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First begun as Newland Street in 1817, it runs south from Kensington High Street; the present name recalls the parish connection with the Abbey of Abingdon. In 1894 the Australian-born Countess von Arnim, author of Elizabeth and her German Garden, is said to have stayed at Abingdon Mansions.
Excerpted from The London Encyclopaedia by kind permission of the Publishers, Pan MacMillan.
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