50 Clarendon Road, home to Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter, fellow suffragist Christabel Pankhurst

Clarendon Road is a street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the Notting Hill district of West London. It runs roughly south to north from Holland Park Avenue.

It is named after George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, who was Lord Privy Seal when the road was built.

The suffragists Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel Pankhurst lived at no. 50, where in 2006 an English Heritage blue plaque was erected.[1] A later resident, Mark Arnold-Forster, journalist and author, lived there until his death in 1981.

The author Arthur Machen (1863–1947) lived at no. 23, and in the 1880s wrote of his life here in his memoirs Far Off Things (1922) and Things Near and Far (1923).

The Embassy of Tajikistan in London is at no. 110.[2]

In December 2022, Clarendon Road was reckoned to be the fifth most expensive street in England.[3]

References

  1. ""Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858–1928) & Pankhurst, Dame Christabel (1880–1958)"". English Heritage. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  2. "Contacts". Embassy of Tajikistan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  3. Neate, Rupert (21 December 2022). "Easy street: these are the most expensive streets in the UK". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 December 2022.

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