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Mitcham is an area within the London Borough of Merton in South London, England. It is centred 7.2 miles (11.6 km) southwest of Charing Cross . Originally a village in the county of Surrey , today it is mainly a residential suburb , and includes Mitcham Common .
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Mitcham was made an urban district in 1915, which was incorporated to become the municipal borough of Mitcham in 1934. [4] The modern borough was created in 1965 under the London Government Act 1963, covering the combined area of the former boroughs of Mitcham and Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District. The area was transferred from ...
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.
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]
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 ...
More images: Wimbledon War Memorial Parkside: 1921: Charles Leonard Hartwell: Thomas Graham Jackson: War memorial Grade II: Unveiled 5 November 1921. [9] More images: King's Royal Rifle Corps War Memorial Wimbledon Common
Eastfields is an area of South London situated between Mitcham and Streatham. The area is home to St Mark's Academy (formerly known as Eastfields and then Mitcham Vale) secondary school and to Mitcham Eastfields railway station, which opened on 2 June 2008. The area has two council estates, Laburnum and Eastfields Estate, 5 minutes away from ...