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The SW (South Western) postcode area, also known as the London SW postcode area, [2] is a group of 20 postcode districts within the London post town in England. The area comprises the South Western operational district (covering the subdivisions of postcode district SW1, plus SW2 - SW10) and the Battersea operational district (covering SW11 - SW20), [3] and is the only area within the London ...
The location of the station shifted the focus of the town's subsequent growth away from the original village centre. Wimbledon was a municipal borough in the county of Surrey from 1905 to 1965, [ 2 ] when it became part of the London Borough of Merton as part of the creation of Greater London .
Colliers Wood shares its postcode district of SW19 with Wimbledon. It merges into Merton Abbey . Colliers Wood has three parks: a recreation ground, the National Trust -owned Wandle Park , which covers an area of approximately 11 acres (45,000 m 2 ), and the more informal Wandle Meadow Nature Park.
The single or pair of letters chosen for postcode areas are generally intended as a mnemonic for the places served. [1] Postcode areas, post towns and postcode districts do not follow political or local authority administrative boundaries and usually serve much larger areas than the place names with which they are associated. Many post towns ...
The London postal district is the area in England of 241 square miles (620 km 2) to which mail addressed to the London post town is delivered. The General Post Office under the control of the Postmaster General directed Sir Rowland Hill to devise the area in 1856 and throughout its history it has been subject to reorganisation and division into increasingly smaller postal units, with the early ...
Postcode areas shown with former postal counties. This is a list of postcode districts in the United Kingdom and Crown Dependencies. A group of postcode districts with the same alphabetical prefix is called a postcode area. All, or part, of one or more postcode districts are grouped into post towns. [1]
Photo taken in 1912. Until the late 19th century Southfields was still fields, situated between the more developed villages of Wimbledon and Putney.Several of the former pathways through the fields form the routes of parts of today's road system, in particular Wimbledon Park Road and its continuation through Southfields Passage, which was the field path from Wimbledon to Wandsworth, Kimber ...
Merton Abbey is an area in southwest London, England.It lies between South Wimbledon and Colliers Wood in the London Borough of Merton.Merton Abbey takes its name from Merton Priory, which once stood on the northern edge of the district.