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VAUXHALL

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 962 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VAUXHALL , a See also:

district on the See also:south See also:bank of the See also:river See also:Thames, in See also:London, See also:England, included in the See also:metropolitan See also:borough of See also:Lambeth. The See also:manor was held by Falkes de See also:Breaute (whence the name, $ alkes See also:Hall) in the See also:time of See also:John and See also:Henry III. About 1661 public gardens were laid out here, known as the New See also:Spring See also:Garden, and later as Spring Gardens, but more See also:familiar under the See also:title of Vauxhall Gardens. They soon became the favourite fashionable resort of the See also:metropolis; but as a See also:place of See also:general entertainment they underwent See also:great development from 1732 under the management of See also:Jonathan Tyers (d. 1767) and his sons See also:Thomas and Jonathan. In 1822, with the approval of See also:George IV., who frequented the gardens before his See also:accession, the epithet Royal was added to their title. By the See also:middle of the 19th See also:century, however, Vauxhall had lost its high reputation; in 1859 the gardens were finally closed, and the site was quickly built over.

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