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{{Short description|District in south-west London}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
{{Use British English|date=May 2018}}
{{infobox UK place
| static_image_name        = File:St Peter's Church, Norbiton - geograph.org.uk - 2163920.jpg
| static_image_caption     = St Peter's Church
| country                  = England
| map_type                 = Greater London
| region                   = London
| population               = 10,107
| population_ref           = (2011 Census. Ward)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=13688916&c=Norbiton&d=14&e=62&g=6331860&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1476183282172&enc=1|title=Kingston Ward population 2011|access-date=11 October 2016|work=Neighbourhood Statistics|publisher=Office for National Statistics }}</ref>
| official_name            = Norbiton
| os_grid_reference        = TQ195695
| london_borough           = Kingston
| post_town                = [[Kingston upon Thames]]
| postcode_area            = KT
| postcode_district        = KT1, KT2
| dial_code                = 020
| constituency_westminster = [[Kingston and Surbiton (UK Parliament constituency)|Kingston and Surbiton]]
| coordinates              = {{coord|51.41194|-0.28311|display=inline,title}}
}}<!-- Note: WGS84 lat/long, converted from OSGB36 grid ref -->

'''Norbiton''' is an area within the [[Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames]], London. It lies approximately {{convert|1|mi|km|1}} east of [[Kingston upon Thames]] town centre, and {{convert|11|mi|km|1}} from [[Charing Cross]]. Its main landmarks include [[Kingston Hospital]], [[Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames|Kingsmeadow]] football stadium, Kingston Cemetery and St Peter's [[Church of England parish church|Anglican parish church]] which serves the area.

Norbiton was part of the [[Municipal Borough of Kingston-upon-Thames]] in [[Surrey]] from its [[Municipal Corporations Act 1835|creation in 1835]], and became part of the larger Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in 1965.<ref>{{cite vob|url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10068241|name=Kingston upon Thames London Borough |accessdate= 3 June 2020}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Kingston-upon-Thames MB Ward Map 1868.svg|thumb|Norbiton ward of Kingston upon Thames Municipal Borough, 1868.]]
{{multiple image|align= right| direction= horizontal|caption_align= center|image1= Norbiton Hall plaque on Norbiton House, Kingston upon Thames, London.jpg|width1= 180|caption1= Plaque on flats at site of original Norbiton Hall|image2= George Meredith green plaque, Norbiton.jpg|width2= 162|caption2= Plaque at site of Kingston Lodge}}

Its name was originally Norberton(e) and it was named in a similar way to [[Surbiton]] on the opposite side of the [[Hogsmill]] River. The origin of the place-name is from the [[Old English]] words ''north'', ''bere'' and ''tun'' (meaning northern grange or outlying farm).<ref>{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of British Place Names|first1= A.D.|last1= Mills|publisher=Oxford University Press| location=Oxford| orig-year=First published 1991|date=2011|edition=First edition revised 2011|isbn=9780199609086}}</ref>

The area was originally a part of the parish of [[All Saints Church, Kingston upon Thames]]. In 1840 a separate Norbiton parish was created, with St Peter's Church built between 1840 and 1842 to a design of [[George Gilbert Scott|Gilbert Scott]] and [[William Bonython Moffatt|William Moffatt]].<ref>{{cite book |first1=Bridget |first2=Nikolaus|last1=Cherry |last2=Pevsner|title=[[Pevsner Architectural Guides]]. The Buildings of England London 2: South|year=1983 |publisher=Penguin |location=London|page=313|isbn=978-0-300-09651-4}}</ref>

Until the mid-nineteenth century much of Norbiton was made up of [[Estate (land)|country estates]], all since sold as housing land. These included:

'''Norbiton Hall''', a manor from the 16th century. Residents included [[Richard Taverner]], who lived there 1547–75 and [[Anthony Benn (Recorder of London)|Sir Anthony Benn]], 1605–18. In 1829, the Surrey MP [[Charles Nicholas Pallmer|Charles Pallmer]] sold the estate to [[Mary Jenkinson, Countess of Liverpool|Mary, Countess of Liverpool]], widow of the late prime minister [[Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool|Lord Liverpool]].<ref name=Malden>{{cite book|last=Malden|first=H.E.|title=A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3|year= 1911|publisher=Victoria County History, London, 1911|pages=501–516|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/surrey/vol3/pp501-516}} Accessed 30 March 2020</ref> It was finally demolished in the 1930s to make way for a complex of flats, also called Norbiton Hall. These flats were built between 1933 and 1935 and received local listing in 2018.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://moderngov.kingston.gov.uk/documents/s78824/Annex%201%20-%20Norbiton%20Hall-Heritage%20Assessment%202018.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202155312/https://moderngov.kingston.gov.uk/documents/s78824/Annex%201%20-%20Norbiton%20Hall-Heritage%20Assessment%202018.pdf |archive-date=2021-12-02 |url-status=live|title=Norbiton Hall: Heritage assessment for designation as locally listed building with inclusion in the local list of Building of Townscape Merit (BTM)|author=Elisabetta Tonazzi|date=February 2018|accessdate=2021-12-02}}</ref>

'''Norbiton Place''' was bought by [[Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet|Sir John Philipps]], who died there in 1764.<ref name=Prosser>{{cite book|last= Prosser |first= G.F.|title=Select Illustrations of the County of Surrey |year= 1828|publisher= Rivington, London.|url= https://archive.org/details/selectillustrat00prosgoog}} Accessed 9 April 2020</ref> One of the family's servants was [[Cesar Picton]], originally an African slave, he was brought to England aged six in 1761. He lived at Norbiton Place for nearly thirty years, before becoming a successful coal-merchant in Kingston.<ref>{{NHLE|num=1080069|desc=Picton House, Kingston upon Thames|access-date=9 April 2020}}</ref> In the early 1800s Norbiton Place became the main residence of [[Charles Nicholas Pallmer|Charles Pallmer]], owner of neighbouring Norbiton Hall.<ref name=Malden/> Pallmer greatly developed the estate, including adding a dairy styled like an Indian temple and a lodge in the form of a doric temple.<ref name=Prosser/> Living above his means, Pallmer was declared [[Bankruptcy|bankrupt]] in 1831.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=18798|page=807|date=26 April 1831}}</ref> Much of the main house was pulled down after 1830,<ref name=Malden/> with St Peter's Church built on part of the grounds.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://southwark.anglican.org/find-a-church/kingston/norbiton-st-peter&gt|title=St Peter's Church|access-date=3 June 2020|publisher=Diocese of Southwark}}</ref>

'''Kingston Lodge''', opposite Norbiton Hall, was leased by Novelist [[George Meredith]] in 1865. Disliking the increasing development of the area, he moved away at the end of 1867.<ref>{{cite DNB12|wstitle= Meredith, George|volume=2|pages=604–616}}</ref>

==Norbiton today==
Norbiton's housing stock largely consists of large [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] and [[Edwardian architecture|Edwardian]] family houses, plus small localised brownfield redevelopments of 1960s, 1980s and modern flats. It contains more council and [[social housing]] than most other areas of Kingston – one of the largest such sites, the Cambridge Road estate, was used as a fictional [[council estate]] in TV drama ''[[The Bill]]'', as well as the BBC sitcom ''[[Some Girls (TV series)|Some Girls]]''. In 2020 plans were agreed to regenerate the Cambridge Road estate, including demolishing 865 existing homes and building 2,170 new ones.<ref>{{Cite news|last= Jenkinson |first=Orlando |date=20 March 2020 |title=Residents back Cambridge Road estate regeneration |url= https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/18321736.residents-back-cambridge-road-estate-regeneration/ |access-date=4 May 2018|work=[[Surrey Comet]]}}</ref> Homes on the renewed estate will obtain [[District heating|heating]] by a process that turns treated sewage into clean energy, the first such scheme in England.<ref>{{Cite news|last= Ambrose |first=Jillian |date=26 February 2021 |title=Thames Water hopes to harness human 'poo power' to heat homes |url= https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/feb/26/thames-water-hopes-to-harness-human-poo-power-to-heat-homes |access-date=4 May 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref>

As Norbiton is only 25 minutes by train from [[London Waterloo railway station|Waterloo station]], the suburban population includes a large concentration of London commuters. [[Norbiton railway station]] was used as a location for the British sitcom ''[[The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin]]''. The headquarters of the [[Fire Brigades Union]] is located close to the station, on Coombe Road.

[[Kingsmeadow, Kingston upon Thames|Kingsmeadow]] football stadium in Norbiton was bought by [[Chelsea FC]] in 2016 and has been used for the home matches of [[Chelsea F.C. Women]] since 2017. It was previously used as a home ground by [[Kingstonian F.C.]] (1989–2017)<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ames|first=Nick|date=25 April 2017|title=Kingstonian leave Kingsmeadow: collateral damage in a modern football parable?|url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/apr/25/kingstonian-kingsmeadow-lost-stadium-chelsea-afc-wimbledon|access-date=4 May 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> and by [[AFC Wimbledon]] (2002–20).<ref>{{Cite news|last=White|first=Jim |date=7 February 2020|title=After 29 years 'without a home fixture', AFC Wimbledon fans have lent enough money to rebuild Plough Lane|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/02/07/29-years-without-home-fixture-afc-wimbledon-fans-have-leant/ |access-date=4 May 2018|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}</ref>

In the 2018 Kingston borough elections, both council seats in Norbiton ward were gained by the [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrats]] from [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]], leaving Labour with no seats on the council.<ref>{{Cite news|date=4 May 2018|title=Kingston local election results 2018|url=https://www.surreycomet.co.uk/news/16206533.kingston-local-election-results-2018/|access-date=4 May 2018|work=[[Surrey Comet]]}}</ref>

== Education ==
'''Education in Norbiton'''. See the main [[Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames#Education|Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames]] article.

== Politics ==
Norbiton is part of the [[Kingston and Surbiton]] constituency for elections to the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Location of Kingston and Surbiton (Constituency) - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament |url=https://members.parliament.uk/constituency/3557/location |access-date=2025-11-18 |website=members.parliament.uk |language=en}}</ref>

Norbiton is part of the [[Norbiton (ward)|Norbiton ward]] for elections to [[Kingston upon Thames London Borough Council]].<ref>{{cite web |date=25 March 2021 |title=The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames (Electoral Changes) Order 2021 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/417/made |access-date=14 November 2021 |website=[[gov.uk]]}}</ref>

==Transport and locale==

===Nearby places===
{{div col|colwidth=30em}}
* [[Berrylands]]
* [[Canbury]]
* [[Coombe, Kingston upon Thames|Coombe]]
* [[Kingston upon Thames|Kingston]]
* [[New Malden]]
* [[Surbiton]]
* [[Wimbledon, London|Wimbledon]]
{{div col end}}

===Nearest railway stations===
* [[Norbiton railway station]]
* [[Kingston railway station (London)|Kingston railway station]]
* [[Berrylands railway station]]
* [[New Malden railway station]]

==References==
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{{LB Kingston upon Thames}}

[[Category:Areas of London]]
[[Category:Districts of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames]]