Teddington Park is a neighbourhood in

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, Canada. It is bordered by

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to the west and

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to the east, and from Snowden Road in the south to north of Glen Echo Road and Rosedale Golf Club. Development occurred in and around the 1930s, and was farmland before that time. The neighbourhood is primarily residential (mostly home to the affluent) with only a small stretch of retail businesses along Yonge Street, in addition to the Rosedale Golf Club.

Transportation

Via Yonge Street Teddington Park is connected to Highway 401 within a five- to ten-minute drive. Glen Echo Drive is the main local street in the area. Mount Pleasant Road and Yonge Streets are the major roads in the area.

Glen Echo

Glen Echo Road was the terminus of the

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radial line until 1947. From 1892 to 1930 it was served by the

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. The terminus hosted a large terminal structure, car barn and freight shed were located northwest of Glen Echo Road. After the end of the radial line, the site became

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's Glen Echo Loop serving North Yonge buses (1948-1956), later replaced with the 59 North Yonge (1956-1977) and the current 97 Yonge bus (1977–present). The bus loop was no longer in use (terminal shed demolished in 1976-1977) in the late 1970s and the car barn became a dealership and North York Township Market; those were demolished (1985–87), and the site is currently occupied by a

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supermarket. The Yonge-University-Spadina line runs on the western boundary of Teddington Park. There are no subway stations within the neighbourhood, though both

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and Lawrence Station are nearby.

Notable people

* William McDougall was born and owned land in the area of Lawrence and Yonge (northeast side) to the north of farm land of Peter Lawrence Jacob Lawrence.

References

External links

City of Toronto - Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills neighbourhood profile
{{authority control Neighbourhoods in Toronto North York