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The Council’s Village Plan for Strawberry Hill, as published in 2012, defined a smaller village than that which residents have been used to for more than 100 years.

Strawberry Hill has never been a administrative area - the majority of the housing was built between 1880 and 1940 and the area assumed the name of the grandest house in the area -Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill. Since then, the name has been used informally to describe the general area centered on the station and the shops.

When this association was formed in 1965, a precise boundary was defined (see Membership) for the twin purposes of confining membership to those homes which consider themselves to be in Strawberry Hill and to limit the distribution of the Bulletin to those homes. This has been the undisputed boundary since then.

The Council’s Plan excluded about 800 homes out of the 2450 homes in our area and placed them in the Twickenham ‘village’. These roads are in the Northern and Western part of the area (shown in red on the map below, which also shows the SHRA-defined boundary in black). Not unreasonably, residents who had previously considered themselves to be in Strawberry Hill, using the shops and the station and feeling part of the village community, did not consider themselves as living in Twickenham and felt let down by the Council. They wanted the Council to recognise these strong feelings and use our boundaries. We fully supported their desires.

We are delighted to report that the Council agreed to our complete proposal and Strawberry Hill village remains the same.

Village Plan