Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Telford, PA

Telford is a borough that straddles the county line between Bucks and Montgomery counties — one side of its Main Street lies in Bucks County and the other in Montgomery County.

The Telford area, originally inhabited by the Lenape, began to be settled in 1719 by Mennonites from the Palatinate region of Germany.

Telford was first known as Hendrick's Blacksmith and then as County Line, until 1857, when the North Pennsylvania Railroad named its new station there after the famed civil engineer Thomas Telford.

Telford was incorporated on November 10, 1886, and a separate Borough of West Telford was incorporated in 1897; voters approved consolidation, and the two merged into the modern Borough of Telford on January 11, 1935.

Telford's population was 4,928 at the 2020 census, and the census counted 2,127 households in the borough that year.

From 1901 to 1951, the Lehigh Valley Transit interurban trolley known as the Liberty Bell Limited ran through Telford between Allentown and Philadelphia, and SEPTA passenger trains on the former Reading Bethlehem Branch served the town until 1981.

Telford covers just 1.01 square miles, all of it land, and no numbered highways pass directly through the borough.

Telford has a hot-summer humid continental climate and typically receives between 30 and 36 inches of snow each winter.

Former Major League Baseball catcher Erik Kratz was born in Telford in 1980.