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Elgin Crescent is a street in
Notting Hill Notting Hill is a district of West London, England, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Notting Hill is known for being a wikt:cosmopolitan, cosmopolitan and multiculturalism, multicultural neighbourhood, hosting the annual Notting ...
, London, England. It runs west from
Portobello Road is a street in the Notting Hill district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London. It runs almost the length of Notting Hill from South to North, roughly parallel with Ladbroke Grove. On Saturdays it is home to Portobello ...
, crosses
Ladbroke Grove Ladbroke Grove ( ) is a road in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, London, England, which passes through Kensal Green and Notting Hill, running north–south between Harrow Road and Holland Park Avenue. It is also the name of the sur ...
and at its south-western end joins Clarendon Road. The section between Portobello Road and Kensington Park Road is formed of shops, cafes and restaurants, whilst the remainder is residential. The houses were built in the 1850s and 1860s, and most share communal gardens. Many are now
listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building is a structure of particular architectural or historic interest deserving of special protection. Such buildings are placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Hi ...
s. East of Ladbroke Grove, it was originally called Elgin Road. It is named after the town of
Elgin Elgin may refer to: Places Canada * Elgin County, Ontario * Elgin Settlement, a 19th-century community for freed slaves located in present-day North Buxton and South Buxton, Ontario * Elgin, a village in Rideau Lakes, Ontario * Elgin, Manit ...
in Scotland.


Notable residents

* 60 –
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(1889–1964), First Prime Minister of India, lived there 1910–12 * 79 – Sir
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(1908–1986), cartoonist, born there * 86 – Sir
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(1907–1989), actor and director, lived there 1910–14 * 95 –
Katherine Mansfield Kathleen Mansfield Murry (née Beauchamp; 14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923) was a New Zealand writer and critic who was an important figure in the Literary modernism, modernist movement. Her works are celebrated across the world and have been ...
, New Zealand born short-story writer * 98 -
Margaret Fairchild Margaret Mary Fairchild (4 January 1911 – 28 April 1989), also known as Mary Teresa Sheppard, Miss Shepherd and M T Sheppard, was a British homeless woman. Her life was depicted in the 2015 film ''The Lady in the Van'' by Alan Bennett in whi ...
(1911–1989), aka Miss Shepherd - The Lady in the Van - lived here in the 1950s with her mother * 106 – John Alexander Fladgate (1809–1901), a
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merchant, lived and died there * 121 – Amy Clarke (1892–1980), mystical poet and writer, born there *
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, prime minister of the United Kingdom (former resident) *
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, journalist and author *
Sax Rohmer Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was an English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Fu Manchu."Rohmer, Sax" by Jack Adrian in David ...
, author, creator of Dr Fu Manchu * General Sir
Hugh Stockwell General (United Kingdom), General Sir Hugh Charles Stockwell, (16 June 1903 – 27 November 1986) was a senior British Army officer most remembered for commanding the Anglo-French ground forces during the Suez Crisis and his service as Deputy Su ...
lived there


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{{Coord, 51, 30, 51, N, 00, 12, 29, W, scale:1563_region:GB, display=title Notting Hill Streets in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea