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Merton Park is a suburb in the London Borough of Merton. It is situated in Wimbledon. Bordering areas are Colliers Wood, Morden, South Wimbledon and Raynes Park. It is 7.25 miles (11.7 km) southwest of Charing Cross.It lies 2.8 miles east of Kingston upon Thames, 3 miles west of Mitcham and 4.5 miles north of Sutton.
Merton Park is a suburb in the London Borough of Merton. It is situated in Wimbledon. Bordering areas are Colliers Wood, Morden, South Wimbledon and Raynes Park. Map. Directions. Satellite. Photo Map.
Merton, outer borough of London, England, located south of Wandsworth. Merton is part of the historic county of Surrey. The present borough was established in 1965 by amalgamation of the boroughs of Mitcham and Wimbledon and the urban district of Merton and Morden.
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The borough is the host of the Wimbledon tournament, one of tennis 's Grand Slam competitions. The borough derives its name from the historic parish of Merton which was centred on the area now known as South Wimbledon. The local authority is Merton London Borough Council, which is based in Morden.
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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 unusual...
Early history
The village of Merton had a linear focus, stretching westwards from the Roman road Stane Street which connected London to Chichester. Locally, the road ran in a direct line from the current Colliers Wood High Street to London Road, Morden, crossing the site of Sainsbury's Savacentre and industrial estates. The name dates back at least to the 7th century, when documents record its use. Translations vary from "Farmstead by the mere (small lake)" to "Maera's homestead". Merton appears in Domesda...
Merton Priory or Abbey
The priory or abbey, also known by a third name Priory of St Mary of Merton, was founded by Gilbert Norman in 1114 on a site close to today's Sainsbury's store. In 1117 it became an Augustinian establishment and developed a high reputation for scholarship.[citation needed] It is believed to have been the birthplace of Walter de Merton, founder of Merton College, Oxford. In 1235, Henry III held negotiations here with his barons for the Statute of Merton. The Abbey provided the education of Sai...
17th and 18th centuries
The River Wandle flowing north towards Wandsworth had for centuries driven watermills and provided water for a number of industrial processes. In the 1660s a silk mill was in operation at Merton Abbey and the Jacob family was operating a fabric bleaching ground close by – a process requiring large quantities of water. The name remained associated with the locality as two hundred years later, Stanford's 1862 Library Map of London and its Suburbsshows Jacob's Green at the junction of what are n...
Until the 20th century, most of the parish remained rural in character and the main residential and commercial centres were at Merton Park and along Merton High Street between modern South Wimbledon and Colliers Wood. Other modern areas included within the parish area are: 1. Wimbledon Chase 2. Southern Raynes Park 3. Motspur Park/West Barnes
A small memorial exists on the site of Merton Place. Other commemorations of Nelson's association with the parish are the former Nelson Hospital on Kingston Road, reopened in 2015 as the Nelson Health Centre; and, until it was closed in 2011, the Emma Hamiltonpublic house at Wimbledon Chase. The Nelson Trading Estate off Morden Road and Hamilton, H...
In 1881, all but one of the main concentrations of the surname Merton in Great Britain were in cardinal compass points other than the south-east, with the sole exception being in the DA postcode area; this demonstrates that the surname derives from places other than the Merton now in Greater London.The borough of Merton is among the 24 London borou...
Merton is an ancient parish historically in Surrey, but which has since 1965 been part of Greater London. It is bounded by Wimbledon to the north, Mitcham to the east, Morden , Cheam and Cuddington to the south and Malden to the west.
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Oct 30, 2020 · In 1965, in a region in South West London, the borough of Mitcham, Wimbledon and Morden formed what we now call Merton.
