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Template:Infobox London place Teddington is a place in Middlesex, England in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. The town is notable for Teddington Lock, which is the longest lock on the River Thames and marks the upstream limit of tides. The name 'Teddington' doesn't derive from 'Tide's End Town' (as claimed by Rudyard Kipling among others), but from an Old English tribal leader.
Teddington is also home to Bushy Park (one of the Royal Parks), Teddington Studios (a digital widescreen television studio complex and one of the former homes of Thames Television), the National Physical Laboratory (the United Kingdom's national standards laboratory, where the first accurate atomic clock was built and bouncing bomb designs tested during WWII), the Teddington Rugby Football Club, and the Teddington Hockey Club (the oldest hockey club of the world).
Famous residents
- The actor Noel Coward was born in Teddington in 1899
- The comic actor Benny Hill lived in Teddington while working at the Teddington Studios
- Two-Ton Ted, one of the characters in Benny Hill's number one hit "Ernie", also hailed from Teddington ("...called Two-Ton Ted from Teddington and he drove the baker's van...").
- The mathematician Alan Turing worked at the National Physical Laboratory
- The popular Georgian actress Peg Woffington lived in Teddington after her retirement
- The actress Keira Knightley was born in Teddington on 26 March 1985 and went to local comprehensive Teddington School
- After he unexpectedly came into a considerable fortune in 1860, the novelist R. D. Blackmore settled in Teddington
- The camp comedian Julian Clary was born in Teddington in 1950
- The film actress June Duprez was born in Teddington on 14 May 1918
- Sir Orlando Bridgeman
- Sir Charles Duncombe
- The founder of the Times newspaper, John Walter, died in Teddington in 1812
- The Russian liberal exile Alexander Herzen lived in Elmfield House in Teddington from 1863 to 1864, where he was visited by Giuseppe Garibaldi
- Alastair Yates, presenter of BBC News 24 & BBC World TV, lives in Teddington
- Oliver Reed used to live at No. 60 Hampton Road.
- Sir Daragh Conor lived in Teddington.
- Musician, Rufus Ferrabee, lives and works in Teddington
Local geography
Nearest places
- Twickenham
- Kingston upon Thames
- Richmond upon Thames
- Ham
- Petersham
- Hampton
- Norbiton
- Surbiton
- Feltham
- Strawberry Hill
Nearest railway stations
- Teddington railway station
- Hampton Wick railway station
- Fulwell railway station
- St. Margarets railway station
Churches in Teddington
Literature
- John Sheaf, Ken Howe: Hampton and Teddington Past, Historical Publications, October 1995
- K. Howe, M. Cherry: Twickenham, Teddington and Hampton (Britain in Old Photographs), Sutton Publishing, October 29, 1998
Trivia
The Teddington Lock was the location of the filming of the Monty Python Fish-Slapping Dance sketch.
External links
- National Physical Laboratory
- Teddington Hockey Club
- Teddington Online
- Teddington Restaurants
- Teddington Rugby Football Club
- Teddington Studios
- Teddington Swimming Club
- The Teddington Society
- Wot? - What's Online for Teddington?
- British History Online - Teddington
- The Twickenham Museum
- Churches Together in Teddington
- Teddington Baptist Church
