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( Notting Hill)
Coordinates 51°30'35?N 0°12'15?W? / ?51.5096, -0.2043 Notting Hill has a contemporary reputation as an affluent and fashionable area[2]; known for attractive terraces of large Victorian townhouses, and high-class shopping and restaurants (particularly around Westbourne Grove and Clarendon Cross). A Daily Telegraph article in 2004 used the phrase "The Notting Hill Set" [3] to refer to a group of young Conservative politicians, such as leader David Cameron and shadow Chancellor George Osborne. However, the large houses have also provided multi-occupancy rentals for much of the 20th century, attracting Caribbean immigrants in the 1950s who eventually clashed with the indigenous Teddy boys in the Notting Hill race riots. In addition, Notting Hill has had an association with artists and "alternative" culture since its development in the 1820s.[4][5] There are also areas of deprivation to the north,[6] sometimes referred to as "North Kensington", or the "Ladbroke Grove" area, from the name of the same street. The origin of the name "Notting Hill" is uncertain [7] though an early version appears in the Patent Rolls of 1356 as Knottynghull [8][9], while an 1878 text, Old and New London, reports that the name derives from a manor in Kensington called "Knotting-Bernes,", "Knutting-Barnes," or "Nutting-barns"[5], and goes on to quote from a court record during Henry VIII's reign that "the manor called Notingbarons, alias Kensington, in the parish of Paddington, was held of the Abbot of Westminster". It is thought likely that the "Nott" section of the name is derived from the Saxon personal name Cnotta,[10] with the "ing" part generally accepted as coming from the Saxon for a group or settlement of people.[11]
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