In
1816 J Norris Brewer wrote of Twickenham "At the name of this village
the imagination glows! Learning, wit, and poetical genius have rendered
the neighbourhood classic ground ... Lord Orford was correct when he
ventured to predict that Twickenham would be as highly celebrated as
Baiiae, or Tivoli!" Chief among the homes of such luminaries was
the house
of Alexander Pope and Horace
Walpole's Strawberry Hill.
In
Georgian times Twickenham was an extensive and populous village situated
on the banks of the Thames ten and a half miles from London.
