Area of South West London, England

human settlement in England
Teddington is a suburb in southwest London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. In 2021, Teddington was named as the best put to live in London by The Sunday Times. [ citation needed ] Historically in Middlesex, Teddington is situated on a long ramble of the Thames between Hampton Wick and Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. Mostly residential, it stretches from the river to Bushy Park with a long high street of shops, restaurants and pubs. There is a suspension bridge over the lowest non-tidal lock on the Thames, Teddington Lock. At Teddington ‘s center is a mid-rise urban development, containing offices and apartments.

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economy [edit ]

Teddington is bisected by an about continuous road of shops, offices and other facilities running from the river to Bushy Park. There are two clusters of offices on this route ; on the edge of Bushy Park the National Physical Laboratory, National Measurement Office and LGC form a scientific kernel. Around Teddington station and the town concentrate are a number of offices in industries such as lineal market and IT, which include Tearfund and BMT Limited. several riverside businesses and houses were redeveloped in the stopping point quarter of the twentieth century as blocks of riverbank flats. As of 2016 the riverside site of the former Teddington Studios was being developed to provide modern apartment blocks and early smaller houses. [ 2 ] The bottommost lock on the Thames, Teddington Lock, which is just within Ham ‘s boundary, is accessible via the Teddington Lock Footbridges. In 2001 the Royal National Lifeboat Institution opened the Teddington Lifeboat Station, one of four Thames lifeboat stations, below the lock on the Teddington side. The place became functional in January 2002 and is the only volunteer post on the river .

history [edit ]

etymology [edit ]

The identify was known in Saxon and Norman times as Todyngton and Tutington. [ 3 ]

Teddington ‘s beginnings [edit ]

tram at Teddington in about 1905 Bushy House was built in 1663, and its luminary residents included british Prime Minister Lord North who lived there for over twenty years. [ 4 ] There have been isolated findings of flint and bone tools from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Bushy Park and some unauthenticated tell of Roman occupation. [ 5 ] however, the first permanent settlement in Teddington was credibly in Saxon times. Teddington was not mentioned in Domesday Book as it was included under the Hampton entrance. Teddington Manor was inaugural owned by Benedictine monks in Staines and it is believed they built a chapel dedicated to St. Mary on the lapp web site as today ‘s St. Mary ‘s Church. In 971, a charter gave the domain in Teddington to the Abbey of Westminster. By the fourteenth hundred Teddington had a population of 100–200 ; most of the farming was owned by the Abbot of Westminster and the remainder was rented by tenants who had to work the fields a certain number of days a class. [ citation needed ] The Hampton Court gardens were laid out in 1500 in readiness for the plan rebuild of a 14th-century manor to form Hampton Court Palace in 1521 and were to serve as hunting grounds for Cardinal Wolsey and subsequently Henry VIII and his class. In 1540 some common land of Teddington was enclosed to form Bushy Park and acted as more hound grounds. A large minority of the parish lie in largely communal open fields, restricted in the Middle Ages to sealed villagers. These were inclosed ( privatised ) in two phases, in 1800 and 1818. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Shortly afterwards, the Duke of Clarence lived there with his mistress Dorothy Jordan [ 8 ] before he became King William IV, and late with his Queen Consort, Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen. The facilities were later converted into the National Physical Laboratory .

economic change [edit ]

In subsequent centuries, Teddington enjoyed a comfortable life due to the proximity of royalty, and by 1800 had grown significantly. But the “ short Ice Age “ had made farming a lot less profitable and residents were forced to find early work. This change resulted in big economic change in the nineteenth century. The first major event was the structure of Teddington Lock in 1811 with its weir across the river. [ 9 ] This was the first ( and now the biggest ) of five locks built at the time by the City of London Corporation. In 1889 Teddington Lock Footbridge, consisting of a suspension bridge section and a girder bridge section, was completed, linking Teddington to Ham ( then in Surrey, now in London ). It was funded by local business and public subscription. After the railway was built in 1863, easily travel to Twickenham, Richmond, Kingston and London was possible and Teddington experienced a population boom, rising from 1,183 in 1861 to 6,599 in 1881 and 14,037 in 1901. [ 10 ] many roads and houses were built, continuing into the twentieth century, forming the close-knit net of victorian and edwardian streets portray nowadays. In 1867, a local circuit board was established and an urban district council in 1895. In 1864 a group of Christians left the Anglican Church of St. Mary ‘s ( upset at its high church tendencies ) and formed their own independent and Reformed, Protestant-style, congregation at Christ Church. Their original church service build stood on what is now Church Road. The Victorians attempted to build a large church, St. Alban ‘s, based on the Notre Dame de Paris ; however, funds ran out and only the nave of what was to be the “ Cathedral of the Thames Valley ” was completed. [ 11 ] In 1993 the temp wall was replaced with a permanent matchless as part of a renovation that converted St Alban ‘s Church into the Landmark Arts Centre, a venue for concerts and exhibitions. A fresh cemetery, Teddington Cemetery, opened at Shacklegate Lane in 1879. [ 12 ] respective schools were built in Teddington in the late nineteenth hundred in reception to the 1870 Education Act, putting over 2,000 children in schools by 1899, transforming the previously ignorant greenwich village .

twentieth hundred [edit ]

On 26 April 1913 a train was about destroyed in Teddington after an arson attack by suffragettes. [ 13 ] Great change took place around the turn of the twentieth century in Teddington. many new establishments were springing up, including Sims opticians and Dowsett ‘s newsagents, which even exist today. In 1902 the National Physical Laboratory ( NPL ), the national measurement standards lab for the United Kingdom, and the largest apply physics arrangement in the UK, started in Bushy House ( chiefly working in industry and metrology and where the first accurate atomic clock was built ) and the Teddington Carnegie Library was built in 1906. electricity was besides now supplied to Teddington, allowing for more exploitation. Until this detail, the entirely hospital had been the identical belittled bungalow hospital, but it could not accommodate the growing population, particularly during the First World War. Money was raised over the next decade to build Teddington Memorial Hospital [ 14 ] in 1929.

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By the get down of the Second World War, by far the greatest source of employment in Teddington was in the NPL. [ citation needed ] Its independent focus in the war was military research and its most celebrated invention, the “ bounce turkey “, was developed. During the war General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned the D-Day landings at his Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ( SHAEF ) at Camp Griffiss in Bushy Park .
The “ towpath murders “ took place across the river in 1953. On 1 June, Barbara Songhurst was discovered float in the River Thames, having been stabbed four times. Her friend Christine Reed, then missing, was found dead on 6 June. On 28 June, Alfred Whiteway was arrested for their murder and the intimate assault of three other women that same class. Whiteway was hanged at Wandsworth Prison on 22 November 1953. Whiteway and the girls were all from Teddington. The sheath was described as “ one of Scotland Yard ‘s most noteworthy triumph in a century ”. [ 15 ] Teddington Studios, a digital widescreen television studio complex and one of the early homes of Thames Television, opened in 1958. Most major rebuilding from bombard damage in World War II was completed by 1960. Chain stores began to open up, including Tesco and Sweatshop in 1971 .

The Teddington Society [edit ]

The Teddington Society, formed in 1973 by local anesthetic residents, seeks to preserve the character of Teddington and to support local community projects. [ 16 ]

education [edit ]

The department of education authority for Teddington is Richmond upon Thames London Borough Council. primary schools in Teddington include Collis Primary School ( Fairfax Road ), St Mary ‘s & St Peter ‘s chief School ( Church Road ), Sacred Heart RC School ( St Marks Road ) and Stanley Juniors and Infants ( Strathmore Road ). [ 17 ] Secondary schools include Teddington School. [ 18 ] St Mary ‘s & St Peter ‘s primary School was originally founded by Dorothy Bridgeman ( d. 1697 ), widow of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who left £40 to buy bring in faith for educating poor children. In 1832, the initiation opened a boys ‘ school, Teddington Public School, under the patronage of Queen Adelaide. Its buildings now house the primary school. [ 19 ]

leisure [edit ]

The Landmark Arts Centre, an freelancer charity, delivers a varied arts and education program for the local anesthetic and wider community. Its activities include arts classes, concerts and exhibitions. [ 20 ]

sport [edit ]

Cricket and hockey clubs in Bushy Park

In the former nineteenth hundred, Bushy Park became home to Teddington Cricket Club. [ 21 ] From this, stemmed Teddington Hockey Club in 1871, which was responsible for introducing authoritative rules of the modern plot of field hockey including the mint circle and the “ sticks ” govern. [ 22 ] [ 23 ]

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Nearest railway stations [edit ]

Teddington railroad track station, served by South Western Railway trains, is on the electrify Kingston Loop Line close to the articulation of the Shepperton Branch Line. Trains run both ways to London Waterloo : one way via Kingston upon Thames and Wimbledon every 15 minutes, the other via Richmond and Putney every 30 minutes. Trains besides run to Shepperton every 30 minutes .

Buses [edit ]

Teddington is served by London Buses services to early London locations, including Heathrow Airport, West Croydon and Hammersmith. Routes 33, 281, 285, 481, 681, R68 and X26 serve the town center, and all seven connect the town with either Twickenham or Kingston upon Thames. [ 25 ]

geography [edit ]

demography and housing [edit ]

2011 Census homes

Ward
Detached
Semi-detached
Terraced
Flats and apartments
Caravans/temporary/mobile homes/houseboats
Shared between households[1]

(ward)
339
972
1,217
2,065
1
22

2011 Census households

Ward
Population
Households
% Owned outright
% Owned with a loan
hectares[1]

(ward)
10,330
4,853
31
35
427

Places of worship [edit ]

luminary residents [edit ]

only luminary people with entries on Wikipedia have been included. Their parentage or residency has been verified by citations .

Living people [edit ]

historical figures [edit ]

Notes and references [edit ]

farther reading [edit ]

  • Sheaf, John; Howe, Ken. Hampton and Teddington Past, Historical Publications, 1995. ISBN 0-948667-25-7
  • Howe, Ken; Cherry, Mike. Twickenham, Teddington and Hampton in Old Photographs: A Second Selection (Britain in Old Photographs), Sutton Publishing, 1998. ISBN 978-0750916950