The Victoria History of Middlesex: Knightsbridge and Hyde

Today's

Knightsbridge is a recent cross-border development. This book breaks new ground

by uncovering an earlier, larger Knightsbridge and showing why its initial

extent and history have been largely forgotten. Pre-1900

Knightsbridge/Westminster included today's Kensington Palace, Kensington

Gardens, almost half of 'South Kensington', and Hyde Park west of the

Serpentine (or river Westbourne). This volume explores why so much of

Knightsbridge has been lost to memory, becoming thought of only in terms of

Westminster, Hyde or (until 1900 entirely wrongly) Kensington.