Strawberry Hill is an affluent area of the

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. It is a suburban development situated 10.4 miles (16.7 km) west south-west of

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. It consists of a number of residential roads centred on a small development of shops and served by

Strawberry Hill railway station Strawberry Hill railway station is in Strawberry Hill in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in south west London, and is in Travelcard Zone 5. It is down the line from . The station, and all trains serving it, are operated by South West ...

. The area's ACORN demographic type is characterised as well-off professionals, larger houses, and converted flats.

St Mary's University, Twickenham , mottoeng = Show Thyself to be a Mother , established = 1850 (as St Mary's College)2014 (gained university status) , type = Public university , religious_affiliation = Roman Catholic , endowment ...

, the country's oldest Roman Catholic University, is situated on Waldegrave Road. Its sports grounds were used as a training site for the

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Strawberry Hill House & Garden

The eighteenth-century development is named after "Strawberry Hill", the fanciful

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

villa A villa is a type of house that was originally an ancient Roman upper class country house. Since its origins in the Roman villa, the idea and function of a villa have evolved considerably. After the fall of the Roman Republic, villas became s ...

Horace Walpole Horatio Walpole (), 4th Earl of Orford (24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whigs (British political party), Whig politician. He had Strawb ...

between 1749 and 1776. It began as a small 17th century house "little more than a cottage", with only of land and ended up as a "little Gothic castle" in . 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.Calloway, Stephen, Snodin, Michael, and Wainwright, Clive, ''Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill'', Orleans House Gallery, Richmond upon Thames, 1980. p. 7-22 Warburton, Eliot. ''Memoirs of Horace Walpole and His Contemporaries''. Henry Colburn. London. 1851. p. 11-28 After a £9 million, two year restoration, Strawberry Hill House re-opened to the public in October 2010. It housed famous eighteenth-century literary figures such as Alexander Pope and Horace Walpole.

Other attractions

Other local attractions include: *

* Radnor Gardens *

, built in 1873, is an example of the

Victorian era In the history of the United Kingdom and the British Empire, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. The era followed the Georgian period and preceded the Edwardia ...

railway building boom. * Strawberry Hill Golf Course, opened in 1900 and designed by 5-time Open champion, JH Taylor

Education

References

Notes

*Jones, E. and Woodward, C. ''A Guide to the Architecture of London'', 1983, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London

External links

The Strawberry Hill Residents' Association
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