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ˈtwɪk ə nəmtwick·en·ham

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Wiktionary

  1. Twickenhamnoun

    A town in southwest London

  2. Twickenhamnoun

    Twickenham Stadium, the largest rugby stadium in England

Wikipedia

  1. Twickenham

    Twickenham is a suburban district in London, England. It is situated on the River Thames 9.9 miles (15.9 km) southwest of Charing Cross. Historically part of Middlesex, it has formed part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames since 1965, and the borough council's administrative headquarters are located in the area. The population, including St Margarets and Whitton, was 62,148 at the 2011 census.Twickenham is the home of the Rugby Football Union, with hundreds of thousands of spectators visiting Twickenham Stadium each year. The historic riverside area has a network of 18th-century buildings and pleasure grounds, many of which have survived intact.This area has three grand period mansions with public access: York House, Marble Hill and Strawberry Hill House. Another has been lost, that belonging to 18th-century aphoristic poet Alexander Pope, who was known as the Bard of Twickenham. Strawberry Hill, the Neo-Gothic prototype home of Horace Walpole is linked with the oldest Roman Catholic university in the country, St Mary's University.

Wikidata

  1. Twickenham

    Twickenham is a large suburban town 10 miles southwest of central London. It is the administrative headquarters of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames and one of the locally important district centres identified in the London Plan. Historically a parish in the county of Middlesex, as part of the suburban growth of London in the 20th century, the town expanded and increased in population, becoming incorporated as the Municipal Borough of Twickenham in 1926; it has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. 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.

Etymology and Origins

  1. Twickenham

    When Pope resided in this pretty up-river village its name was “Twitnam” for short, but it meant the same as of yore, a hamlet located between two rivulets of the Thames. The word is Anglo-Saxon, cognate with the modern German zwischen, between, and heim, a home.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of twickenham in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of twickenham in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

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