The Emperor of Japan drove past me in Richmond.

[u/11Bencda]

[u/bakazato-takeshi]

There’s 100s of places outside of the US named “Richmond.” It’s hardly a revolutionary thought to specify which it is.

[u/Cringe_Meister_ → u/[deleted]]

This is the only place in UK called Richmond ? I doubt it. It sounds so generic. There could be thousands of them. 

[u/sbprasad → u/Cringe_Meister_]

Indeed, Rishi Sunak’s main mansion (and where his electorate is) is near Richmond, North Yorkshire, more than 200 miles north of this one.

[u/my-name-is-puddles → u/sbprasad]

And that's actually the original one which the one in London is named after. It was Henry VII's Earldom. The same Henry built a palace and named it Richmond Palace after his Earldom, and the town around it was called Richmond after the palace.

[u/sbprasad → u/my-name-is-puddles]

Huh, I didn't know that. What I did know is that his (edit: I can't read. I meant Henry VII's son, Henry VIII, he of the 6 wives) main religious guy pre-Reformation, Cardinal Wolsey, was the Archbishop of York (though he wasn't very big on actually doing anything in York itself) and after Wolsey was disgraced, Henry took over his palace, which eventually became Whitehall...

I should check out Richmond Park the next time I'm in the capital. I've been to Kew and the RBG, but not Richmond.