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====Other gates==== Chohole Gate served the farm that stood within the park on the site of the present Kings Farm Plantation. It is first mentioned in 1680.<ref name= McDowall71-78/> The gate now provides access to [[Richmond Park Golf Course]]. Kingston Gate dates from about 1750. The existing gates date from 1898.<ref name= McDowall71-78/> Bog Gate, or Queen's Gate, which connects the park with [[East Sheen Common]], was built in 1736. Public access to the park via this gate, 24 hours a day, was granted in 1894 and the present "cradle" gate was installed.<ref name="McDowall 70">McDowall, p. 70</ref> Petersham Gate served the Russell School, replacing the more ornate gates to Petersham Lodge. A disused carriage gate further up the hill was probably a tradesman's entrance to the school or to the Lodge stables.<ref name= McDowall71-78/> Bishop's Gate in Chisholm Road, previously known as the Cattle Gate, was for use by livestock allowed to pasture in the nineteenth century. It was opened for public use in 1896.<ref name= McDowall71-78/> Kitchen Garden Gate, hidden behind Teck Plantation, is probably a nineteenth-century gate. It has never been open to the public.<ref name="McDowall 70"/> Cambrian Gate or Cambrian Road Gate<ref name= McDowall71-78/> was constructed during World War I for access to the newly built South African Military Hospital.<ref name="Lost"/><ref name="Hearsum WWI">{{cite web | url=https://hearsumcollection.org.uk/the-first-world-war-and-richmond-park/ | title=The First World War and Richmond Park | publisher=The Hearsum Collection | date= 2 June 2015 | access-date=15 July 2023}}</ref><ref>Cloake, p. 198</ref> When the hospital was demolished in 1925, the entrance was made permanent, with public access, as a pedestrian gate.<ref name= McDowall71-78/>
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