Richmond Park

This guide to Richmond Park in London follows a 1755 dispute at one of its gates, when a keeper turned away a brewer named John Lewis for arriving on foot without a carriage. It traces the park's shift from open common ground under Charles I to the locked domain Princess Amelia made of it a century later, handing keys only to her friends, and the fight Lewis mounted over a right his neighbours had quietly lost. Look for the gate itself on your walk, and picture a stubborn brewer refusing to turn back.