Mortlake is a suburban district of the

London Borough of Richmond upon Thames The London Borough of Richmond upon Thames () in south-west Greater London, London, England, forms part of Outer London and is the only London boroughs, London borough on both sides of the River Thames. It was created in 1965 when three smaller ...

on the south bank of the

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between

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and

Barnes Barnes may refer to: People *Barnes (name), a family name and a given name (includes lists of people with that name) Places United Kingdom * Barnes, London, England ** Barnes railway station **Barnes Bridge railway station ** Barnes High Stree ...

. 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 The parish of Barnes adopted the Local Government Act 1858 in 1893. It be ...

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

East Sheen East Sheen, also known as Sheen, is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its long High Street, high street has shops, offices, restaurants, cafés, pubs and suburban supermarkets and is also the economic ...

and part of what is now

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. Its

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and Georgian history was economically one of

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, brewing, farming,

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and the

Mortlake Tapestry Works The Mortlake Tapestry Works was established alongside the River Thames at Mortlake, then outside, but now in South West London, in 1619 by Sir Francis Crane. It produced lighter, if vastly more expensive, decoration for rooms than the previous ...

(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

pubs A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption Licensing laws of the United Kingdom#On-licence, on the premises. The term first appeared in England in the ...

and a

village green A village green is a commons, common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common pasture, grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for ...

The Boat Race The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between open-weight eights on the River Thames in London, England. It is also known as the U ...

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

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and one Liberal Democrats were elected to represent the ward, with two Liberal Democrats and one

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elected in

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. The ward is part of the

parliamentary constituency, and the

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constituency in the

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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

Old English Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...

''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

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worth £5, 1

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, 33

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s, of

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, wood worth 55

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. 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 Putney () is an affluent district in southwest London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, southwest of Charing Cross. The area is identified in the London Plan as one of 35 major centres in Greater London. History Putney is an ...

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

tapestry Tapestry is a form of Textile arts, textile art which was traditionally Weaving, woven by hand on a loom. Normally it is used to create images rather than patterns. Tapestry is relatively fragile, and difficult to make, so most historical piece ...

, founded during the reign of

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at the

. 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 Thomas Cromwell, Earl of Essex then acquired by

Edward Colston Edward Colston (2 November 1636 – 11 October 1721) was an English merchant, Atlantic slave trade, slave trader, philanthropy, philanthropist and Tories (British political party), Tory Member of Parliament. Colston followed his father in th ...

, 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 John Edward Barnard, (born 4 May 1946) is an English engineer and racing car designer. Barnard is credited with the introduction of two new designs into Formula One: the carbon fibre composite chassis first seen in with McLaren, and the sem ...

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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 The Boat Race is an annual set of rowing (sport), rowing races between the Cambridge University Boat Club and the Oxford University Boat Club, traditionally rowed between open-weight eight (rowing), eights on the River Thames in London, Englan ...

has had its finish point at Mortlake, marked by the University Boat Race stone just downstream of

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. Several other important

rowing Rowing is the act of propelling a human-powered watercraft using the sweeping motions of oars to displace water and generate reactional propulsion. Rowing is functionally similar to paddling, but rowing requires oars to be mechanically a ...

races over the

Championship Course The Championship Course is a stretch of the River Thames between Mortlake and Putney in London, England. It is a well-established course for sport rowing, rowing races, particularly the The Boat Race, Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race. The course ...

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.

James Chuter Ede James Chuter Chuter-Ede, Baron Chuter-Ede, (; 11 September 1882 – 11 November 1965), was a British teacher, trade unionist and Labour Party politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for 32 years, and served as the sole Home Secretary u ...

taught there in the years leading up to his election to

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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 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, teacher, astrologer, occultist, and alchemist. He was the court astronomer for, and advisor to, Elizabeth I, and spent much of his time on alchemy, divination, ...

(1527–1608/09),

mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...

astronomer An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers observe astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, natural satellite, moons, comets and galaxy, galax ...

astrologer Astrology is a range of Divination, divinatory practices, recognized as pseudoscientific since the 18th century, that propose that information about human affairs and terrestrial events may be discerned by studying the apparent positions ...

alchemist Alchemy (from the Arabic word , ) is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. In its Western form, alchemy is first ...

and adviser to Queen

Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish monarchs, Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudo ...

. 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

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 – ) 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. Although star ...

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

, the English merchant,

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and

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Member of Parliament who was involved in the

Atlantic slave trade The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of Slavery in Africa, enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Pass ...

, 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 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

, and after whom the park's Sidmouth Plantation is named, is buried at St Mary the Virgin Mortlake.

Ada Lovelace Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (''née'' Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-pur ...

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

Stag Brewery or Mortlake Brewery

Turner Mortlake Terrace Early Summer Morning 1826

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

Watney Combe & Reid Watney Combe & Reid was a leading brewery in London. At its peak in the 1930s it was a constituent of the FT 30 index of leading companies on the London Stock Exchange. It produced Watney's Red Barrel. History The Watney family were the m ...

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 the ...

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

which refers to all the traditional local names, it is still widely referred to as the Mortlake Brewery. The brewery became part of

Scottish Courage Scottish & Newcastle plc was a brewing company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland, which expanded from its home base to become an international business with beer volumes growing almost tenfold. The company was listed on the London Stock Exc ...

, briefly part of

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

pale lager Pale lager is a pale-to- golden lager beer with a well- attenuated body and a varying degree of noble hop bitterness. In the mid-19th century, Gabriel Sedlmayr took British pale ale brewing and malt making techniques back to the Spaten Bre ...

. In January 2009,

Anheuser-Busch InBev Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV, known as AB InBev, is an American-Belgian Multinational corporation, multinational Drink industry, drink and brewing company, brewing company based in Leuven, Belgium. It is the largest brewer in the world, and in 20 ...

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.

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

Barnes Bridge Barnes Railway Bridge is a Grade II listed railway bridge in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and the London Borough of Hounslow. It crosses the River Thames in London in a northwest to southeast direction at Barnes. It carries the S ...

. 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 Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake * St Mary the Virgin Mortlake (Anglican)

Transport

Adjoining districts

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( Grove Park, after which is Old Chiswick or

Strand-on-the-Green Strand-on-the-Green is one of Chiswick's four medieval villages, and a "particularly picturesque" riverside area in West London. It is a conservation area, with many "imposing" listed buildings beside the River Thames; a local landmark, the K ...

, depending on direction) *

Nearest railway stations

Mortlake railway station Mortlake railway station is in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south London, and is in Travelcard Zone 3. It is down the line from . The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway. Postal district a ...

Barnes Bridge railway station Barnes Bridge railway station, in Travelcard Zone 3, is on The Terrace, Barnes in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in south west London. The station and all trains serving it are operated by South Western Railway (train operating comp ...

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 Ke ...

These are minor stops on the

Waterloo–Reading line The Waterloo–Reading line is a National Rail electric railway line between London Waterloo and Reading. The line runs west through a series of South West London suburbs to Reading, in central Berkshire. Its passenger operation is by South Wes ...

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

Weybridge Weybridge () is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge, Elmbridge district in Surrey, England, around southwest of central London. The settlement is recorded as ''Waigebrugge'' and ''Weibrugge'' in the 7th century and the name derives from a cro ...

and back to the London terminus via

Kingston upon Thames Kingston upon Thames, colloquially known as Kingston, is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, south-west London, England. It is situated on the River Thames, south-west of Charing Cross. It is an ancient market town, notable as ...

Brentford Brentford is a suburban town in West (London sub region), West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the River Thames, Thames, west of Charing Cross. Its economy has dive ...

. 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. Adjacent to Mortlake Station is Queen Victoria's old Waiting Room – now occupied by a classic car showroom – built for her and Prince Albert as they frequented White Lodge in Richmond Park, where their family and later their son, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII ) lived.

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

MortlakeOnline

St Mary Magdalen's Church

St Mary the Virgin, Mortlake
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