Strawberry Hill
| Strawberry Hill | |
| Middlesex | |
|---|---|
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| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ155725 |
| Location: | 51°26’17"N, 0°20’6"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Twickenham |
| Postcode: | TW1, TW2 |
| Dialling code: | 020 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Richmond |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Twickenham |
Strawberry Hill is a suburban village in Middlesex, to the south of Twickenham and looking down at the Thames opposite the meadows of Ham which lie on the Surrey bank.
The village consists of a number of residential roads centred on a small development of shops. It is served by Strawberry Hill railway station, where trains run to Waterloo, via Kingston or Richmond respectively. The population is largely of well-off professionals, with larger houses, and converted flats. St Mary's University, Twickenham, the country's oldest Roman Catholic University, is situated on Waldegrave Road. Its sports grounds were used as a training site for the 2012 Olympics.
Strawberry Hill House & Garden
- Main article: Strawberry Hill House
The village is an eighteenth-century development, named after "Strawberry Hill", the fanciful Gothic Revival villa designed by author Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776. The house began as a small 17th century house "little more than a cottage", with only five acres of land, and ended up as a "little Gothic castle" in46 acres. The original owner had named the house "Chopped Straw Hall", but Walpole wanted it to be called something more distinctive and after finding an old lease that described his land as "Strawberry Hill Shot", he adopted this name.[1][2]
After a £9 million, two-year restoration, Strawberry Hill House re-opened to the public in October 2010.[3] It housed famous eighteenth-century literary figures such as Alexander Pope and Horace Walpole.
Recreation and sport
- Radnor Gardens
- Strawberry Hill Golf Course, opened in 1900
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References
- ↑ Calloway, Stephen, Snodin, Michael, and Wainwright, Clive, Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill, Orleans House Gallery, Richmond upon Thames, 1980. pp. 7–22
- ↑ Warburton, Eliot. Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries. Henry Colburn. London. 1851. pp. 11–28
- ↑ Strawberry Hill. Strawberry Hill Trust. 28 March 2011.
- Jones, E. and Woodward, C.: 'A Guide to the Architecture of London' (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983)