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About Teddington...
Welcome to the Middlesex village of Teddington, in the Royal Borough of Richmond-Upon-Thames
and possibly the best place to live in London !
Here you will find out how to get to Teddington, by plane, train, bus, car or foot,
what is here to see and what to do when you are here...
Teddington, possibly originally 'Tide-End-Town', is located at the highest point of the tidal River Thames,
between the former Royal Hunting Parks of Richmond, Bushey Park and Hampton Court
 Hampton Court
, part of the parkland to the west of London that includes Wimbledon Common,
 Kew Gardens ,
and Old Deer Park, Richmond.
The town of Kingston-Upon-Thames, the site of the Coronation of the early English Kings is up river
by some two miles and the historic mansions of
 Ham House
and 
Marble Hill House, by the town of
Twickenham, are just downstream.
It remained a small, quiet semi-rural village, until early Victorian days.
The expansion of the railway to London created the suburban existance today as people could start living
in comfort in the countryside while working in the city.
During the Second World War, it became one of the most important strategic places in the world - SHAEF,
or Strategic Headquarters for the Allied Expeditionary Forces, was based in a massive temporary site
in Bushey Park, from where General Eisenhower planned the D-Day Landings...
Teddington is perhaps best known, to us '30-somethings' anyway, as the home of Thames Television Studios,
with the childrens programme 'Magpie' broadcast from our back garden in the 70's.
 Thames TV
lost the ITV London franchise in the 80's, but remains a major independent studio, with many well known TV
programmes currently made there including 'This is your Life', 'Kilroy', 'Men Behaving Badly'
and 'Birds of a Feather'. Free audience tickets for the recordings are widely available.
Teddington is also the home of the National Physical Laboratory
NPL
(where official UK time is measured amongst much else),
and National Chemist laboratory. Here, across a large water tank, Barnes Wallace is supposed to have fired
his golf ball catapult that inspired the design of the famous Dambusters 'Bouncing Bomb'
Today the divisions between the towns of Kingston, Twickenham, Hampton and Hanworth are largely blurred,
but Teddington has still partly retained a 'village' feel'.
For historical information, try
 'The Teddington Society' website...
For information on what's on in Teddington,
try the excellent
 'What's on Teddington' site
For local facilities,
contact
 'London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames' site...
TRAVELLING TO TEDDINGTON
By TRAIN & TUBE
Teddington is part of the South West Trains (SWT) network out of London Waterloo and one of the most hated
post-privatisation train companies - not least since the franchise is owned by union-busting, monopolistic Stagecoach Plc.
Trains operate from Waterloo via Clapham Junction to Wimbledon, Kingston and Teddington before routing either to Shepperton
or back to Waterloo via Twickenham, Richmond and Putney.
It means that there is a London service 4 times an hour, taking around 30 minutes in either direction.
The lines meet with the tube network at Richmond, Wimbledon and Vauxhall stations.
For more details, try the RAILTRACK site
or the LONDON TRANSPORT site
By BUS
London Transport offers links between Teddington and Heathrow (285), Twickenham (281),
Hounslow (281), Surbiton (281) and Kingston (285,281) from close by and many more destinations
from Teddington village
Contact London Transport for local buses and links to Heathrow ...
By FOOT
Try walking along the 'Thames path', the long distance riverside footpath from
the Thames Source in Oxfordshire through to the estuary.
Locally it runs along the river by some lovely waterside pubs and via Hampton Court up to
Richmond and on to Kew, Chiswick and Putney.
Street map.......showing the village. the river and the local area...
By ROAD
From the North - M25, M4, Jct.2, A312, A313
From the South - M25 Jct9, A243, Kingston, A310
From the South West - M25, M3, A316, A313
From North London - North Circular A406, South Circular A205, A307, Richmond, A316, A310
From South London - South Circular, A3, A308, A238 or A2043 to Kingston, A310
Street map........covering most of west London...
By AIR
Links to London Airports...
BAA - British Airports Authority
- BAA runs Heathrow, Gatwick & Stansted Airports...
Did someone say 'monopoly' ?...
London HEATHROW Terminals 1,2,3,4
- 7 miles NW. About 25 minutes drive, £12 taxi or 80p 285 bus!
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London Heathrow Terminal 1 - British Airways UK & European
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London Heathrow Terminal 2 - Other European Flights
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London Heathrow Terminal 3 - Longhaul and a few odd BA longhaul flights that can't fit into...
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London Heathrow Terminal 4 - British Airways Longhaul & Athens, Paris, Moscow, Amsterdam
London GATWICK North and South Terminals - 25 miles SW. About 50 minutes drive, train via Clapham Junction
or slow bus direct to Kingston
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London Gatwick North Terminal British Airways
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London Gatwick South Terminal Most Other Flights
- London STANSTED - Miles away, somewhere near the M11 and Cambridge - What are you doing there?
Home of 'Go' & Ryanair...
- London LUTON - Almost as bad, actually about 90 minutes drive somewhere off the M1.
Home of EasyJet & Debonair before it went bust...
- London CITY - Convenient for Docklands, but nowhere else. I dare you to try and get there...
It'll take far longer than your flight...
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