Month: March 2011

Chris Brasher lived at Petersham and set up the Petersham Trust in 1999 to preserve Petersham Meadows. For a time the riverside grass was grazed by cows – the nearest herd to London.

The Meadows have now been placed in the care of the National Trust which continues to pay the peppercorn rent of a posey of wild flowers to Richmond Council.

This seems appropriate as the Trust already looks after nearby Ham House.

See page 60.

It is worth crossing the river at Putney to have  look at Fulham Palace where the moat once fed by the River Thames has been revealed.

The moat, England’s longest and foolishly filled in about 90 years ago, has been excavated either side of the entrance.

See page 49.