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Mitcham Parish Church, Church Road, dates in part to the Saxon era. Eagle House, London Road, Mitcham, built in 1705. The toponym "Mitcham" is Old English in origin and means big settlement. Before the Romans and Saxons were present, it was a Celtic settlement, with evidence of a hill fort in the Pollards Hill area. The discovery of Roman-era ...
View of Mitcham Commons Map of Mitcham Common. Mitcham Common is 182 hectares (460 acres) of common land situated in south London. [1] It is predominantly in the London borough of Merton, with parts straddling the borders of Croydon and Sutton. [2] It is designated a Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. [3]
The coat of arms of the municipal borough were granted in 1934 and defined as: . Shield. A pale vert (green central vertical band), representing the green of Mitcham.The centre has a fess wavy argent (silver wavy horizontal band) charged with a barulet wavy azure (blue narrow wavy bar) to indicate the ford of north Mitcham, which was once known as Whitford.
The London Borough of Merton (/ ˈ m ɜːr t ə n / ⓘ) is a London borough in London, England.The borough was formed under the London Government Act 1963 in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.
Mitcham Junction is a National Rail station served by Southern and Thameslink trains. It also has a Tramlink stop. [ 5 ] It is in the London Borough of Merton and is in Travelcard Zone 4 .
The A217 is a road in London and Surrey in England.It runs north–south. It runs from Kings Road in Fulham, London, crosses the Thames at Wandsworth Bridge, then passes through Wandsworth, Earlsfield, Summerstown, Tooting, Mitcham, Rosehill and Sutton Common in Sutton, then Cheam.
It is bounded by Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Morden, Cheam and Cuddington (Worcester Park and rest of Motspur Park) to the south and (New) Malden to the west. The 1871 Ordnance Survey map records its area as 1,764.7 acres (7.1 km 2) (2.7 sq mi). The parish was and is centred on the 12th-century parish church of St Mary in ...
The name Mitcham and Morden is a partial misnomer — the area of the modern town centre around Morden tube station is in the Wimbledon constituency. In the middle, the former coaching stop town of Mitcham with its ancient cricket green retains some village-like characteristics and had relatively poor transport connections until the opening of ...