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 Birmingham and Worcester Canal over 220 feet (67 metres). The flight runs from lock 28 to lock 58.
The oldest known spelling of its name is Anglo-Saxon Tærdebicga around the end of the first millenium, but that word has no known meaning in Anglo-Saxon or Celtic or Latin, so it may have come down from whatever non-Indo-European language was spoken in the area before the Celts arrived in the area.
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