Rowland Hill blue plaque

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# Rowland Hill at 2 Burton Crescent Standing before this understated townhouse on what is now Cartwright Gardens, you're looking at the place where Rowland Hill conceived and refined the revolutionary idea that would transform global communication forever. Between 1836 and 1839, while living at thi...

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2 Burton Crescent, later named Cartwright Gardens

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Sir Rowland Hill 1795-1879 Pioneer of the modern postal service lived in a house on this site 1836-1839