Captain Gray's Houses: A History of Sion Row, Twickenham

by 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 to this day and are much admired.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789590000
• ISBN13: 9781789590005
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Sacristy Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"