Whitton is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It was part of the ancient parish of Twickenham, of which it was long a semi-rural part. This changed when it acquired its own railway station; it is the only modern district of Twickenham which is north of the River Crane and is somewhat characterised by the only dual carriageway in the area, with a pub-hotel on the route. Its greater conversion of land use into housing and evolution into a small town in the former county of Middlesex took place from c. 1930–1960 and it has a central cluster of shops, banks and other businesses.