The London district of Merton is a district ( Borough ) of the Large London. This district, founded in 1965 by fusion of the district of Merton and Morden with those of Mitcham and Wimbledon of the Surrey, account more than 191.000 inhabitants.

The principal commercial zones of this district are Wimbledon, Mitcham and Morden, Wimbledon being most important. Among the secondary commercial zones, one can note the park of Raynes, the wood of Collars, the park of southern Wimbledon, Wimbledon and the hill with the tadpoles.

Historically, the name of Merton indicated a parish now located in the sector of southern Wimbledon. In a district which gathers districts of very varied social composition, energy of Wimbledon (rather easy) with Mitcham (rather popular), this name is perceived like a compromise.

Districts of Merton

• Bushy Mead
• Collars Wood
• Copse Hill
• Cottenham Park
• Merton
• Merton Park
• Mitcham
• Morden
• Morden Park
• Motspur Park
• Raynes Park
• South Wimbledon
• Summerstown
• West Barnes
• Wimbledon (see Tournament of Wimbledon)
• Wimbledon Park

History of the city

In 1236 Henry III met his barons with the priory to be appropriate the statutes of Merton, an important base of right modern English coutoumier. The king also brought the Queen Eleanor being crowned to the priory by same year. Henry VI, only king of England to be crowned apart from abbey of Westminster in 1.000 last years, held his ceremony of crowning in Priory de Merton in 1437. Among those educated with the priory were Thomas Becket and Nicholas Brakespeare, which was the only always English pope. Adrian IV (Brakespeare) was the pope who granted to the English King Henry II the seigniory of Ireland in 1155. Moreover informed there was Walter de Merton, a future lord chancellor of England and bishop of Rochester. It is also famous to be the founder of the university of Merton at the university of Oxford in 1264. The priory by the river was dismantled in 1538 as an element of the dissolution of Henry VIII of the monasteries and only some remainders survive in addition to manner of Merantun.

The sector passed soon with the hands of the royalty in those of the successful merchants. Industry examé the banks of Wandle, whose fluid water provided the ideal power for the process of milling. The flour, the snuff, copper, iron, leather and dyeings very opened out on the river at the points like the bridge of Mitcham and the bridge of Phipps. From here 1750, the abbey and Mitcham de Merton had become the principal centers of fabric of printing banner in England. The industrial output increased in the valley of Wandle led to the construction of the first public railroad of the world, the horse-drawn railroad of iron of Surrey, which opened in 1803.

In 1881, William Morris opened a factory with the abbey of Merton producing of the goods of quality: printed fabrics and woven, soiled glass, furnishing, tapestry and carpet. Morris is famous as a founder of arts and the movement of trade, which rejected the execution produced in series of the industrial age. Its trade continued by company until 1940.

The mills of abbey were also the base for a freedom of Arthur, an eminent victorien different and a founder from the stores of famous freedom. Work of freedom produced thousands yards of silks printed by hand which made with freedom a name of household.

Nelson entered the Room of place of Merton in addition to main street of Merton in 1801. He liked his house of country in Merton, and wrote in his diary while he left for the countryside Trafalgar: “With half after ten that I led by expensive, dear Merton where I left all I judge expensive in this world to go to serve my king and country”. The strongly respected sailor remained in Merton until his death into 1805 with the hands of the fleet of Napoleon during the battle of Trafalgar. The admiral the lord Nelson and his family adored with the 12th church of street Mary of century in park of Merton.

People of the high society of London started to populate Merton shortly after that the railroad reached the city. The stores such as Elys in 1876 opened to cover the taste of the new suburban residents. In 1868 the whole the club of play of croquet of England was founded in the road of Worple. Its name was changed in 1877 by maintaining world-famous all the club of tennis of play of croquet and lawn of England, and it later moved with the road of church. Increased Merton as London became become more the big city in the world.

The trams came in Mitcham and Wimbledon in 1906 and 1907 respectively. Motorbuses took their first passengers of park of Raynes and dropped them to far to the street from Liverpool in 1914. London under ground reached the wood of Collars, Wimbledon of the south and Morden from here 1926. These improvements of transport transformed Morden from a small community of farm of 1.000 of 1900 into residential suburbs of 12.618 within thirty year.

The second world war damaged considerable Merton. Housing was in a great request in the era of post-war period and of new fields were built with the bridge of Phipps, the hill of étêtés trees and the high way in Wimbledon. The re-establishment of the war was painfully slow and the lacks of food did not finish completely until 1956. Arrangements of rebuilding remarkably were successful and the crowning of Elizabeth II in 1953 marked the beginning of a new era.

The multitude had arranged inside from here 1965, when the creation of the new city provided the impulse for more growth. Five new centers of city emerged to form Merton which we know today: Wood, Mitcham, Morden, park of Raynes and Wimbledon de Colliers. They are all mainly residential sectors, each one with their own advertizing film and of the shopping malls. People are amused by theaters, cinemas, the packing of lever, teams of football, the international tournament of tennis, and the cricket played on the ground of oldest Cricket of the world with Mitcham.

Merton today

The census of 2001 showed that 25% of the population belonged to ethnic minorities. These minorities are especially in the east of the city. It is probable that their proportion since then increased.

According to the comparative evaluation of the council of the district made in 2004, it was in the south and the east that unemployment rates, the educational level and the quality of health were worst. The richest zones were in north and in the west.

External bonds

• Official site of Merton

Simple: London Borough off Merton

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