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made between 1760 and 1771. They were probably designed by 
Brown. 
Love LANE. 
In 1765 an Act of Parliament was passed giving George III. power 
to shut up Love Lane, which za Kew and 2 Gardens :— 
thelate Horse Ferry at Kew, to West Sheene Lane near Е Вода Green, to be 
shut up and discontinued.’ 
The King undertook to keep the ера a Kew Bridge to Richmond 
in repair as an equivalent. This Act se to have been ineffective, for 
in 1785 a further Act was passed duo votié the parish of Richmond 
to elect a vestry. Each vestryman was to take an oath pledging him 
to perform his duties under the Act, the title of which is recited in the 
oath, concluding with :—** and also to enable His Majesty to shut up а 
Lane within the said Parish, called Love Lane." This would at an 
Tate keep ө кюл s wish befor re the mind of every successive vestry- 
man. According to Scheer, however (p. 17), it was not finally 
ооа till 1802. 
OLD DEER Park. 
In Rocque's map of 1734 this corresponds to pref ehe the western 
half of the area of the present Park. “It as a kind of 
hospital-paddock for aged deer." The eastern half was ту cg oceupied 
у Kitchen Gardens of Ormond House, and the west was divided 
up into square fields in arable cultivation. This was also the condition 
of e of the Richmond Gardens property, now included in the Royal 
Gard 
th she early part of the present century George III. enlarged the 
Deer Park by adding to the east (¿e., north of Kew Ga rdens proper) 
Evans (1825) gives a map in which he marks the Deer Park as 
* Richmond Old Park.” In 1851, 13 acres were taken from the Deer 
Park, and added to the Queen’s oe Grounds; for this a rent of 
451. 10s. is paid to the Woods and Fore 
The Deer Park as it exists is pal заң te creation of George III. 
The Pleasure Grounds at Kew were placed under Sir W. Soke by 
the Woods and Forests, J чу 9, 1845. Apparently the Old Deer Park 
was included in his charge. In his report for 1845 he states :— 
* This ground having been let for grazing purposes to a tenant from 
little send pa d requires to be done to it, save for the general ЕЕ o ‘the 
вап extensive piece of pasture land, comprising 374 acres, with ma 
noble trees xd belts 
* Some parts of the belts have been much injured and denuded by gales and cow 
casualties ; these blanks have been filled up to the yos of 1,000, with 
нел horse-chestnut trees planted this winter, and guarded by a strong rail fence bon 
In 1846 the wall between the Pleasure Grounds and the Deer Park 
was removed 
pail Howse. 
Kew House (or the White se) was a substantial private house of 
no great architectural Meo eben which stood in the private groun 
of the present palace, and to the south of it. In the middle of the 
