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| 1709 |
| | | Sir Godfrey Kneller buys and demolishes an earlier house and builds a new house, Whitton Hall, which is later known as Kneller Hall, on the site. | |
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| c. 1710 |
| | | James Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, commissions John James to design his new house, to become known later as Orleans House. | |
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| 1713 April 9 |
| | | Nave and chancel of St Mary's Church collapse leaving only the fifteenth-century tower, itself the survivor of an earlier building. | |
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| c. 1718 |
| | | The Octagon, a garden pavilion designed by James Gibbs, is added to Orleans House. | |
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| 1719 |
| | | Alexander Pope comes to live in Twickenham and leases some riverside land with several small cottages. | |
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| 1720 |
| | | Pope builds a villa, in the Palladian style. | |
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| 1722 |
| | | Whitton Park is bought by Archibald Campbell, Lord Ilay, later third Duke of Argyll. | |
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| 1722 |
| | | John Robartes, later fourth Earl of Radnor, leases Radnor House. | |
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| 1722 |
| | | Thomas Twining 1 buys a property next to St Mary's Church and redevelops the building which becomes known as Dial House. | |
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| 1723 |
| | | Sir Godfrey Kneller dies and leaves Kneller Hall to his widow Susannah. | |
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