Mitcham

Human settlement in England

Mitcham

File:Mitcham clock tower (geograph 1853146).jpg
Mitcham Clocktower. Built in 1898 and renovated in 2016

Mitcham is located in Greater London

Mitcham

Mitcham

Location within Greater London

Population| 63,393 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid reference| TQ285685
London borough|

* Merton

Ceremonial county| Greater London
Region|

* London

Country| England
Sovereign state| United Kingdom
Post town| MITCHAM
Postcode district| CR4
Dialling code| 020
Police| Metropolitan
Fire| London
Ambulance| London
UK Parliament|

* Mitcham and Morden

London Assembly|

* Merton and Wandsworth

List of places

England
London

51°24′03″N 0°09′06″W﻿ / ﻿51.4009°N 0.1517°W﻿ / 51.4009; -0.1517Coordinates: 51°24′03″N 0°09′06″W﻿ / ﻿51.4009°N 0.1517°W﻿ / 51.4009; -0.1517

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. It has been a settlement throughout recorded history.

Amenities include Mitcham Library and Mitcham Cricket Green. Nearby major districts are Croydon, Sutton, Streatham, Brixton and Merton. Mitcham, most broadly defined, had a population of 63,393 in 2011, formed from six wards including Pollards Hill.[2]

## Contents

* 1 Location
* 2 History
* 3 Open Space
* 4 Notable buildings
* 5 Notable people
* 6 Demography
* 7 Transport and locale
* 7.1 Bus
* 7.2 Coach
* 8 Footnotes
* 9 References
* 10 External links

## Location[edit | edit source]

Mitcham is in the east of the London Borough of Merton. Mitcham is close to Thornton Heath, Streatham, Croydon, Sutton, and Tooting. The River Wandle bounds the town to the southwest.[3] The original village lies in the west. Mitcham Common takes up the greater part of the boundary and the area to the south part of the CR4 postcode is in the area of Pollards Hill. Some of the area which includes Mitcham Common and parts of Mitcham Junction are in the CR0 postcode area.

## History[edit | edit source]

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Mitcham Parish Church, Church Road, dates in part to the Saxon era.

File:Eagle House, London Road, Mitcham. - geograph.org.uk - 22085.jpg

Eagle House, London Road, Mitcham, built in 1705

The toponym "Mitcham" is Old English in origin and means big settlement. Before the Romans and Saxons were present, it was a Celtic settlement, with evidence of a hill fort in the Pollards Hill area. The discovery of Roman-era graves and a well on the site of the Mitcham gasplant evince Roman settlement. The Anglo-Saxon graveyard on the north bank of the Wandle is the largest discovered to date, and many of the finds therein are on display in the British Museum. Scholars such as Myres have suggested that Mitcham and other Thames plain settlements were some of the first populated by the Anglo-Saxons.

What became the parish lands could have hosted the Battle of Merton, 871, in which King Ethelred of Wessex was either mortally wounded or killed outright. The Church of England parish church of St Peter and St Paul dates from the early Kingdom of England. Mostly rebuilt in 1819–1821, the current building retains the original Saxon tower. The Domesday Book of 1086 lists Mitcham as a small farming community, an implied estimate of 250 people, living in two hamlets: Mitcham, the area today being Upper Mitcham; and Whitford (Lower Green).

The Domesday Book records Mitcham as Michelham. It was held partly by the Canons of Bayeux, partly by William, son of Ansculf and partly by Osbert.[4] Its domesday assets were: 8 hides and 1 virgate. It had ½ mill worth £1, 3½ ploughs, 56 acres (23 ha) of meadow. It rendered £4 5s 4d, at a time when a pound sterling still implied something similar to a pound of silver. The area lay in the Anglo-Saxon county subdivision of Wallington hundred.[5]

During her reign Queen Elizabeth I made at least five visits to the area. John Donne and Sir Walter Raleigh also had residences here in this era. It was at this time that Mitcham became gentrified, as due to the abundance of lavender fields Mitcham became renowned for its soothing air. The air also led people to settle in the area during times of plague.

When industrialisation occurred, Mitcham quickly grew to become a town and most of the farms were swallowed up in the expansion. Remnants of this farming history today include: Mitcham Common itself; Arthur's Pond on the corner of Watney's Road and Commonside East, and named for a local farmer; Alfred Mizen School (Garden Primary School), named after a local nurseryman charitable towards the burgeoning town; and the road New Barnes Avenue, replacing part of New Barn(e)s Farm.

File:Potter&Moore.jpg

Potter & Moore aftershave, made with Mitcham lavender

Many lavender fields were in Mitcham, and peppermint and lavender oils were also distilled. In 1749 two local physic gardeners, John Potter and William Moore, founded a company to make and market toiletries made from locally grown herbs and flowers.[6] Lavender features on Merton Council's coat of arms and the badge of the local football team, Tooting & Mitcham United F.C., as well as in the name of a local council ward, Lavender Field.

Mitcham was industrialised first along the banks of the Wandle, where snuff, copper, flour, iron and dye were all worked. Mitcham, along with nearby Merton Abbey, became the calico cloth printing centres of England by 1750. Asprey, suppliers of luxury goods made from various materials, was founded in Mitcham as a silk-printing business in 1781. William Morris opened a factory on the River Wandle at Merton Abbey. Merton Abbey Mills were the Liberty silk-printing works. It is now a craft village and its waterwheel has been preserved.

Activity along the Wandle led to the building of the Surrey Iron Railway, the world's first public railway, in 1803. The decline and failure of the railway in the 1840s also heralded a change in industry, as horticulture gradually gave way to manufacturing, with paint, varnish, linoleum and firework manufacturers moving into the area. The work provided and migratory patterns eventually resulted in a doubling of the population between the years 1900 and 1910.

In 1829 Miss Mary Tate donated land and money to build almshouses on the site of the former Tate family home in Cricket Green. The buildings were designed in a Tudor style by John Butcher and established to accommodate twelve poor widows or spinsters of the parish. Miss Tate was the only surviving member of the Tate family, who had lived from about 1700 in a large mansion on the site of the almshouses.[7][8] The gardens at the rear of the property were originally provided for the use of residents, but later informally rented out as allotments.[9]

Mitcham became a borough, within a two-tier council system, on 19 September 1934 with the charter of incorporation being presented to the 84-year-old mayor, Mr. R.M. Chart, by the Lord Lieutenant of Surrey, Lord Ashcombe.[10]

Mitcham's population 19th Century | 20th Century

|

1801 | 3,466 | 1901 | 14,903
1811 | 4,175 | 1911 | 29,606
1821 | 4,453 | 1921 | 35,119
1831 | 4,387 | 1931 | 56,859
1841 | 4,532 | 1941¹ | war
1851 | 4,641 | 1951 | 67,269
1861 | 5,078 | 1961 | 63,690
1871 | 6,498 | 1971 | 60,608
1881 | 8,960 | 1981 | 57,158
1891 | 12,127 | 1991² | n/a

1. no census was held due to war
2. census data no longer relates to parish boundaries

source: UK census

Social housing schemes in the 1930s included New Close, aimed at housing people made homeless by a factory explosion in 1933 and Sunshine Way, for housing the poor from inner London.[citation needed] This industry made Mitcham a target for German bombing during World War II. During this time Mitcham also returned to its agricultural roots, with Mitcham Common being farmed to help with the war effort.[citation needed]

From 1929 the electronics company Mullard had a factory on New Road.[citation needed]

Postwar, the areas of Eastfields, Phipps Bridge and Pollards Hill were rebuilt to provide cheaper more affordable housing.[citation needed] The largest council housing project in Mitcham is Phipps Bridge Estate.[citation needed] Further expansion of the housing estates in Eastfields, Phipps Bridge and Pollards Hill occurred after 1965. In Mitcham Cricket Green, the area lays reasonable, although not definitive, claim to having the world's oldest cricket ground in continual use, and the world's oldest club in Mitcham Cricket Club.[11]

The ground is also notable for having a road separate the pavilion from the pitch.[11] Local folklore claims Mitcham has the oldest fair in England, believing it to have been granted a charter by Queen Elizabeth I, a claim never proven.

Literature

Nimrod, sporting writer of the early 19th century, advocated against the grazing on grass of racehorses. He finds a very fast donkey chaise, investigates the donkey's owner and finds it is a Mitcham blacksmith, who never turns out the donkey in summer onto Mitcham Common but keeps it fed with oats and beans as if a hunter racing horse.[12]

Mitcham appears in local variants of mildly vulgar rhymes of 18th and 19th centuries, all beginning with:

"Sutton for good mutton"[13]

One variant ends with "Mitcham for a thief", another "Ewell" which is opposite in direction. An author noted for another genre, James Edward Preston Muddock as Dick Donovan penned The Naughty Maid of Mitcham in 1910.

## Open Space[edit | edit source]

File:Pond on Mitcham Common. - geograph.org.uk - 22077.jpg

Pond on Mitcham Common

Main article: Mitcham Common

Mitcham is home to a large area (460 acres) of South London's open green space in the form of Mitcham Common, studded with a few ponds and buildings.

The buildings comprising the Windmill Trading Estate have existed in one form or another since 1782. The Mill House Ecology Centre and the Harvester (formerly the Mill House Pub) are located near the site of an old windmill, the remnants of which still exist.

The Seven Islands pond is the largest of all the ponds, created following gravel extraction of the 19th century.[14] The most recent, Bidder's pond, was created in 1990 and named after George Parker Bidder.

## Notable buildings[edit | edit source]

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Eagle House, Mitcham

* Formerly Mitcham Railway Station - geograph.org.uk - 1220242.jpg

Old Mitcham Station

* Mitcham Public Library, London Road. - geograph.org.uk - 22087.jpg

Mitcham Library, London Rd

* Elm Lodge, Cricket Green (geograph 4990472).jpg

Elm Lodge, Cricket Green

* Mitcham Methodist Church - 2014, I.jpg

Mitcham Methodist Church

* St Barnabas church, Gorringe Park Avenue - geograph.org.uk - 217133.jpg

St Barnabas Church

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The White House, Mitcham

* Burn Bullock Public House - geograph.org.uk - 1220234.jpg

The Burn Bullock

* The White Hart Mitcham (15310632588).jpg

The White Hart Public House

* Vestry Hall (geograph 3607927).jpg

Mitcham Vestry Hall

* The Canons. House originally built in 1680; it was the home of the family Cranmer until it was sold to the local council in 1939. The name originates from an Augustinian priory that was given this site in the 12th Century. The pond next to which it is located and the dovecote both predate the house.[15]
* Eagle House, built in 1705. Eagle House is a Queen Anne house built in the Dutch style on land formerly owned by Sir Walter Raleigh. It is on London Road, Mitcham, the grounds forming a triangle bounded by London Road, Bond Road and Western Road. The building was commissioned by the marrano doctor Fernando Mendes (1647–1724), former physician to King Charles II.
* Mitcham Common Windmill, a post mill dating from 1806.
* Old Mitcham Station, on the Surrey Iron Railway route. Now called Station Court, the building was a former merchant's home and is possibly the oldest station in the world.
* The Tate Almshouses, built in 1829 to provide for the poor by Mary Tate.
* The Watermead Fishing Cottages.
* Mitcham Vestry Hall, the annex of which now houses the Wandle Industrial Museum.
* Mitcham Public Library, built in 1933.
* Elm Lodge, 1808. This listed Regency house was occupied by Dr. Parrott, a village doctor, in the early 19th century, and for a short time by the artist, Sir William Nicholson. The curved canopy over the entrance door is a typical feature of this period.[citation needed]
* Mitcham Court. The centre portion, first known as Elm Court, was built in 1840, the wings later. Caesar Czarnikow, a sugar merchant, lived here ca. 1865–86 and presented the village with a new horse-drawn fire engine. Sir Harry Mallaby-Deeley, M.P., conveyed the house to the borough in the mid-1930s. The Ionic columned porch and the ironwork on the ground floor windows are notable features.
* Renshaw's factory, a marzipan factory, founded in 1898 in the City and thus one of the earliest in the country, which came to Mitcham in 1924.[citation needed] It was on Locks Lane until 1991, when the company moved its operations to Liverpool. The factory was featured in three 1950s British Pathe News shorts. The building has lent its name to the area where it stood, Renshaw Corner.
* Poulters Park, Home to Mitcham Rugby Union Football Club
* Imperial Fields, Tooting & Mitcham United F.C.'s home ground.
* Mitcham Methodist Church was designed by the architect Edward Mills (1915–1998), and built in 1958–9. Regarded as the best surviving work by the most successful Nonconformist architect of the period. A radical and inspiring building that was forwarded by the 20th Century Society for listing as it was under threat. Grade II listed on 5 March 2010.[16]
* St Barnabas church, Gorringe Park Avenue, Mitcham. Built in the gothic style, on 17 May 1913 the foundation stone of the church building was laid, and on 14 November 1914 the church was consecrated – by the bishop of Southwark. The architect was HP Burke-Downing. The building is still in use as an Anglican church. Both the church itself and the adjacent parish hall are Grade II listed.
* The White House, Mitcham on which the wall plaque says: "This 18th Century house was renovated in the Regency style in 1826 by Dr. A.C. Bartley, a village doctor, whose daughter wrote reminiscences of old Mitcham. The house remained in his family until 1919. Fluted Greek Doric columns support a slightly altered porch with a bowed front." It is Grade II listed.[17]
* The Burn Bullock Public House, London Road, Mitcham is a three-storey Grade II listed building originally called the King's Head Hotel. The front of the building dates from the 18th century whilst its wing dates from the 16th and 17th centuries.[18] It is named after a well known, former cricket player from the locality.[19][11]
* The White Hart public house is Mitcham's earliest recorded inn, rebuilt in 1749–50 after serious fire damage. The central porch, with frieze and balustrade, is supported by four Tuscan columns. Stagecoaches used to start from a yard at the rear. It is Grade II listed. It is located in London Road, opposite Cricket Green.[20]

## Notable people[edit | edit source]

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* Ramz (rapper) \- singer, rapper[21]
* John Donne – Jacobean poet and churchman[22]
* James Chuter Ede – politician, MP for Mitcham 1923, resident till 1937, later Home Secretary[23]
* Michael Fielding and Noel Fielding – The Mighty Boosh comedians and brothers[24]
* Mike Fillery – Association football[25]
* David Gibson – cricketer[26]
* Florence Harmer – historian[27]
* Neil Howlett – opera singer[28]
* M.I.A. – singer, songwriter and rapper[29]
* Slick Rick – East coast Rapper, born in Surrey, moved to USA aged 11[30]
* Alex Stepney – former Manchester United footballer and 1968 European Cup winner[31]
* Herbert Strudwick – cricket wicket-keeper[32]
* William Allison White – recipient of the Victoria Cross[33]
* Faryadi Sarwar Zardad – Afghan warlord; lived in Mitcham for a time, later convicted and imprisoned for war crimes[34]

## Demography[edit | edit source]

Mitcham and Morden (Westminster Parliamentary Constituency)

* Population – 103,298[35]

Ethnic Group[36]

* White

British – 40,608, Irish – 1,840, Gypsy or Irish Traveller – 161, Other White – 12,899

* Mixed/Multiple Ethnic Groups

White and Black Caribbean – 1,862, White and Black African – 856, White and Asian – 1,163, Other Mixed – 1,444

* Asian

Indian – 4,536, Pakistani – 5,054, Bangladeshi – 1,484, Chinese – 1,169, Other Asian – 10,194

* Black/African/Caribbean

African – 9,036, Caribbean – 7,029, Other Black – 1,912

* Other Ethnic Group

Arab – 670, Other ethnic group – 1,381

Religion[37]

* Christian – 57,665
* No Religion – 17,677, Religion Not Stated – 6,887
* Muslim – 11,046
* Hindu – 8,400

Buddhist – 862, Sikh – 252, Jewish – 147, Other Religion – 362

Gender[38]

* Female: 52,237
* Male: 51,061

## Transport and locale[edit | edit source]

File:Tram 2552 at Mitcham.JPG

Mitcham is on the Croydon Tramlink providing easy access to Wimbledon as well as Croydon

Mitcham is served by two railway stations: Mitcham Junction and Mitcham Eastfields. Mitcham Eastfields was the first suburban station to be built in 50 years in the area.[citation needed] Both stations are served by Govia Thameslink Railway's Southern and Thameslink brands with trains to Sutton, Epson, London Victoria, London Bridge (peaks only) and St Albans.[39][40]

Trains on the Thameslink route from Central London continue on via the Sutton Loop Line to Sutton and Wimbledon back towards Central London. Tramlink also serves Mitcham with four stops in the area; Mitcham Junction, Mitcham, Belgrave Walk and Phipps Bridge. Trams provide a direct service to Wimbledon, Croydon and New Addington from Mitcham and also Beckenham Junction and Elmers End with a change at Croydon.

### Bus[edit | edit source]

Bus services operated by London Buses are available from Mitcham. These include night buses to Aldwych and Liverpool Street in central London.[41]

### Coach[edit | edit source]

National Express services 028 London Victoria to Eastbourne, 025 London Victoria to Brighton and Worthing via Gatwick Airport, 026 London Victoria to Bognor Regis and A3 London Victoria to Gatwick Airport hourly shuttle all stop at Mitcham (Downe Road/Mitcham Library bus stop)[42]

Neighbouring areas

| Colliers Wood & Wimbledon | Tooting | Streatham

|
|

| North |
Morden |

WestMitchamEast

| Pollards Hill, Norbury & Thornton Heath
| South |
Sutton & Rose Hill | Hackbridge | Beddington & Croydon

## Footnotes[edit | edit source]

* "Merry Making at Mitcham". Wayback Machine. The University of Sheffield's National Fairground Archive. Archived from the original on 21 December 2004.
* "Making Merton". Merton Council. Archived from the original on 26 April 2009.
* "A Brief History of Merton by John Precedo: Part 1 – Romans to the Norman Conquest". Wayback Machine. Tooting Community Website. Archived from the original on 13 April 2005.
* Eric Norman Montague (1976). The 'Canons' Mitcham. Merton Historical Society. ISBN 0-9501488-3-0.
* Eric Norman Montague (2001). North Mitcham. Merton Historical Society. ISBN 1-903899-07-9.
* Eric Norman Montague (1996). The Historic River Wandle: Phipps Bridge to Morden Hall. Merton Historical Society. ISBN 0-905174-25-9.

## References[edit | edit source]

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2. ^ "2011 Census Ward Population Estimates | London DataStore". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
3. ^ Ordnance Survey
4. ^ "Surrey". The Domesday Book online – Surrey.
5. ^ "Open Domesday: Mitcham". Retrieved 30 October 2022.
6. ^ "Potter and Moore – An Introduction". Potter & Moore.
7. ^ "Mary Tate Almshouses – Merton Memories Photographic Archive". photoarchive.merton.gov.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
8. ^ MISS TATE'S ALMSHOUSES, MITCHAM.
9. ^ "Mary Tate Almshouses". www.londongardensonline.org.uk. Retrieved 13 June 2019.
10. ^ Daily Mirror page 13, 19 September 1934
11. ^ a b c Siddique, Haroon (19 August 2018). "World's oldest village cricket green under threat from developers, club says". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
12. ^ Pierce Egan, Pierce Egan's Anecdotes (original and Selected) of the Turf, the Chase, the Ring, and the Stage, Knight & Lacey, 1827, at page 57
13. ^ "Chapter XIV: Local Allusions to Women". sacred-texts.com. Retrieved 5 December 2013.
14. ^ wandlevalleypark.co.uk
15. ^ "The Canons, Mitcham: Dovecote – Merton Memories Photographic Archive". photoarchive.merton.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 January 2016.
16. ^ "Mitcham Methodist Church, exterior (E. Mills)". Flickr. 8 April 2010.
17. ^ Historic England
18. ^ "British Listed Buildings: Burn Bullock Public House, Merton". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk.
19. ^ "Burn Bullock, Mitcham, Surrey". ukpubfinder.com.
20. ^ Mitcham History Notes
21. ^ Amarudontv (26 December 2017), Ramz [Interview] Overcoming Exclusion From Secondary School And Growing Up In South London, retrieved 3 January 2018
22. ^ Colclough, David (19 May 2011). "Donne, John (1572–1631)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7819. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
23. ^ 'Lady Griffith-Boscawen cries over Mitcham result', Daily Graphic (4 March 1923), and other newspaper articles
24. ^ Rumbelow, Helen (28 November 2009). "The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding says that 'Kids are frightened of me'". The Sunday Times. London. Retrieved 19 October 2010.
25. ^ Mitcham at Post War English & Scottish Football League A–Z Player's Database
26. ^ David Lemmon, The History of Surrey County Cricket Club, Christopher Helm, 1989, ISBN 0-7470-2010-8, p253.
27. ^ Dorothy Whitelock, 'Florence Elizabeth Harmer', in Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain, pp. 369-380
28. ^ David M. Cummings, ed. (2000). International Who's Who in Music. Routledge. p. 268\. ISBN 0-948875-53-4.
29. ^ Wheaton, Robert (6 May 2005). "London Calling – For Congo, Columbo, Sri Lanka." PopMatters. Archived from the original on 24 January 2009. Retrieved 6 May 2007.
30. ^ Bush, John. "Slick Rick Biography and History". AllMusic. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
31. ^ Bethel, Chris; Sullivan, David (2002). Millwall Football Club 1940–2001. Tempus Publishing. p. 56\. ISBN 0-7524-2187-5.
32. ^ Mitcham at ESPNcricinfo
33. ^ "Merton: Carved in Stone: William Allison White". Retrieved 30 October 2022.
34. ^ John Simpson (18 July 2005). "How Newsnight found Zardad". BBC News. Retrieved 12 April 2007.
35. ^ "Population Density, 2011". Area: Mitcham and Morden (Westminster Parliamentary Constituency). Office for National Statistics. Archived from the original on 2 June 2015. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
36. ^ "Ethnic Group, 2011". Area: Mitcham and Morden (Westminster Parliamentary Constituency). Office for National Statistics.
37. ^ "Religion, 2011". Area: Mitcham and Morden (Westminster Parliamentary Constituency). Office for National Statistics.
38. ^ "Se, 2011". Area: Mitcham and Morden (Westminster Parliamentary Constituency). Office for National Statistics.
39. ^ Mitcham Junction National Rail
40. ^ Mitcham Eastfields National Rail
41. ^ Buses and trams from Mitcham Junction Transport for London
42. ^ "London (Mitcham) — National Express Coach Tracker". coachtracker-embed.nationalexpress.com. Retrieved 5 October 2019.

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* Sidcup
* Southgate
* South Norwood
* Stanmore
* Stoke Newington
* Surbiton
* Sydenham
* Teddington
* Thamesmead
* Tolworth
* Tulse Hill
* Twickenham
* Upminster
* Upper Norwood
* Wanstead
* Wealdstone
* Welling
* West Ham
* West Hampstead
* West Norwood
* Whitechapel
* Willesden Green
* Woodford

Neighbourhoods
(principal)|

* Abbey Wood
* Alperton
* Anerley
* Archway
* Barnes
* Barnsbury
* Battersea
* Beckton
* Bermondsey
* Bow
* Brent Cross
* Brockley
* Canonbury
* Charlton
* Chelsea
* Chessington
* Chipping Barnet
* Chislehurst
* Clerkenwell
* Elmers End
* Gidea Park
* Greenford
* Gunnersbury
* Hackbridge
* Hackney
* Ham
* Hampton
* Hanwell
* Hanworth
* Harold Wood
* Highams Park
* Highbury
* Highgate
* Hillingdon
* Hook
* Holloway
* Hoxton
* Ickenham
* Isle of Dogs
* Isleworth
* Islington
* Kensal Green
* Kew
* Lambeth
* Manor Park
* Mortlake
* Neasden
* Northolt
* Nunhead
* Plaistow (Newham)
* Poplar
* Roehampton
* Rotherhithe
* Seven Kings
* Seven Sisters
* Shoreditch
* Stamford Hill
* Stepney
* St Helier
* Surrey Quays
* Tottenham
* Upper Clapton
* Upper Holloway
* Walworth
* Wapping
* West Drayton
* Worcester Park
* Yiewsley

Lists of areas
by borough|

* Barking and Dagenham
* Barnet
* Bexley
* Brent
* Bromley
* Camden
* Croydon
* Ealing
* Enfield
* Greenwich
* Hackney
* Hammersmith and Fulham
* Haringey
* Harrow
* Havering
* Hillingdon
* Hounslow
* Islington
* Kensington and Chelsea
* Kingston upon Thames
* Lambeth
* Lewisham
* Merton
* Newham
* Redbridge
* Richmond upon Thames
* Southwark
* Sutton
* Tower Hamlets
* Waltham Forest
* Wandsworth
* Westminster

Fictional|

* Canley (borough) (The Bill: TV soap)
* Charnham (suburb) (Family Affairs: TV soap)
* London Below (magical realm) (Neverwhere: TV series, novel)
* Walford (borough) (EastEnders: TV soap)

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