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Article: Passionate about Richmond; Kate Fraser discovers celebrity-spotting is among the many reasons people love working in London's most beautiful borough 'It is a very attractive area to work in. We're near enough to London, but not in the midst of it'.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 24, 2001
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Byline: KATE FRASER
RICHMOND-upon-Thames, with its stunning rural surroundings, is perhaps the most beautiful borough in London. Not to mention one of the most historic. For more than 800 years, courtiers, artists and statesmen, from Henry VIII to Virginia Woolf, Turner to Holst, have built their palaces and sumptuous houses here, have planted trees and landscaped gardens, giving the borough the look and feel of the country. In fact, Richmond has more open space than any other borough in London; including 21 miles of river, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and the 2,500-acre Richmond Park where the red and fallow deer are direct descendants of the herds hunted by ...