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When Edward Henry Rich, 9th Baron Rich, 7th Earl of Warwick and 4th Earl of Holland died young in 1721, the assets including the Jacobean Holland House, passed by marriage to the Edwardes family. The name Earl's Court likely came from the fact that for a long time the owners of the land were an old English noble family, the Rich family and they were the earls of Warwick. Earl's Court Farm is visible on Greenwood's map of London dated 1827. The earls held their manorial court where the Old Manor Yard is now, just by Earl's Court tube station, eastern entrance. A church had been constructed there by 1104. By circa 1095, his tenure had been converted, and he held Kensington directly from the crown. For over 500 years the land, part of the ancient manor of Kensington, was under the lordship of the de Vere family, the Earls of Oxford, descendants of Aubrey de Vere I, who held the manor of Geoffrey de Montbray, bishop of Coutances, according to the Domesday Book 1086. The Saxon Thegn Edwin held the lordship of the area prior to the Norman conquest. Its population at the 2011 census was 9,104.Ī map showing the Earl's Court ward of Kensington Metropolitan Borough as it appeared in 1916Įarl's Court was once a rural area, covered in orchards, green fields and market gardens. In practice, the notion of Earl's Court, which is geographically confined to the SW5 postal district, tends to apply beyond its boundary to parts of the neighbouring Fulham area with its SW6 and W14 postcodes to the west, and to adjacent streets in postcodes SW7, SW10 and W8 in Kensington and Chelsea.Įarl's Court is also an electoral ward of the local authority, Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council. The area has long been known as " Bedsitter Land" with many of its stuccoed terraces converted into studio flats, hotels and hostels. It lent its name to the now defunct eponymous pleasure grounds opened in 1887 followed by the pre– World War II Earls Court Exhibition Centre, as one of the country's largest indoor arenas and a popular concert venue, until its closure in 2014. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Earls Court.Įarl's Court is a district of Kensington in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in West London, bordering the rail tracks of the West London line and District line that separate it from the ancient borough of Fulham to the west, the sub-districts of South Kensington to the east, Chelsea to the south and Kensington to the northeast.