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CREMORNE GARDENS

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 408 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CREMORNE GARDENS  , formerly a popular resort by the

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side of the
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Thames in
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Chelsea,
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London,
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England . Originally the
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property of the
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earl of
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Huntingdon (c . 1750),
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father of
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Steele's "
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Aspasia," who built a
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mansion here, the property passed through various hands into those of
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Thomas
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Dawson,
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Baron Dartrey and
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Viscount Cremorne (1725-1813), who greatly beautified it . It was subsequently sold and converted into a proprietary
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place of entertainment, being popular as such from 1845 to 1877 . It never, however, acquired the fashionable fame of
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Vauxhall, and finally became so
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great an annoyance to residents in the neighbourhood that a renewal of its
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licence was refused; and the site of the gardens was soon built over . The name survives in Cremorne Road .

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