Teddington

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.

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
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.

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