Built in 1855, The Albert and is named after Prince Albert, the consort of Queen Victoria. Their son, who became Edward VII, used to stop at the pub occasionally on his way from London to Windsor.

Being 25 minutes via train to Waterloo station, the suburban population is made up of a large number of London commuters. Perhaps this is why the railway station here was famously used as a location for the British sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin.

History of Norbiton
Norbiton is not mentioned in the Domesday Survey, but the first mention occurs early in the 13th century when William de Wicumb and Sailda his wife quitclaimed 6 acres of land there to Hamon son of Ralf and William son of Siward. The hamlet was part of the manor of Kingston, and the common which lay to the north was under the control of the bailiffs and freemen who used the timber there for 'the mending, repairing and entreteyning of the wayes' as being appurtenant 'to the King's Royalty, the grant whereof they have in their fee farm.' The right of felling the timber was upheld by an order in Council in 1543, (fn. 108) though violently opposed by the inhabitants of Norbiton, and was of some value, for the Court of Assembly ordered, in 1680, 'that a book should be bought to enter ye accounts of ye wardens of Norbiton Common in, and that the same be left with the Town clerk to enter as other accounts.'

 In the East Field of Norbiton in the reign of Edward III lay Walepot, Adewellerthe, Kyondescroft, Crokkeres Forlang, and Wateryngcroft, and the common of Norbiton is mentioned as the northern boundary of a road which had 'le Holefur' on the south. The common lands were inclosed under an Act of Parliament obtained in 1808, and from that date the population grew so rapidly that the new ecclesiastical district of St. Peter was formed in 1842, the parish of St. John the Baptist, Kingston Vale, in 1847, the consolidated chapelry of St. John the Evangelist in 1873, the parish of St. Paul, Kingston Hill, in 1881, and the parish of St. Luke, Gibbon Road, in 1890.

The population numbered 9,063 in 1901. From the Kingston Road, Kingston Hill, and Park Road, innumerable streets have radiated, and nearly the whole space here between the Hogsmill river and Richmond Park is now occupied or about to be developed. Manor Gate Road takes its name from the 'Manyngate' mentioned with Tarendeslane in the reign of Richard III.

From: 'Kingston-upon-Thames: Introduction and borough', A History of the County of Surrey: Volume 3 (1911), pp. 487-501.
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