Twickenham, a town of Middlesex, on the Thames, 11½ m. SW. of London; a fashionable resort in the 18th century; the dwelling-place of Pope, Horace Walpole, Turner, and others.
Population (circa 1900) given as 16,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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