Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STRAWBERRY HILL

STRAWBERRY HILL, a seat in Twickenham parish, Middlesex; on the river Thames, 2¼ miles NNW of Kingston. It was occupied byCibber, Bishop Talbot, and the Duke of Chandos; was rebuilt, in castellated Gothic style, by Horace Walpole; and passed to Mrs. Damer, and Earl Waldegrave.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Twickenham St Mary the Virgin CP/AP       Middlesex AncC
Place: Strawberry Hill

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