Pettiward Estate

The Pettiward Estate is a privately owned historic estate in west London, England, now owned by a family trust of the Pettiward family, formerly of Finborough Hall, Suffolk.

The Pettiward Estate's main landholdings are in Putney and West Brompton, London. Most of the houses were originally let by the estate on long leases, for example 99 years.

This part of the estate is located in north-west Chelsea, south of Earl's Court and north of World's End. Surviving records show the Pettiward family as landowners in south-west Kensington in the 1640s. Their West Brompton estate appears to have been acquired later, by Walter Pettiward (died 1749). The Pettiwards sold a small part of their estate to James I Gunter (died 1819) in 1811, a confectioner of Berkeley Square, whose son Robert I Gunter (d.1852) and grandsons Sir Robert Gunter, 1st Baronet (1831–1905) and James II Gunter developed much other land in the area, one of his main streets being Gunter Grove, the southern continuation of Finborough Road beyond the junction with Fulham Road. The estate was bounded to the west by the land of William Edwardes, 2nd Baron Kensington (1777–1852), 39 acres of which he sold before 1840 to form the Brompton Cemetery, opened in 1840. The eastern boundary was the east side of Redcliffe Gardens, the property of James Gunter. The northern boundary was the back of the houses on Redcliffe Lane. The north-south extent thus comprised numbers 2 to 58 Redcliffe Gardens, west side. The streets within the estate are lined with terraced housing and comprise:

The Pettiward family owned farms in part of the area between the Lower and Upper Richmond Roads. Roger Astley (died 1780) by his will dated 15 February 1778 bequeathed to Roger Pettiward his "copyhold estate at Putney consisting of three tenements". In 1893 on this agricultural land immediately east of Erpingham Road was built an athletic track and concrete cycling velodrome, the first of its type in the United Kingdom. In 1904 houses were built on the land, and the streets within this part of the estate now include:

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