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Teddington in Middlesex County England History and GeographyTEDDINGTON, a parish in the hundred of SPELTHORNE, county of MIDDLESEX, 11 miles (S.W. by W.) from London, containing 863 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the jurisdiction of the Commissary of London, concurrently with the Consistorial Court of the Bishop of London, and in the patronage of the Earl of Bradford. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, is principally in the later style of English architecture: it contains the remains of Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who died in 1674, and of Dr. Stephen Hall, Clerk of the Closet to the Princess of Wales, mother of George III., and fifty-one years minister of this parish, to which he was a most liberal benefactor: he died in 1761. The village stands on the western bank of the Thames, on the road from London, through Isleworth, to Hampton Court. Here are the wax bleaching grounds and candle manufactory of Messrs. Barclay, the largest and most complete establishment of the kind in the kingdom. During the summer months, nearly four acres of ground are covered with wax, of which about two hundred thousand pounds are annually bleached, and in winter formed into candles by hand. Connected with this manufactory is a very extensive one of spermaceti, chiefly carried on in Leicester-square by the same firm. Twelve girls are instructed for £20 a year, the rent of certain cottages and land purchased with £40 left by Dame Dorothy Bridgeman, and a smaller sum from the parish funds. Bushy Park, the usual country residence of William IV. and his queen Adelaide, before their accession to the throne, is partly in this parish. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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