Campden Hill is a hill and street in Kensington.
The name of Campden Hill derives from a house called Campden House, built by Baptist Hicks whose country seat was in the Gloucestershire town of Chipping Campden.
The street called Campden Hill was built beside the grounds of the former Bute House, demolished in 1913.
Meanwhile the hill of this name lies in Holland Park, the former deer park of Holland House. The top of the hill was the site of water towers built in the 19th century by the Grand Junction and West Middlesex waterworks companies.
Writer GK Chesterton was born on Campden Hill.
1 Campden Hill dated from 1915 and built by Edmond Hills, President of the Royal Astronomical Society. A street named Observatory Gardens is situated nearby.
Holland Park School now lies to the north of the street.
