IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Auckland Road, KINGSTON UPON THAMES, KT1 3BQ
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Auckland Road, KT1 3BQ by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (63 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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Margaret Lockwood Close
This short street is named after film and stage star Margaret Lockwood whose career spanned the middle years of the 20th century from 1930 to 1980.
She spent the last years of her life in Kingston.
http://www.silversirens.co.uk/margaret-lockwood/
This is beside the London Loop long distance path.
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 12 Dec 2011
0.02 miles
2
Lower Marsh Lane, near Kingston-upon-Thames
Lower Marsh Lane is a residential road in the outer suburbs of south west London.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 17 Feb 2019
0.04 miles
5
Houses on Villiers Road, Kingston
I've chosen the same row of houses as Nigel at Image, but a few metres further south. Aah - a New Zealand cabbage tree.
Image: © Derek Harper
Taken: 29 May 2016
0.05 miles
6
The Duke of Buckingham, Kingston upon Thames
On the corner of Grove Lane and Villiers Road.
Image: © Robin Webster
Taken: 26 Aug 2012
0.05 miles
7
Margaret Lockwood Close, near Kingston-upon-Thames
Margaret Lockwood Close is part of a small housing development in the outer suburbs of south west London.
Image: © Malc McDonald
Taken: 17 Feb 2019
0.05 miles
8
The Duke of Buckingham, Villiers Road
Both the pub and the road commemorate George Villiers, second Duke of Buckingham, who led a colourful life of military adventuring and Royalist plotting during and after the Civil War.
Adopted and brought up by King Charles 1st, he was in the Royalist army by 1642, aged 14, AFTER having got a degree at Cambridge.
One of his earliest exploits was involvement in The Earl of Holland's insurrection here at Kingston in 1648.
There followed Exile, Romance, Plotting, Imprisonment in The Tower, Successful Comeback, Appointment as Gentleman of The Bedchamber and official Orb Carrier....etc, etc..
All this and more swashbuckling on http://www.british-civil-wars.co.uk/biog/buckingham2.htm
Image: © Des Blenkinsopp
Taken: 12 Dec 2011
0.06 miles
9
The Duke of Buckingham, Kingston
A pub situated on a five-point junction.
Image: © Bill Boaden
Taken: 12 Sep 2013
0.06 miles
