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Twickenham (London, England) - History - Pictorial works - Early works to 1800
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Twickenham. Twickenham is an exceedingly pleasant village in the hundred of Isleworth, in the county of Middlesex, between ten and eleven miles from London, on the north bank of the Thames. Norden saith, "it is called Twickenham, either for that, at this place, the Thames is divided into two rivers, by reason of the island there; or else, of the two brooks, which near the town enter into the Thames; for Twickenham (he observers) is as much as Twinam, quasi inter vinos amnes situm." The learned Costard ingeniously suggested that the name might be derived either from Twy, two, -and Ken, view, -the winding river here affording two remarkable views -or else from Twiggen, the ancient name for osiers, with which the islands abound. ...
Barrow, Joseph Charles.
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Date: 1790
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