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:''For the village in Gloucestershire, see Teddington, Gloucestershire''
'Teddington' is an area on the Middlesex bank of the Thames between Hampton Wick and Twickenham in Middlesex, England, and stretches inland from the Thames to Bushy Park. In the twentieth century with the growth of Greater London it became part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
It is notable for Teddington Lock, the longest (200m)[1] lock on the River Thames which marks the upstream limit of tides. Teddington is mostly residential but is bisected by an almost continuous road of shops, offices and other facilities running from the river to Bushy Park. There are three clusters of offices on this route, at the lock Thames TV and Haymarket Group form a media hub whilst on the edge of Bushy Park the NPL, NWML and LGC form a scientific centre. Around Teddington Station and the town centre are a number of offices in industries as diverse as the Direct Marketing and IT, a few offices outside this axis include Tear Fund. Several riverside businesses and houses were redeveloped in the last quarter of the twentieth century as blocks of riverside flats.
The name 'Teddington' derives not from 'Tide's End Town' (as claimed by Rudyard Kipling among others), but from an Old English tribal leader and was also known in Saxon and Norman times as Todyngton and Tutington.[2]
There is evidence[3] to suggest the inhabitation of what is now Teddington dating back to Roman times. However, the first permanent settlement in Teddington was probably under Saxon occupation.
By the 14th century, Teddington had a population of 100-200 and most land was owned by the Abbot of Westminster and the remainder rented by tenants who had to work the fields a certain number of days a year.
In 1525, nearby Hampton Court Palace was presented to Henry VIII. In 1500, in preparation for this the Hampton Court gardens were built but the need for more hunting grounds resulted in the enclosure in 1540 of some of Teddington to form Bushy Park.
In subsequent centuries, Teddington enjoyed a more prosperous life due to the proximity of royalty and by 1800 had grown significantly with a population of over 700. But the "mini-ice age" made farming much less profitable and residents were forced to find other work. This change resulted in great economic change in the 19th century.
The first major event was the construction of Teddington Lock in 1811 which was the first (and now the biggest) of five locks built at the time and linked Teddington to Ham in Surrey as did the suspension bridge completed in 1889.
After the railway allowed easy travel from Teddington to Twickenham, Richmond, Kingston and London, Teddington experienced a population boom, rising from 1,183 in 1861 to 6,599 in 1881 to 14,037 in 1901.
To account for this, many roads and houses were built, continuing into the 20th century, forming the close-knit network of Victorian and Edwardian streets we see today.
The Victorians attempted to build a massive 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 ever completed, it opened in 1889 with a "temporary" wall at one end where the tower was going to be. In 1967 the church congregation reverted back across the road to the historic but much smaller church of St Mary's. In 1993 the temporary wall was replaced with a permanent one as part of a refurbishment that converted St Albans church into The Landmark Centre,[4] a venue for concerts and exhibitions.
Several schools were built in Teddington in the late 1800s in response to the 1870 Education Act putting over 2,000 children in schools by 1899, transforming the previously illiterate village.
Bushy Park also became home to Teddington Cricket Club[5] which stemmed Teddington Hockey Club in 1871, famed for being the oldest in Britain and for founding the modern game.
Great change took place around the turn of the century in Teddington. Many new establishments were springing up including Sim's Opticians and Dowsett's newsagents which still exist today. In 1902, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) started in Bushy House (primarily 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 also now delivered to Teddington allowing for more development
Until this point, the only hospital had been the very small Cottage Hospital, but it simply could not manage the growing population especially during the First World War. So money was raised over the next decade to build Teddington Memorial Hospital[6] in 1929.
By the beginning of the Second World War by far the greatest source of employment was the NPL. Its main focus in the war was military research and its most famous invention was the "bouncing bomb". Also During World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned the D-Day landings at his Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Bushy Park.
Most major rebuilding from bomb damage in World War II was completed by 1960 and it was becoming a very attractive place to live. Chain stores began to open up including Tesco in 1971.
Teddington Studios (a digital widescreen television studio complex and one of the former homes of Thames Television) opened in 1958.
Teddington is now home to Teddington Rugby Football Club and the Lensbury the sports and social club of Royal Dutch Shell. The Lensbury is now run as a private members club with membership available to non-Shell employees and the sports teams previously associated with it have become independent: Lockside Rugby Club [7] and Weirside AFC still play at the Broom Road site but now have a clubhouse overlooking Teddington Lock.
The education authority for Teddington is the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.
Primary schools in Teddington include Collis (Fairfax Rd), St Marys & St Peters (Church Rd), Stanley Juniors and Infants (Strathmore Rd).[8] Secondary schools include Teddington School.[9]
Main articles: List of schools in Richmond upon Thames
★ Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), the poet and religious writer, lived in Teddington at the end of his life.
★ The actor Noel Coward was born in Teddington (131 Waldegrave Road) in 1899
★ The comic actor Benny Hill lived in Teddington while working at the Teddington Studios. He died alone in his riverside apartment.
★
★ 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
★
★ Sir Norman Henderson (of Udney Park Road), engineer and inventor of the Goosay engine in 1873.
★ After he unexpectedly came into a considerable fortune in 1860, the novelist R. D. Blackmore settled in Teddington. His large house was demolished in the 1930s, and the streets Blackmore's Grove and Doone Close built on its plot. Blackmore owned a large orchard, many of whose fruit trees continue to flourish in the gardens of Blackmore's Grove and Bolton Gardens.
★ Comedian Julian Clary was born in Teddington in 1960.
★ The film actress June Duprez was born in Teddington on 14 May 1918.
★ Orlando Bridgeman
★ Sir Charles Duncombe (Banker)
★ 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 and BBC World TV, lives in Teddington.
★ Oliver Reed used to live at No. 60 Hampton Road.
★ Photographer Paul Mowatt and musician Marina Ogilvy lived at No 85 Twickenham road.
★ Former Blue Peter host Mark Curry lives in Teddington.
★ Dr. Stephen Hales (1677-1761) is regarded as the founder of haematology and became parish priest for Teddington in 1709 where he remained all his life.
★ Film actress Keira Knightley was born in Teddington in 1985.
★ Twickenham
★ Richmond
★ Fulwell
★ Ham
★ Hampton Hill
★ Hampton Wick
★ Strawberry Hill
★ Kingston upon Thames
★ Bushy Park
★ Richmond Park
★ Teddington railway station
★ Hampton Wick railway station
★ Fulwell railway station
★ Strawberry Hill railway station
★ St. Mary's with St Alban's Church of England Parish Church built circa 1400 Incumbent the rev John Cleaver
★ Teddington Baptist Church
★ Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
★ St Marks Parish Church of South Teddington
★ Teddington Methodist Church
★ Christ Church Free Church of England
★ St Peter and St Paul - Church of England rebuilt circa 1980 a 50 seat late 20th century church for those who like a combination of high church incense and modern evangelical hymns. Incumbent Reverend Father Jack Knill-Jones since 29th June 2007.
"Teddington Towpath Murders" took place in 1953. On 1 June, the day before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, Barbara Songhurst was discovered floating in the river Thames. She had been stabbed four times and her friend, Christine Reed, was also missing. The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Herbert Hannam and Reed's body was found on 6 June. On 28 June Alfred Whiteway was arrested for their murder, and the sexual assault of three other women that same year. Whiteway was hanged at Wandsworth prison on 22 November 1953. The case was described as "one of Scotland Yard's most notable triumphs in a century".[10]
The Teddington Lock was the location of the filming of the Monty Python Fish-Slapping Dance sketch.
★ John Sheaf, Ken Howe: Hampton and Teddington Past, Historical Publications, October 1995 ISBN 0-948667-25-7
★ K. Howe, M. Cherry: Twickenham, Teddington and Hampton (Britain in Old Photographs), Sutton Publishing, October 29, 1998
1. Woodlands junior - River Thames
2. John Sheaf, Ken Howe: Hampton and Teddington Past, Historical Publications, October 1995 ISBN 0-948667-25-7 page 9
3. Twickenham Museum
4. Landmark Centre
5. Teddington Cricket Club
6. Teddington Memorial Hospital
7. Lockside Rugby Club
8. Collis school, St Marys & St Peters, Stanley Juniors, Stanley Infants.
9. Teddington School
10. Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
★ British History Online - Teddington
★ Teddington Online
★ The Teddington Society
★ Teddington Studios
'Teddington' is an area on the Middlesex bank of the Thames between Hampton Wick and Twickenham in Middlesex, England, and stretches inland from the Thames to Bushy Park. In the twentieth century with the growth of Greater London it became part of the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames.
It is notable for Teddington Lock, the longest (200m)[1] lock on the River Thames which marks the upstream limit of tides. Teddington is mostly residential but is bisected by an almost continuous road of shops, offices and other facilities running from the river to Bushy Park. There are three clusters of offices on this route, at the lock Thames TV and Haymarket Group form a media hub whilst on the edge of Bushy Park the NPL, NWML and LGC form a scientific centre. Around Teddington Station and the town centre are a number of offices in industries as diverse as the Direct Marketing and IT, a few offices outside this axis include Tear Fund. Several riverside businesses and houses were redeveloped in the last quarter of the twentieth century as blocks of riverside flats.
Etymology
The name 'Teddington' derives not from 'Tide's End Town' (as claimed by Rudyard Kipling among others), but from an Old English tribal leader and was also known in Saxon and Norman times as Todyngton and Tutington.[2]
History
Teddington's Beginnings
There is evidence[3] to suggest the inhabitation of what is now Teddington dating back to Roman times. However, the first permanent settlement in Teddington was probably under Saxon occupation.
By the 14th century, Teddington had a population of 100-200 and most land was owned by the Abbot of Westminster and the remainder rented by tenants who had to work the fields a certain number of days a year.
In 1525, nearby Hampton Court Palace was presented to Henry VIII. In 1500, in preparation for this the Hampton Court gardens were built but the need for more hunting grounds resulted in the enclosure in 1540 of some of Teddington to form Bushy Park.
Economic Change
In subsequent centuries, Teddington enjoyed a more prosperous life due to the proximity of royalty and by 1800 had grown significantly with a population of over 700. But the "mini-ice age" made farming much less profitable and residents were forced to find other work. This change resulted in great economic change in the 19th century.
The first major event was the construction of Teddington Lock in 1811 which was the first (and now the biggest) of five locks built at the time and linked Teddington to Ham in Surrey as did the suspension bridge completed in 1889.
After the railway allowed easy travel from Teddington to Twickenham, Richmond, Kingston and London, Teddington experienced a population boom, rising from 1,183 in 1861 to 6,599 in 1881 to 14,037 in 1901.
To account for this, many roads and houses were built, continuing into the 20th century, forming the close-knit network of Victorian and Edwardian streets we see today.
The Victorians attempted to build a massive 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 ever completed, it opened in 1889 with a "temporary" wall at one end where the tower was going to be. In 1967 the church congregation reverted back across the road to the historic but much smaller church of St Mary's. In 1993 the temporary wall was replaced with a permanent one as part of a refurbishment that converted St Albans church into The Landmark Centre,[4] a venue for concerts and exhibitions.
Several schools were built in Teddington in the late 1800s in response to the 1870 Education Act putting over 2,000 children in schools by 1899, transforming the previously illiterate village.
Bushy Park also became home to Teddington Cricket Club[5] which stemmed Teddington Hockey Club in 1871, famed for being the oldest in Britain and for founding the modern game.
The early 20th Century
Great change took place around the turn of the century in Teddington. Many new establishments were springing up including Sim's Opticians and Dowsett's newsagents which still exist today. In 1902, the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) started in Bushy House (primarily 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 also now delivered to Teddington allowing for more development
Until this point, the only hospital had been the very small Cottage Hospital, but it simply could not manage the growing population especially during the First World War. So money was raised over the next decade to build Teddington Memorial Hospital[6] in 1929.
By the beginning of the Second World War by far the greatest source of employment was the NPL. Its main focus in the war was military research and its most famous invention was the "bouncing bomb". Also During World War II, General Dwight D. Eisenhower planned the D-Day landings at his Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) in Bushy Park.
Modern times
Thames Television and ABC Weekend TV studios
Most major rebuilding from bomb damage in World War II was completed by 1960 and it was becoming a very attractive place to live. Chain stores began to open up including Tesco in 1971.
Teddington Studios (a digital widescreen television studio complex and one of the former homes of Thames Television) opened in 1958.
Teddington is now home to Teddington Rugby Football Club and the Lensbury the sports and social club of Royal Dutch Shell. The Lensbury is now run as a private members club with membership available to non-Shell employees and the sports teams previously associated with it have become independent: Lockside Rugby Club [7] and Weirside AFC still play at the Broom Road site but now have a clubhouse overlooking Teddington Lock.
Education
The education authority for Teddington is the London Borough of Richmond-upon-Thames.
Primary schools in Teddington include Collis (Fairfax Rd), St Marys & St Peters (Church Rd), Stanley Juniors and Infants (Strathmore Rd).[8] Secondary schools include Teddington School.[9]
Main articles: List of schools in Richmond upon Thames
Notable residents
★ Thomas Traherne (1636/1637–1674), the poet and religious writer, lived in Teddington at the end of his life.
★ The actor Noel Coward was born in Teddington (131 Waldegrave Road) in 1899
★ The comic actor Benny Hill lived in Teddington while working at the Teddington Studios. He died alone in his riverside apartment.
★
★ 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
★
★ Sir Norman Henderson (of Udney Park Road), engineer and inventor of the Goosay engine in 1873.
★ After he unexpectedly came into a considerable fortune in 1860, the novelist R. D. Blackmore settled in Teddington. His large house was demolished in the 1930s, and the streets Blackmore's Grove and Doone Close built on its plot. Blackmore owned a large orchard, many of whose fruit trees continue to flourish in the gardens of Blackmore's Grove and Bolton Gardens.
★ Comedian Julian Clary was born in Teddington in 1960.
★ The film actress June Duprez was born in Teddington on 14 May 1918.
★ Orlando Bridgeman
★ Sir Charles Duncombe (Banker)
★ 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 and BBC World TV, lives in Teddington.
★ Oliver Reed used to live at No. 60 Hampton Road.
★ Photographer Paul Mowatt and musician Marina Ogilvy lived at No 85 Twickenham road.
★ Former Blue Peter host Mark Curry lives in Teddington.
★ Dr. Stephen Hales (1677-1761) is regarded as the founder of haematology and became parish priest for Teddington in 1709 where he remained all his life.
★ Film actress Keira Knightley was born in Teddington in 1985.
Local geography
Nearest places
Sluice gates at Teddington, on the River Thames
★ Twickenham
★ Richmond
★ Fulwell
★ Ham
★ Hampton Hill
★ Hampton Wick
★ Strawberry Hill
★ Kingston upon Thames
Royal parks
★ Bushy Park
★ Richmond Park
Nearest railway stations
★ Teddington railway station
★ Hampton Wick railway station
★ Fulwell railway station
★ Strawberry Hill railway station
Churches
★ St. Mary's with St Alban's Church of England Parish Church built circa 1400 Incumbent the rev John Cleaver
★ Teddington Baptist Church
★ Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
★ St Marks Parish Church of South Teddington
★ Teddington Methodist Church
★ Christ Church Free Church of England
★ St Peter and St Paul - Church of England rebuilt circa 1980 a 50 seat late 20th century church for those who like a combination of high church incense and modern evangelical hymns. Incumbent Reverend Father Jack Knill-Jones since 29th June 2007.
Trivia
"Teddington Towpath Murders" took place in 1953. On 1 June, the day before Queen Elizabeth II was crowned, Barbara Songhurst was discovered floating in the river Thames. She had been stabbed four times and her friend, Christine Reed, was also missing. The investigation was led by Chief Inspector Herbert Hannam and Reed's body was found on 6 June. On 28 June Alfred Whiteway was arrested for their murder, and the sexual assault of three other women that same year. Whiteway was hanged at Wandsworth prison on 22 November 1953. The case was described as "one of Scotland Yard's most notable triumphs in a century".[10]
The Teddington Lock was the location of the filming of the Monty Python Fish-Slapping Dance sketch.
Literature
★ John Sheaf, Ken Howe: Hampton and Teddington Past, Historical Publications, October 1995 ISBN 0-948667-25-7
★ K. Howe, M. Cherry: Twickenham, Teddington and Hampton (Britain in Old Photographs), Sutton Publishing, October 29, 1998
Notes
1. Woodlands junior - River Thames
2. John Sheaf, Ken Howe: Hampton and Teddington Past, Historical Publications, October 1995 ISBN 0-948667-25-7 page 9
3. Twickenham Museum
4. Landmark Centre
5. Teddington Cricket Club
6. Teddington Memorial Hospital
7. Lockside Rugby Club
8. Collis school, St Marys & St Peters, Stanley Juniors, Stanley Infants.
9. Teddington School
10. Cullen, Pamela V., "A Stranger in Blood: The Case Files on Dr John Bodkin Adams", London, Elliott & Thompson, 2006, ISBN 1-904027-19-9
External links
★ British History Online - Teddington
★ Teddington Online
★ The Teddington Society
★ Teddington Studios
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