Great post on Rotten Row!
The most fashionable bridle path in all of Regency London was Rotten Row in Hyde Park. It has been a very popular setting in countless Regency romance novels all the way back to Georgette Heyer. Rotten Row is still maintained as a bridle path in Hyde Park even today. However, there have been changes made to Rotten Row over the years, so that the Row today is not the same Row along which fashionable ladies and gentlemen of the Regency rode to see and be seen.
What are the origins of Rotten Row, how did it get its name, and what was it like during the years of the Regency?
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Ella Quinn ~ Author 
Thanks Ella and Kathryn. Rotten Row has become so eponymous within Regency writing that I thought it best to check (like the Four-in-Hand club). It’s easy to assume when a “fact” has been repeated enough. My next conundrum concerns dancing the waltz. I just read a respected research book that called 1812 the year of the waltz, but other sources say 1814. Maybe that was just waltzing at Almacks.
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