What is "twinbrook"

Twinbrook or Twin Brooks may refer to:

• Twinbrook, Belfast, a district on the outskirts of West Belfast
• Twinbrook (WMATA station), a Washington Metro station in Montgomery County, Maryland
• Twinbrook (Rockville, Maryland), a subdivision of Rockville, Maryland
• Twinbrook, a fictional town in The Sims 3: Ambitions
• Twin Brooks, Edmonton, a neighborhood of Edmonton
• Twin Brooks, South Dakota, a town in South Dakota

Twinbrook is a large residential subdivision in the city of Rockville, Maryland. The name Twinbrook or Twin-Brook came from the four developers, Joseph L. Geeraert, Roland Simmon, Wesley Sauter, and Donald Gingery, who originally established the new subdivision on October 18, 1946. The name was a reference to the two streams that traversed the original 200 acres of the development, both eventually feeding into Rock Creek, which is the namesake feature of Rock Creek Park, a unit of the National Park Service.

The older south section of Twinbrook is roughly bounded by First Street on the west, Veirs Mill Road on the north, Halpine Road and Twinbrook Parkway on the east and the B&O railroad and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority tracks to the southwest. And, with some exceptions, the smaller north section is bound by Veirs Mill Road to the south, Old Broadwood to the west, Old Baltimore Road to the North and Twinbrook Parkway to the east.