Timeline

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• 925

  Barnes given to Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s by King Athelstan

• 1086

  Domesday Book records the manor of Mortlake as having land sufficient for 35 ploughs and the smaller manor of Barnes enough for six ploughs.

• 1206

  King John visits the manor at Mortlake. The manor house, on the older part of the brewery site, was in the possession of the Archbishops of Canterbury from the 11th to the 16th centuries.

• 1348

  Archbishop John Stratford granted a licence to build a chapel on a piece of ground in Berecroft for “the tenants of Estshene and Mortelak, who are far distance from their parish church”

• 1415

  Death of Sir William de Milbourne whose house stood opposite Barnes Pond on the site of the present Milbourne House

• 1536

  Archbishop Thomas Cranmer gives the Manor of Mortlake to Henry VIII who grants it to Thomas Cromwell

• 1538

  Thomas Cromwell orders all parish churches to keep registers of baptisms, marriages and burials

• 1543

  Henry VIII grants the Manor of Mortlake to his sixth wife, Katherine Parr. He retains the manor house for his own use

• 1543

  Henry orders Mortlake Parish Church to be moved from the manor house to its present site

• 1554

  Thomas Wyatt is executed for treason following a rebellion against Mary Tudor. His freehold of Milbourne House reverts to the Crown

• 1566

  John Dee comes to Mortlake

• 1580

  Barm Elms estate is acquired by Elizabeth I who grants it to Sir Francis Walsingham

• 1619

  Tapestry works opens at Mortlake

• 1637

  Richmond Park is enclosed including 732 acres of Mortlake

• 1660

  Restoration of monarchy. Barn Elms restored to St.Paul’s

• 1665

  Plague! 200 die in Mortlake; 18 in Barnes

• 1703

  Kit Cat Club moves to a house on the Barn Elms estate

• 1703

  Mortlake Tapestry works close

• 1720

  Large houses start to be built on Barnes Terrace

• 1758

  Barnes poorhouse is converted to a workhouse

• 1776

  Thames freezes over at Mortlake

• 1778

  New workhouse erected in Queen’s Ride

• 1827

  First Hammersmith Bridge opens

• 1828

  William Cobbett leases Barn Elms Farm

• 1831

  Cholera outbreak in Mortlake

• 1845

  First University Boat Race on the Putney to Mortlake course

• 1846

  Railway comes to Barnes and Mortlake

• 1849

  Barnes railway bridge opens

• 1884

  Ranelagh Club moves to Barn Elms

• 1887

  New Hammersmith Bridge opens

• 1888

  Cowan’s sugar works, on the site of Harrod’s depository, is destroyed by fire

• 1892

  Richmond takes over 329 acres (North Sheen) from Mortlake

• 1894

  Barnes and Mortlake combine to form Barnes Urban District Council

• 1906

  First motorised bus service from Mortlake and Barnes to London

• 1928

  Foundation stone of All Saints Church is laid by the Duchess of York, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

• 1932

  Barnes becomes a borough (including Mortlake and East Sheen)

• 1933

  Chiswick Bridge opens

• 1955

  Barnes and Mortlake History Society founded

• 1965

  Barnes and Mortlake become part of the new London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames

• 1968

  St Paul’s School moves to Lonsdale Road, Barnes

• 1978

  St Mary’s Church, Barnes is gutted by fire

• 1993

  Barn Elms reservoirs close; Wildfowl Sanctuary opens on site in 2000

• 2014

  Mortlake Brewery’s last brew before closing