In which London Park is 'Rotten Row'?
Rotten Row such as in Lewes, East Sussex and Elie, Fife. It describes a place where there was once a row of tumbledown cottages infested with rats ("raton") and dates to the 14th century or earlier, predating the London derivation. Other historians have speculated the name might be a corruption of "rotteran" (to muster), "Ratten Row" (roundabout way), or "rotten" (the soft material with which the road is covered). Rotten Row Rotten Row is a broad track running along the south side of Hyde Park in London. It leads from Hyde Park Corner to Serpentine Road. During the 18th and 19th centuries,
Rotten Row 300 years of Rotten Row was erected in 1990. Rotten Row features in a short piece of orchestral light music, composed by Wally Stott in 1958. It is briefly alluded to as "that wretched row" in the 1891 Oscar Wilde short story ″The Sphinx Without a Secret″. Michael Crichton's 1979 feature film, "The First Great Train Robbery", set in 1855 has a scene in which the character Edward Pierce (portrayed by Sean Connery) escorts Emily Trent (Pamela Salem) on a supposedly romantic ride along Rotten Row. "Rotten Row" is a location in at least 15 places in England and Scotland,