Mortlake is a suburban district of the

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on the south bank of the

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between Kew and Barnes. Historically it was part of

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and until 1965 was in the

Municipal Borough of Barnes Barnes was a local government district in north west Surrey from 1894 to 1965, when its former area was absorbed into the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. History Barnes was formed as an urban district in 1894 and became a municipal bor ...

. For many centuries it had village status and extended far to the south, to include

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and part of what is now Richmond Park. Its Stuart and Georgian history was economically one of

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, brewing, farming,

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and the Mortlake Tapestry Works (1617–1704), Britain's most important producer. A London landmark, the former Mortlake Brewery or Stag Brewery, is on the edge of Mortlake. The Waterloo to Reading railway line runs through Mortlake, which has a pedestrianised riverside, two riverside

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and a

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. The Boat Race finishes at Mortlake every March/April.

Governance

The area lies within the Mortlake and Barnes Common ward of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. In the 2018 local elections two Conservatives and one Liberal Democrats were elected to represent the ward, with two Liberal Democrats and one

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elected in 2022. The ward is part of the Richmond Park parliamentary constituency, and the

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constituency in the

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. During the

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, Richmond Park voted 69.3% for Remain, with a turnout of 82%.

History

Temple of British Worthies Sir John Barnard

The place-name 'Mortlake' is first attested in the

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of 1086, where it appears as ''Mortelaga'' and ''Mortelage'', a name with two possible derivations. If the second element is the

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''lacu'' meaning a stream, then the first element is very likely the fish-name ''mort'' meaning a young salmon, hence 'salmon stream'. If the second element is the dialect ''lag'' meaning a long, narrow marshy meadow, then the name means 'Morta's meadow'. Mortlake lay in the

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, which faded into obscurity. According to the Domesday Book, the manor and

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of ''Mortlage'' was held by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury when its assets were: 25 hides; 1 church, 2 mills worth £5, 1

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, 33

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s, of

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, wood worth 55 hogs. It rendered a large £38 plus 4 s 4d from 17 houses in

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, 2s 3d from houses in

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and £1 from tolls at Putney per year to its

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overlords. The manor belonged to the

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until the time of

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, when it passed by exchange to the Crown. From the early part of the 17th century until after the

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, Mortlake was celebrated for the manufacture of

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, founded during the reign of

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at the Mortlake Tapestry Works. Mortlake was reduced by when Richmond Park was created by

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in 1637. Other parishes also lost smaller amounts of land to the new deer park. Colston House's forebear was built by

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then acquired by Edward Colston, major benefactor and investor to the port city of

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. This was pulled down in 1860. John Barber, Lord Mayor in 1733, a suspected Jacobite opposed to the 'Georgian'

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but Member of Parliament for the

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on the strength of his opposition to Walpole's protectionist excise scheme, was buried in Mortlake in 1741. He had given land to extend the churchyard. Sir Henry Taylor, KCMG, the dramatic poet, lived in Mortlake in the 19th century. Sir John Barnard,

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in the year 1737 and also an MP, used public addresses and private campaigns to outstanding effect in supporting the government against the Jacobite movement in 1745. Since 1845, the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race has had its finish point at Mortlake, marked by the University Boat Race stone just downstream of Chiswick Bridge. Several other important

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races over the

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also either start or finish at the stone. The first National School in Mortlake was built providing compulsory education at primary level in 1869, followed by an infants school in 1890 and county level, into secondary level school in 1906.

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taught there in the years leading up to his election to Surrey County Council in 1914, when he became the leading figure in the development of education in Surrey; he eventually became

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throughout the

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administration. John Dee memorial plaque at S Mary the Virgin Mortlake

People

Living people

Katherine Jenkins Katherine Maria Jenkins (born 29 June 1980) is a Welsh singer. She is a mezzo-soprano and performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre, and hymns. Tom Hardy, actor, producer, writer and former model, grew up in Mortlake.

Historical figures

Apart from Archbishops of Canterbury, Mortlake's most famous former resident is

John Dee John Dee (13 July 1527 – 1608 or 1609) was an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, teacher, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, a ...

(1527–1608/09),

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astrologer Astrology is a range of divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that claim to discern information about human affairs and terrestrial events by studying the apparent positions of celestial objects. Di ...

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and adviser to Queen

Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". Eli ...

. He lived at Mortlake from 1565 to 1595 except for the six years between 1583 and 1589 when he was travelling in Europe. His house no longer exists but it became the Mortlake Tapestry Works and at the end of the 18th century was a girls' school. Sir Christopher Packe (1593?–1682),

, lived in Mortlake in about 1655–60.

John Partridge (astrologer) John Partridge (1644 – c. 1714) was an English astrologer, the author and publisher of a number of astrological almanacs and books. Life Partridge was born 18 January 1644 ( OS) in East Sheen, Surrey, and died in either 1714 or 1715. Althoug ...

(1644–c.1714) was born at East Sheen and apprenticed to a local shoemaker. He died in Mortlake and is buried there. Edward Colston, the English merchant,

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and

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Member of Parliament who was involved in the

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, lived at (old) Cromwell House (demolished 1857) from about 1689 until his death in 1721. The cemetery of

St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, Mortlake, is a Roman Catholic church in North Worple Way, Mortlake, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The church is dedicated to Jesus' companion Mary Magdalene. The church building, in Gothi ...

contains the

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of the Victorian explorer and orientalist

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(1821–1890). Former British Prime Minister

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(1757–1844) who, as Lord Sidmouth, was Ranger of Richmond Park, and after whom the park's Sidmouth Plantation is named, is buried at St Mary the Virgin Mortlake.

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(1815–1852), English mathematician and writer, lived in Mortlake when she was 15 years old.

Economy

Mortlake is mostly a residential

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with a strong history of self-employed trades as it has traditionally centred its commerce on its foreshortened boundary, the Upper Richmond Road, arguably half part of

. Some businesses on the north side of the Upper Richmond Road make reference to the old ecclesiastical and ward boundaries supported by their still Mortlake side streets.Memories of Mortlake
Retrieved 21 December 2013 East Sheen was once a manor in the parish of Mortlake and since early times an economic forum, and now a dining and convenience hub of the two districts. The

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's volume on Surrey, written from 1910 to 1912, does not list East Sheen as a parish, describes its detailed history under Mortlake and states the parish was "now connected with Barnes on one side and with New Richmond on the other".Mills, Anthony David, ''Oxford Dictionary of London Place Names'' (2001) With the advent of motor transport, the buildings on Mortlake's winding

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, also known as the Lower Mortlake Road, have been mostly residential or used by the brewery.

Stag Brewery or Mortlake Brewery

Watney Combe Reid - the Stag Brewery, Mortlake 1989 - geograph

In the 1840s Charles James Philips and James Wigan acquired Mortlake Brewery, which had existed since the 15th century. In 1889 the brewery was acquired by James Watney & Co., which in 1898 became

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after acquiring Messrs.

Combe Delafield and Co. Combe Delafield and Co. was among the major brewers in London during the nineteenth century, before being acquired by Watney in 1898, thus forming Watney Combe & Reid. The Woodyard Brewery, of Castle Street, Long Acre, situated midway between th ...

and Messrs. Reid and Co. When Watney's Stag Brewery in

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, was demolished in 1959, the name was 30 years later, applied to Mortlake Brewery. Being the last phase of The Boat Race which refers to all the traditional local names, it is still widely referred to as the Mortlake Brewery. The brewery became part of

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, briefly part of

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and was then divested to Anheuser-Busch Europe Ltd as it produced the company's ''Budweiser''

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. In January 2009,

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said that the company was proposing to close the Stag Brewery in 2010 as a result of a merger between InBev and Anheuser-Busch. In November 2015, it was announced that the site had been sold for £158m to Reselton – part of Singapore's City Developments, which also bought the former

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. The brewery closed in December 2015 and there are plans to build 850 apartments on the location.

Mortlake Railway Station – Queen Victoria's Waiting Room

The building next to Mortlake Railway Station, now occupied by a classic car showroom, contains

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's old waiting room which was built for her and Prince Albert to use due to their frequent visits to

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in Richmond Park where their family and latterly their son the Prince of Wales (later

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) were living.

Amenities

Mortlake affords an undistracted view of the river as its riverside promenade is set by its buildings including the former brewery, unlike the embankment style roads along other London banks such as in Barnes until

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. The two large

at either end of the riverside promenade are not

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s: * The White Hart * The Ship Places of worship include: *

* St Mary the Virgin Mortlake (Anglican)

Transport

Bus terminus, North Worple Way - geograph

Adjoining districts

* Barnes *

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( Grove Park, after which is Old Chiswick or

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, depending on direction) *

* Kew

Nearest railway stations

* Mortlake railway station *

North Sheen railway station North Sheen railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in southwest London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. The station, on the eastern edge of Richmond, is named after the North Sheen area which, in 1965, was absorbed by K ...

These are minor stops on the

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which has four branch lines: to Windsor Riverside station, to

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and back to the London terminus via

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. The stations are only served by trains on the latter two lines, as services to Windsor or Reading bypass both. This railway is a narrow bisector of the settlement, being generally on the flat with its streets, which tend to run perpendicular to it. It runs in the middle of Worple Way, separating it into north and south sides.

Demography and housing

To ensure that all the local authority wards have electorates of approximately the same size, the ward covering Mortlake also includes parts of Barnes.

References

External links

Barnes and Mortlake History Society

Mortlake Brewery Community Group

Mortlake Community Association

Mortlake Online

St Mary Magdalen's Church

St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake
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