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Ravensbury Park is a public park in Mitcham in the London Borough of Merton. An area of 7 hectares is designated a Local Nature Reserve. [1] [2] The River Wandle runs along the southern boundary of the park, which is also part of the Upper Wandle River Site of Metropolitan Importance for Nature Conservation. [3] [4]
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.
Merton's parks and open spaces range in size from Mitcham Common and a major part of Wimbledon Common to the smaller gardens, sports grounds and recreation grounds within its boundaries. The major areas of public open space in the Borough are: Cannizaro Park, Wimbledon: 13.95 hectares (34.5 acres) [1]
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 A217, London Road, passing Figges Marsh Figges Marsh, looking north Figges Marsh, looking south. Figges Marsh is a 25-acre [1] public park in the London Borough of Merton.It is in Mitcham, close to Tooting railway station.
Sunshine Way is the name of a crescent-shaped street in Mitcham, England, built in 1936 for families from overcrowded areas of inner London, and including specially-designed houses to suit the needs of tuberculosis (TB) patients.
A large extension to the west was completed in 1930 [4] and, after the area achieved municipal borough status, the building became known as "Mitcham Town Hall" in 1934. [8] A room on the first floor of the extension was designated for use as a courtroom in the 1930s [4] and the main hall was used as a British Restaurant during the Second World ...
Tinted postcard of the eponymous bridge in the 1900s. Phipps Bridge was built in the 1950s and 1960s on the previous site of a municipal refuse depot on Homewood Road and nearby streets of poor quality housing built in the late 19th century, [1] and was a reactivation of the pre-war slum clearance programme of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham (later called the London Borough of Merton). [2]