Notting Hill Gate

Notting Hill Gate is one of the main thoroughfares of Notting Hill, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. Historically the street was a location for toll gates, from which it derives its modern name.

Read more about Notting Hill Gate:  Location, Character, 1950s Redevelopment, Transport Links, Environs, In The Media

Famous quotes containing the words hill and/or gate:

    “Who knows but this hill may one day be a Helvellyn, or even a Parnassus, and the Muses haunt here, and other Homers frequent the neighboring plains?... It was a place where gods might wander, so solemn and solitary, and removed from all contagion with the plain.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Pale Death beats equally at the poor man’s gate and at the palaces of kings.”
    —Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65–8 B.C.)