Twickenham

Twickenham, a town of Middlesex, on the north bank of the Thames, 11½ miles SW. of London. It is a place of many villas, and has been the residence of many notabilities—Catharine of Aragon, Lord Bacon, Lord Clarendon, Pope (who is buried in the church), Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill still remains, although a good deal altered), Kitty Clive, several of the Orleans family, J. M. W. Turner, Lord Tennyson, &c. Pop. (1851) 6254; (1891) 16,026. See R. S. Cobbett's Memorials of Twickenham (1872).