Teddington
Major Settlement in the Parish of Teddington
Historical Forms
- Teottingtun 780 BCS286 11th
- Teotingtun 780 Middleton c.1000
- Teotintun 964 BCS1135 12th DB 1086
- Teottincgtun 969 BCS1233
- Teodintun, Tidingctun 977 KCD617 11th
- Teothintun, Theotinctun 11th Heming
- Tetintona c.1086 EveA 1190
- Tedintona c.1086 EveB 1190 Cur 1201 SR 1275,1327 VE 1535
- Totinton 1202 Cur
- Todinton 1203 Cur
- Tedington 1246 FF
- Thedinton 1355 Pat
Etymology
'Teotta's farm,' v. ingtun , cf. Tettenhall (St), Teotanheale ASC s.a. 910. The name Tēotta is not on record, but we have Teoda and (in place-names) its diminutive Teodec . These last are clearly pet-forms from names in þēod -. There must have been another pet-form with t for d , and indeed the forms of this place-name suggest that both were in use here. Such alternative forms with voiced and unvoiced consonants respectively are not uncommon. There has been much confusion between Teddington and Alstone (Wo) and Tiddington and Alveston (Wa), which were also estates belonging to the Bishops of Worcester. This was not confined to modern editors. The form in the second reference is altered from an earlier Tidingtun .