The work of the Trust

Since 1966 the Hampton Riverside Trust has, among other things:

• Assisted in the successful reintroduction of the Hampton ferry
• Worked with the Temple Trust and the Council and the Thames Landscape Strategy to help to restore David Garrick’s riverside Temple to Shakespeare and the Capability Brown gardens
• Helped to establish the swan haven at Bell Hill
• Opposed, with some success, planning applications for unsuitable riverside developments.
• Created, in partnership with the Hampton Society, the new website ‘Hampton: its Past and its Present’ www.ourhampton.org.uk
• Begun a scheme to record on videotape various aspects of Hampton Life in the early years of the 21st Century. A selection of the footage will be edited onto DVD and the remainder kept as an archive resource
• Experimented, in cooperation with the Thames Explorer Trust, the establishing of a programme of National Curriculum related study days for local schools, exploring the educational potential of the Hampton environment, the Temple and the Rivers Thames and Longford
• Maintained a concerned and informed interest in the proposals for the redevelopment of Platt’s Eyot.
• Finally succeeded, with the full cooperation of the Council, in achieving the restoration of Hampton Quay at Bell Hill riverside, with its associated gardens and original Victorian ironwork – an area that has been in decline for decades.

We will continue, together with the Hampton Society, our Member of Parliament and local councillors to try to tackle the continuing appalling traffic problems on the A308 as it passes through Hampton