Origin of name

Morden gets its title either from either a Saxon words "Mawr" (high) and Don (the hill), or even even "The Den on the Moor".

A brief history of Morden

Early history

Act inside Morden dates back to the prehistoric period when Celtic tribes are known to stand occupied areas as much as Wimbledon, London, but a number one important development within Morden was the construction of the Roman road called Stane Street from Chichester to London.

A route of Stane Street through Morden followed a todays A24, London Road higher Stonecot Hill from either the south west crossing Morden Park to the west of the current dual carriageway road & passing through a pitch & putting links course and the evidence of St Lawrence's Church. A road so descended a more side of capitol hill towards a town centre passing west of the Underground station and crossing the northward corner of Morden Hall Park running in the counsel of Colliers Wood and Tooting. Microscopic Roman artefacts, mainly coins & pottery, keep close at hand been discovered at various locations inside a front yard although no grounds to believe of any cash settlement.

Ethelstan a Etheling, boy of Ethelred the Unready, left "land at Mordune" to the abbey of Christ and St. Peter within his may of 1015, which became the places of the number 1 Saxon parish church of St Lawrence. Late in the 11th century Morden is mentioned in the Domesday Book when it belonged to Westminster Abbey and just Fourteen population sleep in the area.

The Garth family

A manor & village remained abbey property until a dissolution of the monasteries in Henry VIII's reign when a manor was sold to Sir Richard Garth world health organization became Lord of the Manor. A Garth personal owned a l& and maintained their connection sustaining a parish for the next iv centuries, residing at Morden Hall Park until the 1870s.

A prominence of the Garth personal is recorded locally in the title of Garth Road, Lower Morden and the previous Garth School. Them lions involved in the present civic arms of the London Borough of Merton are adopted from a arms of Sir Richard.

19th Century
Despite a rapid suburban development of nearby Wimbledon occasioned by the arrival of the fresh railways constructed in the mid 19th century, Morden remained a rural parish throughout a 19th century. When a people of Wimbledon grew hugely from either 1,591 around 1801 to 41,652 in 1901, the people of Morden was 512 inside 1801 &, 1 hundred years late, experienced grown to merely 960.

A 1st Ordnance Survey map of the parish produced circa 1871 () shows the little village of Morden clustered as much as St Lawrence’s church at the top of the hill on the road from London to Epsom (now the A24, London Road/Epsom Road). Close to half a mile to the west of the independent village & the evidence of Morden Park stood the hamlet of Lower Morden.

More or less the church were a George Inn (a 17th century coaching inn which remains, in a very much modernized form, when the share of a national saloon eating place chain), the estate of Morden Park and a school.

the more independent gin mill in a village was the Crown Inn, placed northward east of the village by using a little cluster of bungalow in Crown Road. A rest of what is currently a commercial message centre of Morden was fields.

In the late 19th century a principal industry remained agriculture, although a few industrial activity did survive along the flow of any stream Wandle where watermills ground tobacco to snuff and a varnish works existed some a places of Poplar Primary School.

20th Century

A 1st 2 decades of the 20th century saw little change around the village by using industry however primarily agrarian in nature and severity. It was non until 1926 when Morden Underground station opened as the terminus of a newly extension of the London Underground's Northern Line that the convenient & directly route to central London opened up a village for residential development.

To complement the freshly station, a his pickup was constructed on the other side of London Road, adjacent to the railway cutting &, within 1932, Morden Cinema was built next to it on the corner of Aberconway Road & opened within 1932. About the station the recently commercial message centre grew quickly when shops uprise along London Road & Crown Lane, including a big Co-operative Society department store & the rebuilt and hypertrophied Crown saloon.

Out of a newly commercial message centre of Morden, a existent rural roads were widened & rebuilt & a fields were apace divided into building plots & placed out for freshly housing. Farther transportation improvements come by having the construction of a recently Southern Railway branch line from Wimbledon to Sutton via South Merton and Morden South (so known as, presumptively, to differentiate it from either Morden Underground Station and Morden Road Station (now tramstop) although it was actually n east of the original village centre). A just released line opened around January 1930. Following of the newly conveyance links, the people of Morden had a sudden leap from either 1,355 around 1921 to 12,618 in 1931. around a next xv years the people continued to develop when virtually all of the parish was covered in newly suburban homes.

One of a independent residential developments in the 1930s was the St Helier estate, built per London County Council (LCC) to house workers from either inner London and named around honour of Lady St Helier, an alderman of the LCC. A estate was a big local authority development withinside to a south London & has its traveling list intended in alphabetical sequentially, from either the northerly-north-west corner (Abbotsbury Road) to the south-south-east corner (Woburn Road). Reflecting a last ownership of the land by Westminster Abbey, all come known as when religious establishments. Virtually all of the St Helier estate today lies in the London Borough of Sutton.

Today

Morden town centre

Little of a sooner rural character of Morden survived the suburban expansion, although the region has fantabulous provision of parks & swimming fields, several of the two created from either remnants of the previous united states estates. These are, mostly, the suburban area.

A Crown gin mill was demolished in the early 1960s to make way for a fourteen-storey professional prevent Crown Home & the big supermarket (the supermarket was successively demolished in the Eighties & replaced per Civic Centre/Library). A Co-op, cinema and his pickup were everthing demolished in the 1980s or 1990s.

Landmarks

St Lawrence Church, Morden Morden Baptist Church Morden Hall Park Morden Park The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community has built the big mosque in Western Europe inside Morden (in London Road on the places of the previous Express Dairy depot), & it was opened in October 2003.

Transport connections

Nigh tube station:

Morden Underground station

Close train depot & tramlink stops (in approximate sequentially of proximity):

Morden South railway station Morden Road tram station St. Helier railway station Mitcham tram station Belgrave Walk tram station Sutton Common railway station South Merton railway station

Nearest places

Merton Park Lower Morden South Wimbledon St Helier Mitcham Wimbledon Chase Raynes Park Motspur Park Wimbledon Rose Hill Sutton Cheam Colliers Wood