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Rh TUTNALL. 703 TWICKENHAM. TUTNALL and COBLEY, hmlts. in the par. of Tarde- bigg, Alchester div. of Barlichway hund., co. Worcester, formerly in Warwickshire, 2 miles S.E. of Broinsgrove, on the Birmingham railway and canal. TUTTINGTON, a par. in the hund. of South Erp- ingham, co. Norfolk, 2 miles E. of Aylsham, and 12 from Norwich. The village is situated near the river Bare. The living is a vie. in the dioc. of Norwich, yal. 124, in the patron, of the bishop. The church is dedicated to SS. Peter and Paul. TUXFORD, a par., post and market town in the South Clay div. of Bassetlaw wap., co. Nottingham, 7 miles S.E. of East Retford, and 13J N.W. of Newark. It is a station on the Gieat Northern railway, and is situated on a branch of the Trent, and on the Great North road. The town is well built and lighted with gas. There are a corn exchange, malt-houses, corn mills, and brick kilns. Hops are grown in the neighbourhood. The population, which is on the decline, numbered only 1,034 in 1861. The living is a vie. in the dioc. of Lincoln, val. 260, in the patron, of Trinity College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, had formerly a chantry or college, founded by John de Long- villers in Edward III.'s time. In the interior are effigies of a knight and his lady, and some stained glass windows. The parochial charities produce about 64 per annum. There are an endowed National and infant schools. The Independents and Wesleyans have chapels. The Duke of Newcastle is lord of the manor. Market day is Monday. Fairs are held for cuttle, sheep, and pigs on the 12th May and 2nd October, and for hops on 25th September. TWAM BROOKS, a tnshp. in the par. of Great Bud- wortli, hund. of Norwich, co. Chester, a quarter of a mile E. of Norwich. TWEED, the Tueda of the Romans, a largo river forming part of the boundary between England and Scotland. It rises in Tweeds Well under Hart Fell, in co. Peebles, the ancient name of which was Tweeddale, and after receiving the tributary waters of the Talla, Biggar, Lyne, Munor, Eddleston, Leithen, Quair, Et- trick, Gala, Leader, Teviot, Till, and Whitadder, fulls into the German Ocean opposite Berwick lighthouse. The tide ascends as high as Norham Castle, and the river has a salmon fishery, once worth 15,000 a year, but recently much reduced, being now scarcely worth 4,000. TWEEDMOUTH, a par. and seaport town in the hund. of Islandshire, co. Northumberland, formerly in Durham, 1 mile from Berwick-upon-Tweed, of which it forms a suburb, and 13 miles from Coldstream. It is a junction station on the North-Eastern railway, where the Kelso branch turns off. The town, which is consider- able, is situated on the southern bank, and at the mouth of the river Tweed, over which is a bridge connecting it with Berwick. The streets are irregularly built, and well lighted with gas. There are extensive steam flour and saw mills, iron foundries, a brewery, &c. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the salmon fishery. The Boil is a rich loam. It is a petty-sessions town. The par. includes the tnshps. of Ord, Spittal, and Tweed- mouth. The living is a perpet. cur. in the dioc. of Durham, val. 150, in the patron, of the dean and chapter. The church, dedicated to St. Bartholomew, was built in 1783, and enlarged in 1841. In the church- yard is a gravestone to Thomas Bell, of Spittal, who died in 1791, aged 105, and a tombstone to James Stuart, a famed Border character, who died at the age of 115 years. There is a National school for both sexes, at which a Sunday-school is held; there are also a Free Scotch Church, and a chapel for the church of Scotland. An extramural cemetery was constructed in 1857, in which two chapels have been erected. The corporation of Berwick are the lords of the manor. A feast is held on the third Sunday in July. TWEEDSMUIR, a par. in co. Peebles, Scotland. It extends about 8 miles in length by the same in breadth, and is nearly a circle. It is bounded by the counties of Dumfries and Lanark, and by the parishes of Drum- melzier and Megget. The surface is hilly, rising lit Hart Fell 2,790 feet above sea-level, and at Broad-Law 2,740 feet, being the loftiest mountains in the S. of Scotland, and having neur its summit a perennial spring, designated Geddes' Well. The hills are of gentle ascent, frequently boggy on their summits, and their sides are clothed in verdure, affording excel- lent pasture for sheep. Gameshope, which is about 600 feet in diameter, is considered the loftiest lochlet in the S. of Scotland, and abounds in trout. In the vicinity are ruins of castles or border towers, &c. The village, which is about 15 miles S.W. of Peebles, and 36 from Edinburgh, is situated at the head of the river Tweed, to which the Frind, Talla, and several smaller burns flow. It formed parts of Drummelzier parish till 1643. This par. is in the presb. of Peebles and synod of Lothian and Tweeddale, and in the patron, of St. Mary's College, St. Andrew's. The stipend of the minister is about 275. The parish church was erected in 1648. There is a parochial school. TWEMLOW, a tnshp. in the par. of Sandbach, hund. of Northwich, co. Chester, 5 miles N.W. of Congleton, and 5 N.E. of Middlewich. It is situated near the Man- chester and Birmingham railway and the river Dane. It is a meet for the Cheshire hounds. TWERTON, a par. in the hund. of Wellow, co. Somerset, 1J mile S.W. of Bath, its post town. It is a station -on the Great Western railway. The village is situated on the river Avon, near the sus- pension bridges. Many of the inhabitants are em- ployed in the woollen and carpet manufacture ; there are also numerous tanneries. In the vicinity are quar- ries of lias limestone, containing ammonites and other fossils. The gaol of the city and borough of Bath stands in this parish, and the house where Fielding, the novelist, resided. The soil is clayey. The living is a vie.* in the dioc. of Bath and Wells, val. 395, in the patron, of Oriel College, Oxford. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, and recently rebuilt, has an old tower and six bells. The register dates from 1538, but is not perfect. There is a parochial school for both sexes, ut which a Sunday-school is held. The Wesleyans, Bap- tists, Primitive Methodists, and Swcdenborgians have chapels. TWEYFORD, a par. in the hund. of Dumpford, rape of Chichester, co. Sussex, 6 miles from Petersfield, its post town, and 5 S.W. of Midhurst. The living is u rect. annexed to that of Elsted, in the dioc. of Chicheater. The new church is dedicated to St. Peter, the old ono being disused. The register dates irom 1728. TWICKENHAM, a par. and suburb of the metro- polis in the S.W. postal district, hund. of Isleworth, co. Middlesex, 1 mile W. of Richmond, 3 miles S.W. of Brentford, and 9 S.W. of St. Paul's Cathedral. It is a junction station on the Windsor section of the London and South- Western railway, where the Thames Valley branches off. Its ancient name was Twittanhant, Twick- nam, and Twifnam, referring to its situation between two streams or brooks that flow into the Thames at either end of the village, which occupies a site on the road from London, through Isleworth to Hampton Court. It has long been considered ono of the most beautiful spots in the vicinity of the metropolis, with its romantic scenery, enlivened by the windings of the Thames and embellished with seats and villas. In the middle of the river, nearly opposite the village, is the island of eight acres, called Twickenham Ait, with the Eel-pie House, rebuilt in 1830, and now containing an assembly-room 50 feet by 15, much resorted to by anglers and pleasure parties. On the shore overlooking the island is Straw- berry Hill, once the residence of Sir Horace Walpole ; and a little further on, at the southern extremity of the village, is Pope's villa and grotto, recently divided into several villa residences. The par. includes the limit, of Whitton, where are Whitton Park, formerly the seat of the Duke of Argyle the naturalist, now of Miss Gostling; and Kneller Hall, built by Sir Godfrey Kneller, but recently enlarged and used by Government, first as a training school for workhouse schoolmasters,