Twickenham Urban District Council (UDC), consisting of 24 councillors representing 4 wards, replaced the local board.

[1] The local board met in rented rooms until 1881, when it moved to Queen's Hall in King Street.

The name "Twickenham" means two ways (roads) settlement or two-farm settlement, and the main device on the shield was a green pall or Y-shaped figure to illustrate the first reading which also resembles the arms of Diocese of Canterbury, which had historical links with the area.

These represented Twickenham's first appearance in historical records where Waldhere, Bishop of London was granted land in AD 704.

The three red roses came from the arms of William of Wykeham (d. 1404) who had built the tower of the parish church of St Mary.