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Twickenham history
Pre-Norman
Excavations have revealed settlements in the area dating from the Early Neolithic and Mesolithic periods. Occupation seems to have continued through the Bronze Age, the Iron Age and Roman occupation. The area was first mentioned in an 8th-century charter to cede the area to Waldhere, Bishop of London.
Norman
In Norman times Twickenham was part of the Manor of Isleworth in the Hundred of Hounslow, Middlesex. The manor had belonged to Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia in the time of Edward the Confessor. It was granted to Walter de Saint-Valery by William I of England after the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
17th century
It appears that Twickenham had a pest house in the 17th century, although the location is not known. There was also a watch house with stocks, a pillory and a whipping post. Bubonic plague spread to the town in 1665 and 67 deaths were recorded. In 1633 construction began on York House, occupied by Edward Montagu in 1656.
18th and 19th centuries
In 1713 the nave of the ancient St Mary’s Church collapsed, and the church was rebuilt in the Neo-classical style. In 1736, the noted pharmacist and quack doctor Joshua Ward set up the Great Vitriol Works to produce sulphuric acid, using a process discovered in the seventeenth century by Johann Glauber in which sulphur is burned together with saltpetre (potassium nitrate), in the presence of steam. The area was also soon home to the world’s first industrial production facility for gunpowder, on a site between Twickenham and Whitton.
20th and 21st centuries
Electricity was introduced to Twickenham in 1902 and the first trams arrived the following year. The area witnessed a high-profile murder on 19 August 2004, when French woman Amelie Delagrange (aged 22) died in hospital after being found with a serious head injury (caused by battery) in the area. Levi Bellfield was found guilty of both murders on 25 February 2008 (as well as a further charge of attempted murder) and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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