Teddington is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, south west London. Traditionally part of the former county of Middlesex, it is on the north bank of the Thames though faces the other way being just after the start of a long meander, between Hampton Wick and the equally affluent area of Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. It stretches from the Thames to Bushy Park with a long high street reaching down to pubs, restaurants, leisure premises, fields and fitness clubs by the riverside, having a suspension pedestrian bridge over the lowest non-tidal lock on the Thames, Teddington Lock. Teddington has no dual carriageways or high-rise residential buildings and its centre is mid-rise urban development.
Population: 9,615
Latitude: 51° 25' 20.39" N
Longitude: 0° 19' 49.91" E
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