Strawberry Hill

Strawberry Hill is an affluent place of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames in Twickenham. It is a suburban development situated 10.4 miles west south-west of Charing Cross. It consists of a number of residential roads concentrated on a small development of stores and served by using Strawberry Hill railway station. The region's ACORN demographic type is characterised as well-off specialists, larger homes, and converted apartments. St Mary's University, Twickenham, the united states of america's oldest Roman Catholic University, is situated on the Waldegrave Road. Its sports activities grounds have been used as a training web site for the 2012 Olympics.

The 19th-century development is named after "Strawberry Hill", the fanciful Gothic Revival villa designed with the aid of creator Horace Walpole among 1749 and 1776. It started out as a small 17th century house "little greater than a cottage", with only five acres of land and ended up as a "little Gothic citadel" in 46 acres. The unique owner had named the residence "Chopped Straw Hall", however Walpole desired it to be known as something more one of a kind and after locating an vintage rent that described his land as "Strawberry Hill Shot", he adopted this name.