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Originally Posted by Canadian Mind
Just throwing this question out there, why is Holland Park named Holland Park?
It's just an assumption on my part, but I like to think the park is named after the country we liberated in WWII. So I might be skating on thin ice, but I'd hazard a guess it was named so to tie it in with the fact that the adjacent highway was named after our head of state during WWII.
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I'm just guessing, but it could be named after Holland Park in London, there's also a Holland Park district there, and a Holland Park road.
Historically, there is a conection between the English throne and the Dutch House of Orange - King William III was King of England, but born in the Netherlands.
This would give it the significance that early Brit city pioneers wanted to bring with them.
But as I said, it's just a guess.