Twyford

Twyford is a lively village, well-served with shops, schools, and community facilities.  The original settlement of Twyford developed at the point where the London-Bath Road crossed the River Loddon. On the Old Bath Road stand almshouses which were erected in 1640 by Sir Richard Harrison and later endowed by Lady Frances Winchcombe. A Latin inscription dedicates this charity "To God and the poor".

Housing

Twyford remained an agriculturally based settlement until the opening of the Great Western railway and the station in the 1840s. The area between the station and the Old Bath Road was developed for housing between 1860 and 1900. The parish church of St Mary was built in 1847 and the Congregational church in 1897.

The greatest expansion has taken place since the Second World War, and chiefly in the last 20 years, in the form of housing estate development to the north, east and south and within the village itself. Its original role as an agricultural settlement has changed with the growth of fast communications to London and Reading and its residents are employed largely outside the immediate area.

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