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London Streets and Squares: Campden

Campden Hill defines the estate belonging to Campden House, still standing in Campden Square, and originally occupied by Sir Baptist Hicks, who built Hicks' Hall, Clerkenwell, in 1612, afterwards created Viscount Campden. Warwick Road, Warwick Gardens, Holland Road, and Earl's Court Road are spacious modern thoroughfares, designated after the Earls of Warwick, the original owners of the estate known as Earl's Court, now in the possession of the Holland family. Addison Road reminds us that Joseph Addison, the poet, essayist, and dramatist, married the Dowager Countess of Warwick, and died in Holland House.

Cromwell Place, Putney, stands upon the site of Mr. Champion's house, the lodging of General Ireton, Oliver Cromwell's son-in-law, in 1646.