Teddington, Gloucestershire

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Teddington is a village and parish in Gloucestershire, England.

The village boasts a very attractive church that is probably over a thousand years old. The interior wall has a partially faded mural of the Lion and the Unicorn that may date from the seventeenth century.

The village has a population of less than 300, of which the majority are professional commuters and elderly pensioners. It has an archaic (non-functioning) water pump, a delightful village hall and some property dating from the eighteenth century and earlier. Nearby is the pub of Teddington Hands, the name of which refers to the crossroads sign that was renovated as part of the Millennium celebrations. Opposite the pub and outside the Texaco service station is a modest standing stone of purportedly mystical significance and probably more than two thousand years old.

The major events in Teddington's history are generally of a modest kind. Its relative prosperity has waxed and waned over the centuries, but it currently shares in the general prosperity of the county of Gloucestershire.

In recent years the village has been host to an unpleasant murder in 1993 where a male resident, who worked as a computer analyst, killed his wife and two children, before killing himself two days later. There are two well-tended tombstones in the church graveyard that mark this horrendous murder, This incident and the fact that the notorious murderer Rosie West once worked on a farm in the village are utterly untypical of a village where the main topics of concern are of a decidedly peaceful nature.

Although very small, Teddington is one of the many jewels of Gloucestershire, surrounded by fields and woodland, and on the route of many recommended Gloucestershire walks.