Editing Richmond Park (section)

====Six original gates====
[[File:Richmond gates of Richmond Park (March 2010) 2.jpg|thumb|upright|Richmond Gate, designed by [[Sir John Soane]]]]
When the park was enclosed in 1637 there were six gates in the boundary wall: Coombe Gate, Ham Gate, Richmond Gate, Robin Hood Gate, Roehampton Gate and Sheen Gate. Of these, Richmond Gate has the heaviest traffic. The present gates were designed by [[Sir John Soane]]<ref name="Soane">{{cite web | url=https://www.frp.org.uk/gate-design-credited-to-soane/| title=Gate design credited to Soane | date=1 October 2010 | publisher=[[#Friends of Richmond Park|Friends of Richmond Park]] | access-date=10 September 2023}}</ref><ref name="EH Richmond Gate">{{National Heritage List for England |num=1263361|desc=Richmond Gate Lodge, Screen Walls, Gate Piers and Gates|date = 10 January 1950|access-date= 19 October 2016}}</ref> and were widened in 1896.<ref name= McDowall71-78/> Sheen Gate was where the brewer John Lewis asserted pedestrian right of entry in 1755 after Princess Amelia had denied it. The present double gates date from 1926.<ref name= McDowall71-78/> Coombe Gate (later known as Ladderstile Gate) provided access to the park for the parishioners of [[Coombe, Kingston upon Thames|Coombe]], with both a gate and a [[stepladder]]. The gate was locked in the early 1700s and bricked up in about 1735. The stepladder was reinstated after John Lewis's case in 1758 and remained in place until about 1884. The present gate dates from 1901.<ref name= "McDowall71-78">McDowall, pp. 71–78</ref> The present [[wrought iron]] gates of Roehampton Gate were installed in 1899.<ref name= McDowall71-78/> Ham Gate was widened in 1921, when the present wrought iron gates were installed. The ''[[chinoiserie]]'' lantern lights over the gate were installed in 1825.<ref name= McDowall71-78/>

Robin Hood Gate takes its name from the nearby Robin Hood Inn (demolished in 2001) and is close to what is called<ref name="Robin Hood Roundabout">{{cite web | url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/675837 | title=A3 Robin Hood Roundabout | publisher=[[Geograph]] | access-date=8 October 2012 | author=Nigel Cox}}</ref> the Robin Hood roundabout on the [[A3 road|A3]]. Widened in 1907,<ref name= McDowall71-78/> it has been closed to motorised vehicles since a 2003 traffic reduction trial.<ref name="Aylward">{{Cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3051399.stm |title=Park blocks scenic rat run |author=Juliet Aylward |date=10 June 2003 |work=[[BBC News]] |access-date=1 June 2022}}</ref> Alterations commenced in 2013 to make the gates more suitable for pedestrian use and return some of the hard surface to parkland.<ref name="March 2013 diaries">{{cite web | url=https://www.frp.org.uk/march-park-diaries-2/ | title=March Park diaries | publisher=[[#Friends of Richmond Park|Friends of Richmond Park]] | date=7 March 2013 | access-date=1 June 2023}}</ref>