Twyford also has one of the lowest levels of unemployment in the country.

Twyford has its own parish council, and is also in the Borough of Wokingham, and the ceremonial county of Berkshire.

Stanlake Meadow, off Waltham Road, has football pitches, a cricket square used by Twyford & Ruscombe Cricket Club and a pavilion which is also used as a nursery school.

Twyford also has a youth football club called Twyford Comets who play on both of the recreation grounds described above.

The German pharmaceutical company Twyford and the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur both make an antivenom intended for the treatment of deathstalker envenomations ; additionally, the Antivenom and Vaccine Production Center in Riyadh also produces an antivenom.

Twyford is also the junction for the Henley-on-Thames branch.

It also provides a footpath and potential cycleway across the Itchen, and acts as a partial screen between the water meadows and the elevated M3 motorway at the foot of Twyford Down.

The name " Twyford " means " two fords " ( Old English ' twifyrd '), which cross the River Itchen and was noted from as early as 963, being also mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as ' Tuiforde '.

Acton has four secondary high schools, Acton High School, Twyford Church of England School, The Ellen Wilkinson School for Girls and Barbara Speake Stage School.

Twyford Church of England School is a mixed, voluntary controlled school, which has about 60 pupils from the age of four through to the age of nine.

Twyford Railway station has been used as a television film location in Midsomer Murders and in the new BBC comedy series Mutual Friends where it is the scene of a suicide.

Along the High Street there remains a fair sprinkling of the larger houses which typified the place before 1900, often ( like Twyford House and The Wylands ) converted to public use ; some have been demolished and replaced by small infill estates ( like Penlea ); some have been retained and surrounded by other houses ( such as the former vicarage partly retaining some of the supposed priory's construction ); and some have gone altogether like the ancient manor house, of sixteenth-century appearance, which has been lost to road widening and a row of 1960s shops.

During the Battle of Britain he used to spend weekends with Warburg and his new friend Zionist Tosco Fyvel at Twyford, Berkshire.

In 684, Cuthbert was elected Bishop of Hexham, at a synod at Twyford ( believed to be present-day Alnmouth ), but was reluctant to leave his retirement and take up his charge ; it was only after a visit from a large group, including king Ecgfrith, that he agreed to return and take up the duties of bishop, but instead as Bishop of Lindisfarne, swapping with Eata, who went to Hexham instead.

As the company grew it acquired other companies and sites overseas but Cricklewood remained the most important site, with 8, 000 employees between 1937 and 1978 .< ref >< cite >' Willesden: Economic history ', A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 7: Acton, Chiswick, Ealing and Brentford, West Twyford, Willesden ( 1982 ), pp. 220 – 228.

Major growth in the direct action movement started with a concurrent focus on roads, and a protest camp at Twyford Down was started, against the M3 in Hampshire.

Due to increasing traffic, sections of the road between Kensington, over Hounslow Hill, to Twyford were turnpike by 1717 with the remaining sections placed under Turnpike Trusts.

* Empire Sandy, the Twyford is part of a duo with the ST Ashford

At this time environmentalist groups were resisting many road schemes with many road protests including at Twyford Down in Hampshire.

He was educated at Twyford School and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated with honours in 1846.

The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Twyford and the p. curacy of Thorpe-Satchville, in the diocese of Peterborough.

The living is a discharged vicarage, with that of Twyford and the chapelry of Thorp-Satchville united in 1732, valued in the king's books at £ 9.

Twyford is a village and civil parish in the English Royal county of Berkshire with a population of around 7, 000 people.

These transport links make Twyford very popular with commuters.

The main London to Bristol railway line runs along the northern boundary, with a station in the neighbouring parish of Twyford.

The opening of the line in 1903 coincided with the opening of a station at Park Royal to serve the Royal Agricultural Show held in the grounds of part of the Twyford Abbey Estate.

On 23 September 2009 the group launched a new book entitled " The New Zealand Republic Handbook ", at an event hosted at Parliament by UnitedFuture leader Peter Dunne with several current and former MPs in attendance, including Green MP Keith Locke, Labour MPs Clare Curran, Charles Chauvel, Nanaia Mahuta and Phil Twyford, and National MPs John Hayes and Paul Hutchison.

While in England at the estate of the Bishop of St Asaph in Twyford, Franklin, now 65 year old, begins by saying that it may be agreeable to his son to know some of the incidents of his father's life ; so with a week's uninterrupted leisure, he is beginning to write them down for William.

Its most famous inhabitant was William Domville Handcock, the eldest son of William Elias Handcock and a descendant of William Handcock ( Westmeath politician )| William Handcock, who came to Ireland with Oliver Cromwell's army during the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland and settled at Twyford in County Westmeath.

Twyford is served by several regular bus routes, operated by Bluestar ( bus company ) and Stagecoach Group among others, linking the village with Winchester, Eastleigh, Southampton and Fareham.

Completion of the link in 1994 removed the traffic from the existing Winchester Bypass, allowing its closure and significantly reduced heavy traffic volumes from the village of Twyford.

South Harrow station was opened on 28 June 1903 by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ) as the terminus of its new extension from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey.

Sudbury Hill station was opened on 28 June 1903 by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ) on its new extension to South Harrow from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey.

Perivale Alperton station was opened on 28 June 1903 by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ) on its new extension to South Harrow from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey.

Sudbury Town station was opened on 28 June 1903 by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ) on its new extension to South Harrow from Park Royal & Twyford Abbey.

North Ealing station was opened on 23 June 1903 by the Metropolitan District Railway ( MDR, now the District Line ) on its new extension from north of Ealing Common to Park Royal & Twyford Abbey ( closed and replaced by Park Royal in 1931 ), where the Royal Agricultural Society's Park Royal show grounds had been recently opened.

Twyford Wood, formerly known as Twyford Forest, is a commercial wood around in Lincolnshire owned by the Forestry Commission, England, an agency of the British Government and managed by its subsidiary, Forest Enterprise ( England ).

At Twyford, there have been mills since at least 1365, and a silk mill was built in 1810.

Twyford did, as the name suggests, have two fords, on the Old Bath Road to the west of the centre.

The original Fire Fly is said to have covered the from Twyford to London Paddington in 37 minutes, an average speed of, which was unprecedented in 1840.

Pope was taught to read by his aunt, and went to Twyford School in about 1698 / 99.

Off-peak service requires a change of train at Twyford.

The movement rapidly grew from the 1992 Twyford Down protests, culminating in 1997.

The town enjoyed great economic success during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, serving as home to several factories, breweries, an important railroad stop for local coal and timber, and briefly the Twyford Motor Car Company, which operated from 1905 to 1907 and produced the world's first 4-wheel drive automobile.

Theodore called other synods, in September 680 at Hatfield, Hertfordshire, confirming English orthodoxy in the Monothelite controversy, and circa 684 at Twyford, near Alnwick in Northumbria.

in Brixton, London, in Autumn 1991 and was born out of anti-road protest camps at places such as Claremont Road and Twyford Down.

Price was born Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose-Price in Twyford in Berkshire, son of Brigadier-General Thomas Rose Caradoc Price and his wife Dorothy, née Verey.

Heading south after you will approach the small hamlet, Twyford Wharf, where you can turn a narrow boat up to.

Harrison attended Badgemore Primary school in Henley-on-Thames, then Dolphin School near Twyford, a Montessori method school.

It was opened in sections starting in 1968 and was eventually completed in 1995 in the face of widespread opposition to the section past Winchester that now passes through Twyford Down.

The final route, though Twyford Down resulted in major road protests between 1991 and 1995 when the final section of the motorway was finally opened.

It runs through a deep cutting in Twyford Down and then proceeds south west again, crossing the South Western Railway Main Line a second time alongside the River Itchen and back into a more urban environment before crossing the Eastleigh to Romsey railway line and ending at the Chilworth Roundabout on the fringes of Southampton.

The Dongas Tribe was a collection of UK road protesters and travellers in England originally noted for their occupation of Twyford Down outside Winchester, Hampshire.

This had somehow been given by Winchester locals to the deep drovers ' tracks on Twyford Down.

Following " Yellow Wednesday ", when hordes of police and security guards invaded the camp to bulldoze the area, the Dongas Tribe left Twyford Down for Bramdean Common.

It was here in 1993 that the Dongas road protest group moved after being driven from Twyford Down by bulldozers.

Twyford Down is a small area of ancient chalk downland lying directly to the southeast of Winchester, Hampshire, England.

The land required, east of the city on Twyford Down, was owned by Winchester College, which refused to sell the land to the government because part was a water meadow.

Proposals were made for a tunnel through Twyford Down, but the estimated cost for this was £ 75 million more than the estimated cost for a cutting, and the government dismissed the plans.