Campden Hill

Campden Hill is a hill in Kensington, West London, bounded by Holland Park Avenue on the north, Kensington High Street on the south, Kensington Palace Gardens on the east and Abbotsbury Road on the west. The name derives from the former Campden House, built by Baptist Hicks, 1st Viscount Campden whose country seat was Campden House in the Gloucestershire town of Chipping Campden. The hill contains Holland Park, the former deer-park of Holland House; after being bombed in the London Blitz in 1940, the surviving parts of the mansion house can be seen in the south-west corner of the park. To the east of Holland House, the south-west side of the hill is characterized by large Victorian houses which are part of the Phillimore estate. Aubrey House is situated on top of Campden Hill. Campden Hill Square on the north-west side is formed of large Regency houses. The small street called Campden Hill runs from Campden Hill Road westward into Holland Park. It was built on part of the grounds of the former Bute House. Bute House was built c.1812, and was named after the second Marquess of Bute who lived there from 1830 until 1842. The next occupant was Rt. Hon. William Sebright Lascelles, the third son of the second Earl of Harewood; his widow Lady Caroline Lascelles lived there until 1856. The sixth Duke of Rutland lived there from 1865 until his death in 1888. The last owner was Blundell

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