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|area_total_km2=3.30 |civil_parish = |official_name= Kew |latitude= 51.4837 |longitude= -0.2780 |os_grid_reference= TQ195775 |london_borough= Richmond |post_town= RICHMOND |postcode_district= TW9 |postcode_area= TW |dial_code= 020 |static_image_name=St-Anne-church-Kew-5857.jpg |static_image_caption=The Parish Church of St Anne, Kew |static_image_2_name=Kew Gardens Temperate House - Sept 2008.jpg |static_image_2_caption=Temperate House in Kew Gardens |constituency_westminster= Richmond Park }} Kew is a suburban district in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, north-east of Richmond and west by south-west of Charing Cross; its population at the 2011 Census was 11,436.〔 Kew is the location of the Royal Botanic Gardens ("Kew Gardens"), now a World Heritage Site, which includes Kew Palace. Kew is also the home of important historical documents such as ''Domesday Book'', which is on public display at The National Archives. Successive Tudor, Stuart and Georgian monarchs maintained links with Kew. During the French Revolution, many refugees established themselves there and it was the home of several artists in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Since 1965 Kew has incorporated the former area of North Sheen〔Blomfield 1994, p.131〕 which includes St Philip and All Saints, the first barn church consecrated in England.〔Blomfield, David. ''The Story of Kew'', second edition, p.36, Leyborne Publications, 1996〕 It is now in a combined Church of England ecclesiastical parish with St Luke's Church, Kew. Today, Kew is an expensive residential area because of its suburban hallmarks. Among these are sports-and-leisure open spaces, schools, transport links, architecture, restaurants, no high rise buildings, modest road sizes, trees and gardens. Most of Kew developed in the late 19th century, following the arrival of the District line of the Underground. Further development took place in the 1920s and 1930s when new houses were built on the market gardens of North Sheen and in the first decade of the 21st century when considerably more river-fronting flats and houses were constructed by the Thames on land formerly owned by Thames Water. ==Etymology== The earliest written reference to Kew is thought to be contained in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars, as the location where the Roman Army forded the Thames in 54 BC〔Blomfield 1994, p.3〕 although this has been disputed. The name Kew is a combination of two words: the Old French ''kai'' (landing place; "quay" derives from this) and Old English ''hoh'' (spur of land). The land spur is the bend in the Thames. The name was recorded in 1327 as ''Cayho''.〔Room, Adrian: ''Dictionary of Place-Names in the British Isles'', Bloomsbury, 1988〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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