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For the village in Gloucestershire, see Teddington, Gloucestershire

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.

For many years a small vllage of farms and orchards, Teddington expanded greatly after the arrival of the railway service to Waterloo station in 1864. The town centre is surrounded by a close-knit network of Victorian and Edwardian streets, and boasts a fine Carnegie library. The Victorian residents attempted to build a massive church, St Alban's, modelled on the Notre Dame in Paris; however, funds ran out and only the knave of what was to be the "Cathedral of the Thames Valley" was ever completed. Today it is the Landmark Centre, a popular venue for concerts and exhibitions.

Shopping on the High Street and Broad Street is a mix of independent and chain stores. Aside from two office developments close to the railway station, the centre of Teddington is largely untouched by large, modern buildings; however, larger houses and ample gardens are frequently giving way to denser developments of flats and townhouses.

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 Lensbury Club, the Teddington Rugby Football Club, and the Teddington Hockey Club (the oldest hockey club of the world).

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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.

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