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The article discusses the dwelling of English writer Horace Walpole. In the spring of 1747, Horace Walpole, making use of a portion of the more than £3,400 annual income his father, the great First Minister Robert Walpole had secured for him, purchased a house and five acres overlooking the River Thames in Twickenham, London, England. The eminence on which the house was situated was known locally as Strawberry Hill. The house itself had been given a variant of that name in the previous century.