Close to Kingston, and located between Kingston, Richmond and Roehampton, is Richmond Park, one of the oldest Royal parks.

The village green at the corner of Wildcroft and Telegraph roads is used by Roehampton Cricket Club and is one of the oldest cricket teams in London, being established in 1842.

Roehampton is a district in south-west London, forming the western end of the London Borough of Wandsworth.

The Richmond Park golf courses are west of the neighbourhood, and just south of these is the Roehampton Gate entrance to Richmond Park — the largest of London's Royal Parks.

Roehampton is 6. 3 miles ( 10. 1 km ) south west of Charing Cross.

The Roe in Roehampton is thought to refer to the large amount of rooks which still inhabit the area in large numbers.

The University has campaigned to have nearby Barnes Railway Station renamed as Barnes & Roehampton given that the station is situated between the two areas.

Furthermore Roehampton is an important location within H G Wells ' novel The Sleeper Awakes.

The Flying Stage at Roehampton is the scene for a major battle within the plot.

The Roehampton Vale campus is based on Friars Avenue, on the outskirts of Kingston.

It is close to Richmond, Ham, Kingston upon Thames, Wimbledon, Roehampton and East Sheen.

The University of Roehampton ( formerly Roehampton University ) is a campus university in the United Kingdom, situated on three major sites in Roehampton, south-west London.

Roehampton consists of four colleges around which accommodation is centred:

It is led by student officers elected by the student body, and aims to promote the interests and welfare of all those studying at Roehampton.

During World War II the hall was a safe home for nuns from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Roehampton, London, and it was used as a school for girls evacuated from Woldingham School near London.

Froebel College is now a constituent college of Roehampton University and is home to the university's department of education.

The University of Roehampton Library is also home to the Froebel Archive for Childhood Studies, a collection of books, archives, photographs, objects and multi-media materials, centring on Friedrich Fröbel ’ s educational legacy, early years and elementary education.

Dalip Singh was initially lodged at Claridge's Hotel in London before the East India Company took over a house in Wimbledon and then eventually another house in Roehampton which became his home for 3 years.

He returned home and within an hour was rushed to Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton suffering from pancreatitis and he died there three weeks later aged 44.

Roehampton emerged as a favoured residential suburb of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries following the opening of Putney Bridge in 1729 and the development of a number of large private estates from which several of the original houses survive.

The park has a number of traffic and pedestrian gates leading to the surrounding areas of Sheen, Roehampton, Putney, Kingston and Ham.

All four of Roehampton University's constituent colleges, Whitelands College, Southlands College, Digby Stuart College and Froebel College, are independently owned, although the university holds a number of relevant long-term leases.

Noted graduates and associates of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies and the Department of Cultural Studies include: Paul Gilroy ( LSE ) theorist of culture and race, Angela McRobbie ( Goldsmiths ) theorist of consumption, femininity and popular culture, Celia Lurie ( Goldsmiths ) feminist theory and consumption, Jackie Stacey ( University of Manchester, film, cancer culture and science in culture ', Sarah Franklin ( LSE ) science as culture, Debbie Epstein ( University of Cardiff education, childhood and youth studies, sexuality and popular culture, Peter Redman ( The Open University ) masculinities, psychoanalytic theor, Mary Jane Kehily ( The Open University ) childhood and youth studies, Joyce Canaan ( City University, Birmingham ) cultures of higher education, Anoop Nayak ( Newcastle University ) geographies of race, Deborah Lynn Steinberg ( Warwick University ) science cultures, sexuality and popular culture, Hilary Pilkington ( Warwick University ) Russia and youth subcultures, Sue Wright ( Danish Pedagogic University ) cultures of higher education, Hazel Carby ( Yale ) race and literature, David Parker ( Nottingham University ), Mica Nava ( University of East London ) media studies, Chris Griffin ( Bath University ) girls and youth cultures, and Adrian Kear ( Aberystwith University ) performance studies and psychoanalysis, Kevin J. Brehony ( Roehampton University ) historical studies of educational ideologies ..

Apart from education other notable institutions based here include: The Priory Clinic ; the Bank of England Sports Centre ; Rosslyn Park Rugby Football Club ; and The Roehampton Club.

Amongst the alumni of the University of Roehampton, and other institutions that fall under that banner are:

It was a federation between two institutions ; the University of Surrey ( UniS ), and the University of Surrey Roehampton ( USR ).

The University of Surrey, based in Guildford, first validated courses for the Roehampton Institute of Higher Education in Roehampton, London in 1980 and in 1998 the two institutions decided to form an academic federation.

The body was officially formed on 14 January 2000 between the two institutions and as part of the merger, Roehampton Institute was renamed University of Surrey, Roehampton.

Parkstead House ( grade I ) built in 1750 for William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, now forms part of the University of Roehampton.

Mount Clare ( grade I ) built in 1772 for George Clive, cousin of Lord Clive, which forms part of the University of Roehampton, along with Grove House ( grade II *), built originally for Sir Joshua Vanneck in 1777 ( also now owned by the University ).

Parkstead ( Manresa ) House, Downshire House, Grove House and Mount Clare are now all part of the Roehampton University campus.

It has long been a major centre for teacher-training, being the site of two constituent Colleges ( Digby Stuart College and Froebel College ) of the former federal Roehampton Institute of Higher Education ( now Roehampton University ), as well as southeast England's only lecturer-training college ( Garnett College ) which eventually relocated and became part of the University of Greenwich.

Roehampton University has an ongoing project which places hearth tax data in a national framework by providing a series of standard bands of wealth applicable to each county and city.

In November 1999, the Privy Council approved the necessary changes to the university's Charter and Statutes and the Roehampton Institute became The University of Surrey Roehampton at the beginning of 2000.

Between 2000 and 2004, the university and Roehampton worked together as the Federal University of Surrey.

In June 2004, the Privy Council granted Roehampton an independent university title, and it became Roehampton University from 1 August 2004.

Honorary Doctorate of Letters, Roehampton University, July

He holds an honorary MA from Nene College of Further Education ; was awarded an honorary degree from Roehampton University in 2006 ; as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of Liverpool on 3 July 2006.

County Polo has had a resurgence in recent years, although the original County Polo Association was formed in 1898 * to look after the interests of the country clubs and to run the County Cup Tournaments ), the three London polo clubs — Hurlingham, Ranelagh and Roehampton — and from all associations within the Empire where polo was being played.

Roehampton Village has retained something of its rustic Georgian charm, best exemplified by the King's Head Inn, at the foot of Roehampton High Street and the Montague Arms, Medfield Street, both 17th-century in origin.

The installation and construction of a pedestrian entrance to Richmond Park from the Alton Estate was secured by Justine Greening ( MP for the Putney constituency, which includes Roehampton ) was secured in 2007 although it has not yet materialised.

Roehampton has long been an exclusive London address.

The Demonstration School, originally located at Colet Court, Kensington, has evolved into Ibstock Place School, Roehampton.

In addition to the PhD he earned at King's College, he has also been awarded honorary doctorates from the universities of: Cambridge ; Glasgow ; Haifa ; Middlesex ; Yeshiva University ; Liverpool and St. Andrews, University of Roehampton and is an honorary fellow of Gonville and Caius and King's College London.

She is an Honorary Fellow of Roehampton University ( National Centre for Research into Children's Literature ) and has an honorary doctorate from the University of East Anglia.