Clarendon Road

{{Short description|Street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea}}

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File:EMMELINE PANKHURST and Dame CHRISTABEL PANKHURST - 50 Clarendon Road Notting Hill London W11 3AD.jpg and her daughter, fellow suffragist Christabel Pankhurst ]]

File:Tajikistan Embassy.jpg is at no. 110]]

Clarendon Road is a street in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, in the Notting Hill district of West London. It runs roughly south to north from Holland Park Avenue.

It is named after George Villiers, 4th Earl of Clarendon, who was Lord Privy Seal when the road was built.

The suffragists Emmeline Pankhurst and her daughter Christabel Pankhurst lived at no. 50, where in 2006 an English Heritage blue plaque was erected.{{cite web|url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/emmeline-christabel-pankhurst/|title="Pankhurst, Emmeline (1858–1928) & Pankhurst, Dame Christabel (1880–1958)"|website=English Heritage|access-date=11 July 2023}} A later resident, Mark Arnold-Forster, journalist and author, lived there until his death in 1981.

The author Arthur Machen (1863–1947) lived at no. 23, and in the 1880s wrote of his life here in his memoirs Far Off Things (1922) and Things Near and Far (1923).

The Embassy of Tajikistan in London is at no. 110.{{cite web|url=https://mfa.tj/en/london/contacts|title=Contacts|publisher=Embassy of Tajikistan to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|access-date=11 July 2023}}

In December 2022, Clarendon Road was reckoned to be the fifth most expensive street in England.{{cite news |last1=Neate |first1=Rupert |title=Easy street: these are the most expensive streets in the UK |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/dec/21/easy-street-these-are-the-most-expensive-streets-in-the-uk |access-date=21 December 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=21 December 2022}}

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