English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work

Edmund Kean gives his snuff box to an admirer, as a souvenir of his Richard III

Under Joseph Ellis the Star and Garter hotel expands still further to become the fashionable watering place for royalty and literary figures, including later in the century Dickens and Thackeray

By an Act of Parliament George IV encloses the western end of Kew Green up to the present Ferry Lane and closes the road across the Green.

After the death of Eva Garrick, David Garrick's widow, in 1822 the contents of Garrick's Villa are auctioned and the Roubiliac statue from the Temple goes to the British Museum

George IV lays the foundation stone for a school on the north east side of Kew Green and gives £300 on condition that the school be called the King’s Free School. Later Queen Victoria permits the school to be called The Queen’s School.

The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber

The Cambridge Park estate is divided and Meadowbank is built in the southern part.

12-year-old Charles Dickens works in London in Warren's boot-blacking factory

Plans are made for a horse-drawn railroad into the East India Docks, but it is not built

Jonathan Peel, younger brother of Sir Robert Peel, buys Marble Hill. He lives here until his death in 1879 and his widow stays on until her death in 1887.

An act of 1825 authorises the building of a new Kingston Bridge, fifty yards upstream, which is designed by Edward Lapidge

Turner sells Sandycombe Lodge after his father moves to Turner's central London house in Queen Anne Street. The buyer is Joseph Todd, a retired haberdasher of Clapham, who pays £500.

Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon has its premiere (in London, at Covent Garden)

J.M.W. Turner paints two views of the terrace at Mortlake belonging to the Limes, for its owner William Moffatt

William Cobbett leases the Home Farm of the Barn Elms estate

London's first suspension bridge opens at Hammersmith

William Cobbett engages in experimental farming methods on the Barn Elms farm, and the publicity generated by his activities causes it to become known as Cobbett’s Farm

The new Kingston Bridge is opened by the Duchess of Clarence on 17 July 1828 and the new approach road is named Clarence Street in her honour

The Metropolitan Police, set up in London by Robert Peel, become known as 'bobbies' from his first name

Old St Mary's Church is demolished but many monuments are transferred to a new Church on the same site and the vaults continue to be used under the new building

Edmund Kean takes a lease on the theatre and acts here until his death in 1833

Old London Bridge is demolished after more than six centuries, ending the chance of frost fairs on the Thames

New St Mary's Church opens, designed by Edward Lapidge, in white brick with stone dressings in Gothic revival style and with sqare pinnacled tower at the west end

The Church of St John's, dedicated to St John the Baptist and designed by Edward Lapidge, is completed in Hampton Wick