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Top 10 OLD MONEY Communities of THE UNITED KINGDOM

In Britain's most aristocratic communities, old money has crafted its ideal habitat across centuries, establishing distinct enclaves characterized by architectural uniformity, private gardens, and social institutions closed to outsiders. --------------------- Top 7 OLD MONEY Communities in the NORTHEAST --    • Top 7 OLD MONEY Communities in the NO...   --------------------- TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Introduction 1:01 #10 Hampstead 3:40 #9 Holland Park 6:08 #8 Fulham 8:34 #7 Dulwich 11:14 #6 St. George’s Hill 14:15 #5 Marylebone 17:02 #4 Queen Anne's Gate 20:22 #3 Stockbridge, Edinburgh 23:48 #2 Wimbledon 27:36 #1 Belgravia --------------------- The phrase, "old money" in Britain represents wealth that has passed through generations, often tied to land ownership, titles, and aristocratic lineage dating back centuries. Unlike American fortunes built primarily through industry and entrepreneurship, British old money typically originated from royal land grants, strategic marriages, or legendary trading companies. Hampstead traces its roots back to a medieval manor managed by Westminster Abbey, transforming from profitable farmland into a fashionable haven when affluent city dwellers, preferring green pastures to plague-ridden streets, began snapping up plots during the Black Death. Holland Park, originally established in 1605 when Sir Walter Cope built the extravagant Cope Castle, swiftly became the place to host royalty—King James himself frequently visited, clearly approving Cope's taste in architecture and extravagant horticulture. Fulham began as a dignified manor estate granted in 631 by Bishop Erkenwald before slipping into disrepute during the 18th century, only to be revived when aristocratic figures recognized its potential along the serene Thames banks. Dulwich traces its origins not to aristocratic birthright but to the charitable vision of Elizabethan actor Edward Alleyn, who acquired the manor in 1605 and established the College of God's Gift, an educational charity that ironically laid foundations for one of London's most exclusive neighborhoods. St. George's Hill stands as a delicious paradox—a gated paradise of privilege that began in 1649 as ground zero for one of England's earliest experiments in radical communism before master builder Walter George Tarrant transformed it in 1911 into a community where old money values could flourish behind guarded gates. Marylebone began as marshy terrain valued at a paltry 52 shillings in 1068 before its transformation began in 1715 when Edward Harley, Earl of Oxford, and Lady Henrietta Cavendish Holles commissioned sophisticated townhouses around the grand Cavendish Square. Queen Anne's Gate, originally constructed around 1704, maintained an actual dividing wall between its western and eastern segments until 1873—perhaps the earliest example of wealthy residents implementing physical barriers against undesirable through-traffic. Stockbridge in Edinburgh began as a humble village before Sir Henry Raeburn purchased the St Bernard's estate in the 1790s, creating spaces worthy of Scotland's finest families, including Ann Street with that rarest of Edinburgh luxuries: private front gardens. Wimbledon's pedigree as a wealthy retreat traces back to 1613 when Robert Bell, a director of the British East India Company, built Eagle House, with the area's status skyrocketing when King Charles the First purchased the manor for Queen Henrietta Maria in 1638. Belgravia, ironically beginning as "Five Fields"—a notoriously dangerous stretch frequented by highwaymen—was transformed when the Grosvenor family enlisted master builder Thomas Cubitt to create a neighborhood where wealth could live among wealth, producing those iconic white stucco terraces surrounding immaculate garden squares.