley Lodge

Ormeley Lodge is an early 18th-century Georgian house set in on the edge of Ham Common near to Richmond Park in Ham, London.

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Pioneer species

Pioneer species are hardy species which are the first to colonize previously biodiverse steady-state ecosystems.

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Protected area

Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values.

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Putney Debates

The Putney Debates were a series of discussions between members of the New Model Army – a number of the participants being Levellers – concerning the makeup of a new constitution for Britain.

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Quercus robur

Quercus robur, commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.

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Richmond Golf Club

The Richmond Golf Club is a private golf club whose 18-hole course now occupies the historic Sudbrook Park adjacent to Richmond Park, in Petersham, south west London.

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Richmond Hill, London

Richmond Hill in Richmond, London is a hill that rises gently on its northern side from the ancient Thames meadowlands around the site of Richmond Palace up to and slightly beyond the Richmond Gate entrance to Richmond Park, the former royal hunting grounds enclosed by Charles I. The descent southwestwards from this point back down to the upstream meadows is noticeably steeper, although the down gradient is less marked on its southerly and easterly progress through the park itself.

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Richmond Park

Richmond Park, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, was created by Charles I in the 17th century as a deer park.

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Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902

The Richmond, Petersham and Ham Open Spaces Act 1902 was enacted to protect the view from Richmond Hill, London.

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Roehampton

Roehampton is a suburban district in southwest London, forming the western end of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

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Romani people

The Romani (also spelled Romany), or Roma, are a traditionally itinerant ethnic group, living mostly in Europe and the Americas and originating from the northern Indian subcontinent, from the Rajasthan, Haryana, Punjab and Sindh regions of modern-day India and Pakistan.

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Royal assent

Royal assent or sanction is the method by which a country's monarch (possibly through a delegated official) formally approves an act of that nation's parliament.

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Select committee (United Kingdom)

In British politics, parliamentary select committees can be appointed from the House of Commons, like the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, from the House of Lords, like the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee, or as a "Joint Committee" drawn from both, such as the Joint Committee on Human Rights.

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Solicitor General for England and Wales

Her Majesty's Solicitor General for England and Wales, known informally as the Solicitor General, is one of the Law Officers of the Crown, and the deputy of the Attorney General, whose duty is to advise the Crown and Cabinet on the law.

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St Andrew's Church, Ham

St Andrew's Church, Ham, is a Grade II listed Church of England church on Church Road, Ham Common in Ham, London.

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St Thomas Aquinas Church, Ham

St Thomas Aquinas Church, Ham is a Roman Catholic church on Ham Street on the western corner of Ham Common, Ham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.

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Sudbrook (stream)

Sudbrook and its tributary, the Latchmere stream, are streams that drain the areas of north Kingston upon Thames, Ham and Petersham following the course of a meander scar in a terrace of the River Thames.

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Sudbrook Park, Petersham

Sudbrook Park, in Petersham, was developed by John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll in the early 18th century.

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Surrey Comet

The Surrey Comet is a weekly local newspaper covering the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, in South West London, and surrounding areas.

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Symphoricarpos

Symphoricarpos, commonly known as the snowberry, waxberry, or ghostberry, is a small genus of about 15 species of deciduous shrubs in the honeysuckle family, Caprifoliaceae.

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Taxus baccata

Taxus baccata is a conifer native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa, northern Iran and southwest Asia.

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The Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph, commonly referred to simply as The Telegraph, is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally.

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Tollemache family

The Tollemache family (also historically spelt Talmach or Tallemache) is an English noble family, originally from Suffolk.

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Traveling carnival

A traveling carnival (US English), usually simply called a carnival, or travelling funfair is an amusement show that may be made up of amusement rides, food vendors, merchandise vendors, games of chance and skill, thrill acts, and animal acts.

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Ulex europaeus

Ulex europaeus (gorse, common gorse, furze or whin) is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to portions of Europe from the northern United Kingdom south to Portugal, and from the western Republic of Ireland east to Galicja in Poland and Ukraine.

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Vestry

A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government for a parish in England and Wales, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry".

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Village green

A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement.

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William Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart

William John Manners Tollemache, 9th Earl of Dysart DL (3 March 1859 – 22 November 1935) in the Peerage of Scotland, was also a Baronet (cr.1793) in the Baronetage of Great Britain, Lord Lieutenant of Rutland (1881–1906), and Justice of the Peace for Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_Common,_London

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