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4 unusual facts about Strawberry Hill


Gilly Williams

Williams made up, with George Selwyn, Richard Edgecumbe and Horace Walpole, a group who met at stated periods in the year at Strawberry Hill.

Pitt Hornung

Seeking a gentile lifestyle back in England, Pitt moved his family from Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, near London, to West Grinstead Park, West Sussex, which he purchased in 1913 from Sir Merrick Burrell.

Strawberry Hill, Cambridge

It is bounded by the town of Belmont on the west, Watertown on the south, Aberdeen Avenue on the east, and Fresh Pond on the north.

Strawberry Hill, London

The nineteenth-century development is named after "Strawberry Hill", the fanciful Gothic Revival villa designed by author Horace Walpole between 1749 and 1776.


Dessau-Wörlitz Garden Realm

The "Gothic House", started by Erdmannsdorff in 1774, modelled on the villa of Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill, was one of the first Neo Gothic structures on the continent.

Elizabeth Waldegrave, Countess Waldegrave

She died at her gothic villa, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, on 29 January 1816 at the age of 55 and was buried beside her husband in Great Packington.

Houghton Lodge

The antecedents of Houghton's style of architecture, known as cottage ornée, can be traced to the 'Strawberry Hill Gothic' style made popular by Horace Walpole at his fantasy castle at Strawberry Hill in the final quarter of the eighteenth century and further popularised by the writings of James Malton in his 1802 Essay on British Cottage Architecture.

Mapledurham House

It includes a late 18th century chapel built in the Strawberry Hill Gothic style for the Catholic owners of the house.


see also

SunTrust Indy Challenge

AAA held two National Championship sprint car races at the track when it was still a half-mile dirt track under the name Strawberry Hill Speedway.