The Rose and Crown - one of Wimbledon's oldest public houses, dating from the early 17th century. It was a starting point for stage coaches to London. The Victorian poets Leigh Hunt and Algernon Swinburne often met here.
SW19, High Street, Wimbledon, Rose and Crown pub
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Rose and Crown, Wimbledon
From Wimbledon Heritage Map: "part 17C, late 18C Â early 19C public house, not...
Poet. Born Southgate. Named 'James Henry Leigh Hunt' after the Duke of Chando...
Born 7 Chester Street, Chelsea. Poet associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He ...
The Crafts have another plaque in this road but English Heritage are clear that this (number 26) is the house in which the Crafts settled...
We weren't expecting the investigation into this plaque to turn up anything particularly interesting but go to the page for vicar Birch a...
English Heritage Mary Shelley, 1797-1851, author of Frankenstein, lived here, 1846-1851.
The plaque doesn't mention Fruiterers Passage but we believe the unveiling of the plaque coincided with the Passage being opened by the L...
The plaque made us think initially that the land used for the football club was adjacent to the Sutton Adult School (now the Thomas Wall ...
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