The Napoleon of Notting Hill the start of Neil Gaiman's novel "Neverwhere". Both the novel and Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday" are referenced in the 2000 video game "Deus Ex". (with illustrations by W. Graham Robertson) The Napoleon of Notting Hill The Napoleon of Notting Hill is a novel written by G. K. Chesterton in 1904, set in a nearly unchanged London in 1984. Although the novel is set in the future, it is, in effect, set in an alternative reality of Chesterton's own period, with no advances in technology or changes in the class system or attitudes. It postulates an impersonal government, not
Notting Hill immediate area surrounding the road. Ladbroke Grove tube station is on the road where it is crossed by the Westway. A turnpike gate was constructed at the foot of the hill on the main road from London to Uxbridge, now Oxford Street, Bayswater Road and Holland Park Avenue along this part of its route. The point at which the turnpike gate stood was known as Notting Hill Gate. The gate was there to stop people passing along the road without paying. The proceeds were applied towards the maintenance of this important road. The gate was removed in the 19th century