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Heritage Walks – Lower Mitcham Burn Bullock in memory of the popular local cricketer who housed 890 children from Church Road and slums of Phipps 18 probably inspired by an unusual horizontal windmill which 44 Bridge area; dubbed the Star School after a nearby pub and MILESTONE at Sibford [GII listed] – London Road MITCHAM GARDEN VILLAGE [local listed] – off (cont) held the license from 1941 to 1954; some windows bricked was working nearby in the late 18thC. River Wandle and Ravensbury name persists even though pub demolished some time ago. – c1755; moved slightly from original position at kerbside; Cranmer Road – part of Rowcrofts, a meadow occupying in to avoid paying ‘window tax’ introduced in 1797 by described in 18thC as 9th from the Standard Cornhill; one 34 TS TRAFALGAR SEA CADETS – Commonside a corner of the grounds of the Cranmers, was used as the of the last Lord of the Manor, Gilliat Hatfeild, in 1941 when William Pitt, to help pay for the war against France; replaced 7 it was bequeathed to the National Trust; the Hatfeilds WANDLE VILLA [GII listed] – Phipps Bridge Road – of the remaining stones along the old turnpike road from West – previously a pre-fabricated building; current building site of Mitcham Garden Village; erected between 1928 in 1851 by Schedule D income tax on the grounds that poor and 1932; construction by Higginson a local builder, to the introduced deer to the park, where they remained until the built c1788 for John Rucker, merchant and calico printer; Kennington to Reigate and beyond, the other being on opened in 2008. lighting and ventilation encouraged poor health. factory constructed behind house; calico printing continued Figges Marsh. (cross road to Cricket Green) design of Chart, Son & Reading; funding provided by Sir mid-20thC; much of the River Wandle running through the 35 until 1870 when site bought by Gilliat Hatfeild who lived CRANMER GREEN – Cranmer Road/Madeira Road/ Isaac Wilson; houses designed to accommodate the elderly park has been diverted for ornamental uses or canalized for 19 Site of THE MANOR HOUSE & BERKELEY 19 THE WHITE HOUSE [GII listed] – Cricket Green – King George VI Ave – 12 acres of former parish ‘waste’, and the estate looks much the same today as when it was industrial purposes; the original stream forms the boundary in house couple of years before moving into Morden Hall; HOUSE/COTTAGE – London Road – mainly of 18thC; factory demolished and in 1941 house was willed to the built late 18thC with exterior of 1826; stucco; 3 storeys; Cranmer Green passed under the control of Mitcham Urban built, with some internal modifications. between the ancient parishes of Mitcham, Merton and built on land which formed part of a larger estate in the central bowed solid sided pilastered porch with square National Trust by Hatfeild’s son. District Council in 1923, and is now maintained by LBM as 45 Morden; the house was constructed early 18thC with a 16th/17thC where Sir Julius Ceasar lived (Chancellor of the headed entrance and Greek Doric half columns; occupied part of green corridor; the pond is seasonal. (across road to THE WILSON HOSPITAL [local listed] former site succession of occupants until 1872 when acquired by the Exchequer 1606); housed various notable Mitcham people 8 Site of CEMETERY CHAPEL – Church Road/Miles by local doctor; it became the residence of Lady Worsfold Common) of THE RECTORY & THE CRANMERS – Cranmer Road – Hatfeilds; grounds still contain a number of historic features, including the Wilford family; a listed building, it was gutted Road – this no longer exists and has been replaced by a on the death of her husband Sir Cato Worsfold MP in 1936; home of Sir Robert Howard, knighted by Charles 1 in 1644; 36 including several weatherboarded cottages, an ice house by fire in 1961, shortly after acquisition by a local builder 1950’s maintenance store and mess room. still remembered for her dedication to local affairs and in SEVEN ISLANDS POND – the only surviving pond purchased by Robert Cranmer during the Commonwealth, and stable block. who had assured worried conservationists that it would be particular her wartime work with the WVS and Girl Guide formed from gravel extraction; in first half of 20thC was an Elizabethan house with substantial front additions dating 9 [GII* listed] containing restored; after some yerars lying derelict it was demolished MITCHAM PARISH CHURCH movement. deep enough for boating, used for swimming and fish c1650 and a Tudor barn; King George VI Ave leads to its 13 SURREY ARMS PH & ‘THE WHITE COTTAGE’ TOMBS of RICHARD CRANMER, ANN HALL and THOMAS and Justin Plaza, an office block, was built. Nearby was were abundant; reduced to a contaminated puddle in the original entrance gates; known as the Cranmers; Robert [GII listed] – small row of early 19thC weatherboarded STANLEY [GII listed] – Church Road – a church has been 20 [local listed] – Cricket Green – Berkeley House/Cottage; residents here included Thomas MITCHAM COURT 1980’s; Conservators took action and pond was dredged Cranmer only had a short time to enjoy the position of squire cottages on site of current pub, one of which was operating on this site for close to 800 years with many alterations over erected c1824 as residence for local doctor; extended late Pratt (set up Zion Chapel) Samuel Killick (father built Mitcham and vegetation controlled; now forms important natural area of Mitcham as he and his wife died during the plaque in as an inn in late 19thC under provision of the Beerhouse Act time; discussions in 1819 to build a larger church on corner 1860’s; last private resident was Sir Harry Mallaby-Deeley Workhouse) and members of the Potter & Moore families. bounded by rare pockets of acid grassland. 1665 leaving the estate in trust for his 7 young sons; Rev of 1830; present building dates from 1930’s; White Cottage of Lower Green/London Rd, but rejected as being too small; MP who sold the house in 1936 to the Mitcham Corporation 37 John Evanson lived there from 1752 to 1767, followed by 3 built late 18thC and in late 19thC was home of Robert Ellis 20 Site of MITCHAM HALL – London Road – erected 13thC church therefore demolished to make room for larger on the understanding the land would be used for new public Site of MITCHAM WORKHOUSE & TOWER curates until 1783, so during this period it was known as The who had a small mineral water factory (the Ravenspring late 17thC between what is now Baron Grove and Mitcham one currently on site; many notable Mitcham people buried buildings; war intervened so site never redeveloped; house CREAMERIES – Windmill Road – built in 1782 to replace Rectory; the last residents James and Ernest Peat lived there Works) behind the house. Park, with extensive grounds, orchards and water features; here, including members of the Mizen family. used by the Borough Housing & Public Health departments, workhouse that had been overlooking Figges Marsh for from 1899 to 1924, calling it The Cranmers; demolished in notable families occupying the mansion were the Wyches, continuing when Mitcham was incorporated into LBM, until about 40 years, because vestry officers wanted it out of the 1927 to make way for the Wilson Hospital, made possible 14 CHURCH OF LATTER DAY SAINTS, former 10 [GII listed] – dating from the Hampsons who were the guardians of the 7 Cranmer 60/64 CHURCH ROAD 1983; sold to McAlpine in 1985 and used as offices until public gaze; land owned by the Manship family; used as by the generosity of Sir Isaac Wilson a building developer; BARON GROVE HOUSES [GII listed] – 482/484 & 470/472 about 1740, these houses are included in the 1969 Cricket sons, left after their parents died during the plague in 1665, 1996; currently in use as private school. workhouse until 1838; building extended 1853 for Hooper’s opened in 1928 by Princess Mary the Princess Royal; London Road – built c1830 by architect Thomas Finden on Green Conservation Area. Henry Hoare, George Parker Bidder, and finally Sydney funded largely by donations; enlarged 1934; absorbed into the estate of Elizabethan mansion known as Baron House 21 COLD BLOWS – Cricket Green to Commonside West Gedge who purchased the property in 1864; Gedge was 11 – Love Lane – built c1793; the NHS in 1947/8. in the 18thC; the third pair of houses was demolished early GLEBELANDS HOUSE – a lane of great antiquity; carries on to the Sandy Lane area a solicitor to the School Board of London and had a great Rev Richard Roberts established a highly regarded academy 46 20thC; many of occupants were from families prominent where the herb growing fields were; named since at least the CRANMER PRIMARY SCHOOL – Cranmer interest in the welfare of children; established the Sydney for young gentlemen here, educating several now famous in Mitcham life. In 1973 approval was sought to demolish 16thC because of the cold winds blowing down it. Road – erected on site of Cranmer Farm; opened in 1929 482/484 (at the time headquarters of the Mitcham Nursing Home for children at the Elms in Upper Mitcham; people; severely damaged by bombs in WW2; substantially as Mitcham County School for Girls; became a middle 22 Constituency Labour Party) to provide site for the Church Gedge died at Mitcham Hall in 1923 aged 94; the house rebuilt in 1950’s; now private residential accommodation for ELM LODGE [GII listed] – Cricket Green – erected school and is now a primary school; the Cranmers and of Latter Day Saints; this was refused, so the church built a was demolished and by 1937 all signs of Mitcham Hall had elderly people. c1807 by Edward Worsfold a local maltster; was almost their descendants the Simpsons, were major landowners disappeared under the houses and gardens of Mitcham always occupied by local doctors. large hall at the rear and adapted the building. 12 Site of THE BULL PH – Church Road – mentioned in in the parish for some 250 years, holding the lordship of Park. the manor of Mitcham Canons, with three large houses in 15 a guide book c1789 as the Black Bull “a genteel and good 23 BIRCHES HOUSE [local listed] – Birches Close off Site of BARON HOUSE – London Road – built 21 the area, occupied by various notable people – East India c16thC, no records of original Tudor mansion, but known MITCHAM PARK – London Road to Cricket Green accustomed public house”; behind in Bull Yard were grossly Cricket Green – locally listed Queen Anne-style building – built c1898 on land formally owned by the Wylford family overcrowded labourers dwellings; now replaced by modern constructed for Sir Isaac Wilson, a local benefactor, on site merchants, a Cavalier, Huguenot émigrés, officers serving in that Queen Elizabeth 1 visited Lady Blanke there twice in the American War of Independence and Napoleonic Wars, a 1591 and 1594; in 1768 tenancy held by Oliver Baron until since the 16thC and site of a wealthy mansion (allegedly with housing in Church Place. of the Birches estate owned by Sir Isaac; land and house a moat) which attracted visits from Queen Elizabeth 1 on two were bequeathed on Sir Isaac’s death “for the well-being of leading churchman and botanist to name a few; each had a his death in 1786 and now referred to as Baron House; for 13 – Lower Green West – dates place in the story of Mitcham, but sadly few are remembered occasions in 1592 and 1595; Mitcham Hall was built late Site of VINE HOUSE Mitcham residents” and used for health purposes; with the the last 30 years of its life it was sub-divided – a boarding from mid-17thC; late 19thC was private school and then now. 17thC after what remained of the extensive grounds of the inception of the NHS in 1948, the site was absorbed and school for young ladies, and then an academy for young home of Billy Hills, the last beadle of Mitcham; demolished 47 gentlemen (visited by Admiral Lord Nelson in 1801); the Wylford mansion was broken up and sold (see 20); estate now remains under the control of the local PCT. SS PETER & PAUL RC CHURCH [local listed] – completed in 1937. 1932 and replaced with police housing aptly named Vine Cranmer Road – from c1291 RC services were held in the academy transferred to Eagle House in 1825; another 24 House and Beadle Court. CHESTNUT COTTAGE [GII listed] – Cricket Green – church in Church Road; after 1535 there was no RC facility tenant was William Fenning; much altered and extended, 22 34 TS Trafalgar Sea Cadets THE CROWN INN PH – London Road – an inn has believed to date from 1740’s; originally dwelling for ostlers in Mitcham; by 1853 masses were being held, probably in Baron House was bought by Thomas Finden c1826 and 14 WANDLE INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE MUSEUM been on the site since mid-17thC; replaced and enlarged in to Canon’s estate; front elevation is timber framed lath and Elm Lodge occupied by the Simpsons; when they moved demolished shortly afterwards; Finden built a new Baron – Vestry Hall Annex, London Road – in the early 1940’s 18thC to respond to the increased trade generated by the plaster; rendered in 20thC; tiled double pitched roof to to Manor House they continued to hold masses in an House for himself; he also erected three pairs of semi- an outbuilding was erected to provide accommodation for factory producing waterproof clothing for troops in Crimean turnpike leading to Sutton, also Morden, Ewell and Epsom parapet; central projecting porch with fluted Ionic columns; outhouse; in 1862 they built a chapel on part of their land detached houses (see 14); Finden died in 1861; house saw expanding Borough Council staff; intended to be temporary war; workhouse site taken over by Wood family of Woodlite; Spa; current building erected in inter-war years in mock sashes, glazing bars, 6-panelled door and tall chimneys to which is now the playground of SS Peter & Paul Primary succession of tenants until the outbreak of war in 1914; but still there and now used as premises for Museum. mock-gothic Woodlite Towers built in 1890’s; from 1903 Tudor style; the building is now a bar/restaurant. gable ends. School; in 1889 the current church was built on Cranmer appears to have been demolished during 1940’s; much of 15 [local listed] – Lower was Tower Creameries Margarine factory; bombed in 1941; 23 MITCHAM OLD STATION/STATION COURT MITCHAM FIRE STATION 25 METHODIST CHURCH [local listed] – Cricket Road on land donated by the Simpsons. the land had been exploited for sand and gravel; in 1954 Green West – until the present fire station was opened in 1944 rebuilt as part of Windmill Trading Estate; whole site [GII listed] – London Road – present tram track follows the Green – original 1877 building replaced in 1958, architect 48 THE OBELISK [GII listed] – Cricket Green/Madeira Mitcham Council erected the block of maisonettes – Baron, 1927, Mitcham’s no 1 engine was housed in Vestry Hall, demolished 2009 for current housing estate. Fenning and Gedge Courts. route of Surrey Iron Railway; closed in 1846 and replaced in Edward Mills; majority of original fittings survive including Road – erected in 1822 by Rev Richard Cranmer, to mark 38 MILL HILL viewing point – the highest point in Mitcham
1855 by Wimbledon to Croydon steam passenger railway; while the second engine was stationed in Colliers Wood; the wood bench pews, choir stalls, organ pit with organ, altar (thanks to landfill). In early 19thC the Common was well- the discovery of an artesian spring in the grounds of The electrified in 1930; closed in 1997 to permit opening of Mitcham Brigade was integrated with the London Fire Service rail, east end wooden cross, lectern and pulpit; Edward Mills wooded, surrounded by gracious houses and private Canons, which was considered miraculous as Mitcham Croydon Tramlink in 2000. Station Court was built c1801 after WW2; in 1972 there was talk of relocating the station was foremost architect of Methodist churches in the post- parkland, crossed by gravel roads, game still abounded had been suffering from exceptionally low rainfall for as a private house; became Mitcham Station ticket office to Goat Road but nothing happened; current station is no war period being a Methodist himself; Mitcham Methodist and rough pasturage was provided for those with grazing several years. in 1855 and was reputedly the oldest station building in the longer big enough for modern equipment and the Brigade is Church was showcased in “The new Churches of Europe” rights; by the end of the 19thC the combined efforts of gravel 49 46 CRICKET GREEN former WESLEY CHAPEL world, pre-dating the railway by 54 years; sold to British Rail looking to develop a larger site near Tramlink station. of 1964 by GE Kidder Smith, alongside St Paul’s Bow digging, turf removal and golf course construction had all left [local listed] – built 1789; used until 1877 when Methodist c1980; currently offices. Common (Grade II*) and Coventry Cathedral (Grade I) their mark; the Board of Conservators was formed in 1891 to Church built on other side of Cricket Green; now a 24 manage the Common; ploughing for food production during wwprivate house. JEPPOS LANE – off Tramway Path – the south- 26 THE DOVECOTE at THE CANONS [GII listed] – wartime and tipping of domestic waste by the local authority 50 eastern boundary of Mitcham Hall was formed by Jeppos Madeira Road – built with knapped flint and dressed chalk until early 1960’s alarmed local people and the Conservators; 40 CRICKET GREEN former BRITTANIA PH Lane, the ancient bridleway which still survives as the rear with thin ‘Tudor’ bricks at the quoins; dated MDXI and more recently with increased public awareness and the hard [local listed] – built in 1785 on what was then called The access way to houses in Mitcham Park. Jeppos Lane pre-dates the Dissolution; overlooks a former carp pond; work of Conservators, Friends groups and the Common Causeway; used as pub from 1832; beer was reputedly pre-dates Mitcham Park by centuries; it formed part of the formerly in possession of the prior and convent of St Mary Preservation Society, the area has been renovated and brewed on site for sale at the pub; emblem remains above Domesday ‘vill’ of Whitford, which lay between the Lower the door; headquarters of the Old Buffers Cricket Club; Overie of Southwark; this is the oldest standing structure in preserved for our enjoyment. Green and River Wandle. nearby was the old Police Station, rebuilt in 1962. Mitcham. 39 WINDMILL AND STUDY CENTRE AT MILL 51 SS PETER & PAUL PRIMARY SCHOOL and site 27 PEACE GARDEN at THE CANONS – Madeira Road HOUSE [GII listed] – Windmill Road – permission granted of RC CHAPEL – Cricket Green – the school moved into Lower Green, Cricket Green & Common – original walled garden constructed in 1761 under direction 1806 to erect windmill; damaged in 1862 by violent the brick chapel when the new RC church was erected in Start White Hart PH of James Cranmer who owned and lived in The Canons; a thunderstorm; never rebuilt and superstructure dismantled 1889; substantial extensions over the years with none of millstone from the front step of a beerhouse (Hole in the Wall) in 1905 leaving just the base; Mill House saw succession of original building remaining. 1 346/348 LONDON ROAD (OLD COACHING HOUSE) salvaged from demolition in Nursery Road in 1966, was set occupants until 1950 when sold to Mitcham Corporation; 52 Site of TATE’S HOUSE – Cricket Green – a [GII listed] – London Road – thought to be much older than in paving at the entrance to walled garden; dedicated as a various schemes not realised and property sold in 1992 with large 18thC mansion on part of the site of the current 28 Canons House 18thC façade which covers a timber frame; in 1738 rented by Peace Garden in 2009. proviso that pre-1900 structure of house and mill base be almshouses. George Holden who set up a stage coach business; in 1855 preserved and an environmental study centre provided; plans 28 CANONS HOUSE [GII* listed] – Madeira Road – John Philip Sampson ran a horse-bus business from there; use under way to protect mill base from the elements. 53 MARY TATE’S ALMSHOUSES [GII listed] – Cricket Cranmer granted a building lease to John Odway in 1680, 16 ceased with coming of railways in 1869; property became Green – built in 1828 on land formerly occupied by the LONDON ROAD PLAYING FIELDS – behind for a new house to be erected on part of land belonging 40 BIDDER MEMORIAL [GII listed] – Croydon Road Baron, Fenning & Gedge Courts – land belonging to the tailors and general drapers; in 1910 became barber’s shop Tate’s family home; finance provided by Mary Tate who and tobacconists/confectioners; 1970 converted to offices; in to the Rectory; house remained in possession of Cranmer – George Parker Bidder MA QC is best remembered for stipulated that the 12 tenants should be elderly women of Baron House estate where sand and gravel was excavated, family and their descendants, the Simpsons, for over 250 securing the preservation of Mitcham Common as public leaving the land full of pits; reinstatement of the land was 1999 became two houses and three flats. good character; ownership passed from trustees to Family years; building now part of the Canons Leisure Complex, open space; first chairman of Board of Conservators; first Housing Association; now modernised internally and attempted using all manner of refuse as backfill, including old 2 MITCHAM PARISH ROOMS/former NATIONAL and used by LBM for community purposes. chairman of Mitcham Parish Council in 1895; a generous buses and trams; 1930 land purchased by Surrey County reduced to 9 units. SCHOOL [GII listed] – Lower Green West – erected 1788 benefactor to the church; died in 1896 and the monument Council for use as playing fields, but the poor state of the 29 MITCHAM BOWLS CLUB – The Canons, Madeira 54 MITCHAM CRICKET CLUB PAVILLION & as Sunday School; enlarged in 1812 to establish a day 26 The Dovecote was funded by public subscription. ground was a constant problem. 1985 the LBM declared Road CRICKET GROUND [local listed] – Cricket Green – school; repeatedly extended to try and accommodate the site surplus to requirements for educational purposes and 41 THE RAVENSBURY PH formerly THE BLUE HOUSE cricket pitch has been in use since 1685 and claims to be ever increasing number of children; regularly condemned 30 CANONS LEISURE CENTRE – opened c1974 and proposed housing; this was strongly opposed and with a 16 PH – Croydon Road – Blue House PH built c1800; weather the oldest continuously used cricket ground in the world; as unsanitary late 19thC; closed in 1898; used for variety of Former CRICKETERS INN – London Road – included new swimming pool which replaced the Baths Hall change in administration in 1990 the land was designated a boarded building exactly a mile from the Red House PH reportedly watched by Admiral Lord Nelson during his time parochial purposes until sold by church in 1987; restored original inn built mid-18thC; probably weather boarded and in London Road. park; formally opened in 1992 by the Mayor of Merton. towards Croydon; so route regularly used by gypsies for in the area; the pavilion dates from 1904 when rural traffic and converted to flats and artists studios; now known as the pantiled, and recorded as the ‘White Swan’; demolished 31 MITCHAM SPORTS GROUND – former News of horse racing; replaced by current building in 1906. (left at on the road between the pavilion and pitch presented no 17 School House. c1800; rebuilt in red brick c1850 and renamed Cricketers THE WHITE HART PH [GII listed] – London Road the World sports ground; bought with Park Place in 1922; roundabout down Carshalton Road) hazard to players – unlike now. – coaching inn recorded here in a sale document of 1609; during this time; rebuilt in brick and slate 1855; 1875 3 Site of HALL PLACE – Church Road – Gothic style originally intended just for employees; became the training 55 amongst property purchased by Robert Cranmer; rebuilt landlord was famous slow bowler James Southerton who 42 MITCHAM JUNCTION RAIL & TRAM STATION RUFF MEMORIAL STONE [local listed] – Cricket building erected in 1867 by William Worsfold in place of old ground for many of Britain’s 1936 Olympic team. in 1750; post chaises to any part of country hired from played for Surrey; destroyed by parachute mine in 1940; [local listed] – Carshalton Road – opened in 1868 – a pitch – erected to commemorate Tom Ruff who ran a medieval house previously on site; demolished 1940’s. Holden’s Stables next door; coaching trade declined with the housed a temporary bar in outbuilding for 15 years and 32 PARK PLACE [GII listed] – now Toby Carvery – main mile from the village centre and in the middle of Mitcham cobblers shop on Upper Green East until his death, whilst coming of railways mid-19thC; used for vestry and political 4 HALL PLACE ARCH [GII listed] – Church Road – all finally rebuilt 1957; official opening by famous Surrey twins part of property dates from c1780; prior to 1391 site is Common; not conveniently situated so had little impact on Mayor of Mitcham, in 1962; Tom was a strong supporter of Mitcham Cricket Club and captained the Wednesday side meetings; hall built at rear in inter-war years to serve sharp that remains of the private chapel for which Henry de Strete Eric and Alec Bedser; closed down in 2010 and due for referred to as ‘Almannesland’ suggesting it was originally development in the area; now an important Tramlink and redevelopment as retail and housing. for many years. increase in population; fell into disuse in 1960’s; developed a obtained a licence in 1349; partially rebuilt and preserved by common land; Elizabethan farm house on site demolished overground rail junction. bad reputation over next 30 years; after several changes of the Worsfold family in Hall Place garden. 17 56 HORSE TROUGH [GII listed] – Cricket Green/ VESTRY HALL [local listed] – London Road – site was mid-18thC and new house built; notable occupants include 43 MITCHAM GOLF CLUB – beyond Station, Carshalton landlord was completely refurbished and re-launched as the London Road – drinking fountain and horse (or cattle) 5 that of the village lock-up built in 1765 and the village stocks; William Herbert, Lt Gen Forbes Champagne and William Road – in 1891 the Mitcham Common Conservators leased ‘Hooden on the Green’ in 2000; name changed back to the VICARAGE HOUSE [GII listed] – Church Road – built trough dates from late 19thC; installed to celebrate Queen 1826 by Samuel Killick for Rev Richard Cranmer; extension erected in 1887 to the design of Robert Masters Chart at a Simpson III lord of the manor of Mitcham; Park Place used a large part of the Common to Princes Golf Club; course White Hart in 2010. cost of £4,000; became the Urban District Council offices of after WWI by YMCA until bought by News of the World for Victoria’s Golden Jubilee by Metropolitan Drinking Fountain built c1846 when Rev Henry Wharton ran boarding school designed by Tom Morris of St Andrews; large clubhouse Association, founded in 1867 because of poor supply of 18 Mitcham in 1915 and when Borough status was granted in use as clubhouse; sold to Surrey County Council in 1963; BURN BULLOCK PH, former KINGS HEAD [GII for boys at vicarage; building converted to flats in 2001 and erected close to Station; originally engendered ill-feeling clean drinking water for people; also includes a dog trough 1934, became the Town Hall; Mitcham became part of the converted as council offices by LBM; major fire in 1988 – listed] – London Road – the rear dates from late 16thC early new vicarage at 11 Vicarage Gardens. locally, but this ceased when course was made public in below; nearby flowerbeds planted with golden roses to London Borough of Merton in 1965, and the Town Hall (after renovated and re-opened in 1996 as a pub/restaurant. 17thC; Georgian front added c1760 to provide for increased 6 1924; clubhouse burnt down in 1933 and replaced by current commemorate Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II in customers on this important coaching route; renamed the BENEDICT PRIMARY SCHOOL [local listed] – a spell in Wimbledon) is now situated at the Civic Centre in smaller building. Benedict Wharf off Church Road – formally Lower Mitcham Morden; building currently used by Council and Voluntary 33 The Windmill PH – Commonside West – built c1870; 2003. (finish at Burn Bullock or White Hart) Board School; erected 1897 by Mitcham School Board; Sector for a variety of community uses. record of an earlier beerhouse on the site in 1846; name