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Captain Gray's HousesA History of Sion Row, Twickenham
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Robert Shepherd

Twickenham is chiefly known today as the home of rugby, but its heyday could be said to be in the eighteenth century when first Alexander Pope and then Horace Walpole made it their home and extolled its Arcadian setting. Captain Gray, a naval officer, acquired plots of land close to the river in Twickenham in 1718 on which he built two rows of houses, Sion Row and Montpelier Row, which survive…

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9781789590029
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1 online resource (548 pages)
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