Today's
Knightsbridge is a recent cross-border development. This book breaks new ground
by uncovering an earlier, larger Knightsbridge and showing why its initial
extent and history have been largely forgotten. Pre-1900
Knightsbridge/Westminster included today's Kensington Palace, Kensington
Gardens, almost half of 'South Kensington', and Hyde Park west of the
Serpentine (or river Westbourne). This volume explores why so much of
Knightsbridge has been lost to memory, becoming thought of only in terms of
Westminster, Hyde or (until 1900 entirely wrongly) Kensington.