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Tardebigge is a town in Worcestershire, England.
It is most famously known for the Tardebigge locks, a flight of 30 canal locks that raise the canal over 220 feet (67 metres). The flight starts from lock 28 on the Birmingham and Worcester Canal to lock 58.
The oldest known spelling of its name is Anglo-Saxon Tærdebicga around 1000AD, but that word has no meaning as Anglo-Saxon or Celtic or Latin, and it may have come down from whatever non-Indo-European language was spoken in the area before the Celts came.
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