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is a borough in Bucks and Montgomery counties in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The population was 4,680 at the 2000 census.
Originally inhabited by the Lenape, the area surrounding Telford began to be settled in 1719 by Mennonites from the Rhenish Palatinate. Around 1860 the town known as
(the area had previously been known as Hendrick’s Blacksmith) changed its name to Telford after the North Pennsylvania Railroad Company named their new station located there after the civil engineer Thomas Telford.
Telford Borough was incorporated in 1886 in Bucks County, whereas West Telford Borough was incorporated in Montgomery County in 1887. In 1936 a state law—which prohibited the boundaries of a borough from extending into another county—was changed and the two boroughs merged to form a single