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Twickenham is a town in south west London on the River Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, located southwest of the centre of London. The administrative headquarters of the borough are at York House in Twickenham, which is of equal importance to Richmond in the London Plan. It expanded rapidly during the suburban growth of London from 1881 until 1961, when its population grew and its farms and common were converted to other use. In 1926 it was incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Twickenham, which merged into the present Greater London borough in 1965.
This area has three grand period mansions with public access: York House, Marble Hill and Strawberry Hill House. Another has been lost, that belonging to 18th century aphoristic poet Alexander Pope. Among these is the Neo-Gothic prototype home of Horace Walpole which has given its name to a whole district, Strawberry Hill, and is linked with the oldest Roman Catholic university in the country, St Mary's University, Twickenham.
Twickenham's demonym is "the home of England rugby": the home of the Rugby Football Union is at Twickenham, as is Twickenham Stadium. The world’s largest rugby stadium, it also hosts seasonal and particularly charity music concerts.
In November 2014 Richmond upon Thames Council purchased three retail premises and a car park and announced plans to develop a public square in this space that would connect the Twickenham riverside and the High Street areas.
Twickenham is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Tania Mathias, a member of the Conservative Party.
Twickenham is a town in the Borough of Richmond upon Thames, in west London.
Twickenham may also refer to:
- the former Municipal Borough of Twickenham, which merged into the present London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in 1965
- Twickenham Film Studios
- Twickenham Stadium, a rugby union stadium in Twickenham, England
- Twickenham (UK Parliament constituency)
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Huntsville, Alabama, US, by original name
- Twickenham Historic District, in Huntsville
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, a Second World War minesweeper
Usage examples of "twickenham".
Skiros, 118 Garlenda Drive, Twickenham, UK, and was stamped with one hundred shillings worth of un franked stamps and an airmail sticker As well as a letter I reckoned it also contained a tiny plastic card, the sort that supports a micro-chip the memory card from her digital camera?
To Miss Laetitia Hawkins, 2, Sion Row, Twickenham March 8th 1809 Dear Miss Hawkins, You will forgive my tardiness in replying to your numerous letters, but I have been staying in Dumbartonshire with my husband Admiral Keith and have only recently returned.
The company shook hands all around and, there being no time like the present, as Twickenham pointed out, pushed off and slid out and away from the dock.
Twickenham popped in on the third morning and announced the arrival of the linkmen the previous evening.
Like Twickenham, they were slightly larger than linkmen and not nearly as stout as dwarfs.
Jonathan, Dooly, the Professor, the linkmen and Ackroyd the baker sat on one side and Twickenham and Blump and the rest of the elves sat along the other.