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Mitcham is an area within the London Borough of Merton in Southwest 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 .
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 ...
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 ]
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.
Merton Park is quite widely used as a name for the neighbourhood. Merton itself is a rarely used name, among residents and businesses in the borough at any rate, to describe any particular district of the borough, with popular preference turning to the new 19th-century "Park" and "Wood" estates designated by the railway stations as they all unusually here formed new parishes.
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Mitcham is a town in the London Borough of Merton, London, England. Mitcham may also refer to: Places. Mitcham (UK Parliament constituency) ...
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 ...