Clapham Orangery Traditional Cache
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The Clapham Orangery is one of the most surprising buildings in South London, especially considering its surroundings.
Please note the cache is best approached from the South, you can't get through from the North.
There is a nice kids wooden climbing frame next to the Orangery.
The Orangery is a magnificent Georgian façade located in the heart of Clapham's Notre Dame estate. Currently owned and maintained by Lambeth Council, the structure will be developed in association with English Heritage, to ensure it retains authentic period features .Designed in 1783 and built by Robert Thornton, the structure's stone columns were originally reflected in a Lake in what was part of a striking ornamental park.
The Thorntons were a Hull banking family and definitely the richest amongst the rich of Clapham. Their move to London, specifically Clapham, was in the early 18th Century in the person of two brothers, Robert and Godfrey Thornton. Robert settled on the south side and Godfrey on north side. Robert's descendants were to be the most well known members of the family and the longest settled in Clapham.
Robert's eldest son, John, became an MP and a governor of the Russia Company. His son Robert lived in considerable splendour in a house on Clapham South Side, of which only the orangery survives, surrounded by a concrete jungle that is the Notre Dame Housing Estate. Here in this orangery in 1800, William Pitt and most of the cabinet were entertained by Mr Samuel Thornton, followed in 1808 by the visit of Queen Charlotte and the princesses Augusta and Elizabeth. It was the youngest son, Henry, who purchased Battersea Rise House in 1792, from John Lubbock, the banker, who made Clapham the centre of the fight for the abolition of slavery.
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