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Shops in Merton, Lower Morden, in 1997
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Lower Morden
Location within Greater London
Population9,090 (2011 Census. Ward) [1]
OS grid reference TQ238670
London borough
Ceremonial county Greater London
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town MORDEN
Postcode district SM4
Post town LONDON
Postcode district SW20
Dialling code 020
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51°23′18″N0°13′11″W / 51.3884°N 0.2198°W / 51.3884; -0.2198 Coordinates: 51°23′18″N0°13′11″W / 51.3884°N 0.2198°W / 51.3884; -0.2198

Lower Morden is an area within the district of Morden in south west corner of the London Borough of Merton, to the west of Morden Park and south of Raynes Park.

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History

Until it was absorbed by the suburban expansion of the 1930s, the hamlet of Lower Morden was a small rural farming community within the parish of Morden approximately half a mile to the west of the main village situated at the top of the hill. Lower Morden had grown up around the village green and the Beverley and Pyl Brooks.

In the 1870s, the main properties of Lower Morden were Morden Farm (close to the modern school of the same name and on the site of Hatfeild School), Peacock Farm (now covered by Cranmer Close and Cardinal Avenue) and Hobalds Farm. Close by was Morden Common.

Today nothing of the original hamlet remains except perhaps a few ancient trees and old field boundary lines followed by the alignments of the roads that were to replace them. The first major development was the establishment in 1891 of Battersea New Cemetery (now Morden Cemetery) on land adjacent to Hobalds Farm to the north of Green Lane. The loss of Morden Common followed, its area now occupied by the Merton & Sutton Joint Cemetery and the Garth Road Industrial Estate. Garth Road is named after the Garth family, Lords of the Manor from the mid 16th century to the late 19th century.

Up to the Second World War the marshy land either side of the Pyl Brook now used as playing fields was cow pasture. The majority of residential development took place in the late 1930s with mock Tudor style houses being built between Morden Park and Stonecot Hill and north between Grand Drive, Hillcross Avenue and Cannon Hill Lane.

A map of Lower Morden from the 1920s Mordenmap 1920s.png
A map of Lower Morden from the 1920s
A map of Lower Morden from 1944 Morden map 1944.jpg
A map of Lower Morden from 1944

Demography

The Lower Morden ward had one of the lowest crime rates in Greater London in the 2014/15 period. [2]

Sport and recreation

Lower Morden has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V.

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References

  1. "Merton Ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
  2. "Ward Profiles and Atlas – London Datastore".