London and Its Environs Described, vol. 6 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round ItAnonymous
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London and Its Environs Described, vol. 6 (of 6): Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
TURNMILL _street_, the ancient name of the street now corruptly called
Turnbull street. See TURNBULL _street_.
TURNPIKE _passage_, King street.
TURN-STILE, 1. Drury lane: 2. Holbourn.
TURNWHEEL _lane_, Cannon street, by Wallbrook.
TURRET _yard_, Little sanctuary, Westminster.
TURNVILLE _street_, Shoreditch Fields.
TUTTLE _court_, Barnaby street, Southwark.
TWEED _street_, Berwick street, Old Soho.
TWEEZER’S _alley_, Milford lane, in the Strand.
TWELVE BELL _court_, Bow church-yard, Cheapside.*
TWICKENHAM, a pleasant village in Middlesex situated on the Thames
between Teddington and Isleworth, and between two brooks that here fall
into that river. The church, which is a modern edifice, rebuilt by
the contribution of the inhabitants, is a fine Doric structure. Here
is a charity school for fifty boys, who are cloathed and taught: And
this delightful village is adorned with the seats of several persons
of distinction, particularly on the bank of the river. To begin at the
upper end; there is an elegant Gothic seat called Strawberry Hill,
belonging to the Honorable Mr. Walpole; then a beautiful house, late
the Earl of Radnor’s, now in the possession of Mr. Hindley. The next
of considerable note is Sir William Stanhope’s, formerly the residence
of our most celebrated poet Mr. Alexander Pope; then Mrs. Backwell’s;
and the last on this beautiful bank is doctor Battie’s, at present in
the possession of Mr. Paulet. All these houses, besides several others
on this delightful bank, enjoy a most pleasing prospect both up and
down the river, perpetually enlivened with the west country navigation,
and other moving pictures on the surface of this enchanting river.
Then below the church, you have the fine seat of Mr. Whitchurch, that
of the Earl of Strafford, Mrs. Pitt, and at the entrance into the
meadows, the elegant structure called Marble Hall, belonging to the
Countess of Suffolk. Still further down the stream you have the small
but very pretty house of Mr. Barlow; the larger and more grand one
of Mr. Cambridge; and the sweet retirement called Twickenham Park,
the residence of the Countess of Montrath. This brings you down to
Isleworth, which from the entrance into the meadows at Lady Suffolk’s,
is about a mile and a half on the bank of the river, opposite to
Ham-walks and Richmond-hill, and is one of the most beautiful walks in
England.
TWIG’S _rents_, Blue Anchor alley.†
TWISTERS _alley_, Whitecross street.
TWO BREWER’S _yard_, in the Curtain, Hog lane.*
TWO LEG _alley_, Old Bethlem.*
TWO SWAN _yard_, Bishopsgate street.*
TWYFORD’S _alley_, Petty France, Westminster.†
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