Mitcham

Mitcham is a region in south west London, situated inside the London Borough of Merton. It is focused 7.2 miles south-west of Charing Cross. A rural territory, Mitcham is situated on the fringe of Inner London and Outer London, and is in the notable region of Surrey. It is both privately and fiscally created and served via prepare, transport and cable car courses. Territories inside Mitcham incorporate Mitcham Town Center and Mitcham Common.

Courtesies incorporate Mitcham Library and Mitcham Cricket Green. Close-by areas incorporate Wimbledon, Streatham, Croydon, Tooting, Morden and Sutton. Mitcham itself had a populace of 63,393 which incorporates the appointive wards of Cricket Green, Figges Marsh, Graveney, Lavender Fields, Longthornton and Pollards Hill in 2011 however its urban zone had a populace of 103,298. The toponym "Mitcham" is Old English in cause and means enormous settlement.

Before the Romans and Saxons were available, there was a Celtic settlement in the territory, with proof of a slope fortress in the Pollards Hill region. The revelation of Roman-period graves and a well on the site of the Mitcham gas works display Roman settlement. The Saxon memorial park, situated on the North bank of the Wandle is the biggest found to date, and a significant number of the finds in that are in plain view in the British Museum. Researchers, for example, Myres have recommended that Mitcham and different Thames Valley settlements were a portion of the primary populated by the Anglo-Saxons.