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Form an orderly Kew at Marks Barfield’s Xstrata Treetop Walkway

Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker

The historic urge to view Kew Gardens from a great height has found its ultimate expression in a new Treetop Walkway

In 1761, work began on the construction of William Chambers’ Chinese Pagoda at Kew — a 10-storey structure built as a surprise present for Princess Augusta, mother of George III.

As it rose towards its ultimate height of 50m, it was observed by Horace Walpole from his house at Strawberry Hill on the far side of the Thames. “We begin to perceive the tower of Kew from Montpelier Road,” he wrote to a friend. “In a fortnight you will be able to see it in Yorkshire.”

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