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TEDDINGTON, Worcestershire
"TEDDINGTON, a chapelry in the parish of Overbury, middle division of Oswaldslow hundred, county Worcester, 5 miles N.E. of Tewkesbury, its post town, and 21 E. of Ashchurch station on the Bristol and Birmingham railway. In the vicinity is a finger-post, with a singular inscription upon it, pointing to five different roads. The Cheltenham stag hounds meet here. The living is a curacy annexed to the vicarage of Overbury, in the diocese of Worcester. The church, dedicated to St. Nicholas, is an ancient structure with a tower and two bells."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868)
Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Historical Geography
- "Vicarage, united with Overbury (Worcestershire), of which it
was anciently a chapelry. Worcester Diocese. Transferred [to Gloucestershire]
from Worcestershire, 1931."
(Ref: Guide to the Parish Records of the City of Bristol and the County of Gloucester; I. Gray & E. Ralph, 1963)
See also: Blockley, Chaceley, Cutsdean.