thumb|300px|right|The People's Hall, Freston Road. This is the only significant building from the Frestonian squatting period still standing on Freston Road itself, and was home to a group of French punks. Eventually, when they moved on, the location was popular with creative outsiders drawn to the community. The building hosted the recording of much of The Clash's album [[Combat Rock]]
thumb|300px|right|The People's Hall, Freston Road. This is the only significant building from the Frestonian squatting period still standing on Freston Road itself, and was home to a group of French punks. Eventually, when they moved on, the location was popular with creative outsiders drawn to the community. The building hosted the recording of much of The Clash's album [[Combat Rock]]
Frestonia was the name adopted for a couple of months by the squatters of Freston Road, London, when they attempted to stop a threatened eviction via secession from the United Kingdom. In 1974, two streets of tumbledown terraced Victorian cottages – Freston Road and Bramley Road – in the London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, were broken into by squatters who rigged up electricity, water and makeshift roofs. They playfully formed the Free and Independent Republic of Frestonia and declared independence on 31 October 1977.
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