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Bulletin 174
April 22, 2017
…. By the early years of the 20th century these farms and estates were struggling to remain profitable, and it was probably with some relief that the owners found a…
JUSTICE TO MEN AND COUNTRY: The Mitcham Military Tribunal, 1916–1918
August 17, 2017
…men of all grades on their Mitcham farms, which were about 400 acres in extent. No fewer than 84 had since joined the colours, and of the remainder about 60…
4 A Century of Change
May 19, 2017
…Hopkins 2000 John Goddard 2000 Hatfeild School was built in 1952, in the grounds of an old farmstead that had been occupied since at least the 13th century. The farmhouse…
Bulletin 211
October 12, 2019
…end of Merton. Certainly in 1844 the tithe apportionment reveals that two of the four farms carved from the former West Barnes estate were mostly under arable, apart from the…
Bulletin 166
April 22, 2017
…settlement names imply an abundance of surface water: Merton is a ‘farmstead by a pool’ (first recorded in 967 AD), while Morden is a ‘hill or rise in marshland’ (mentioned…
Morden Park
April 15, 2017
A booklet on Morden Park, by former Borough librarian Evelyn Jowett, was published by Merton Historical Society in 1977, but has long been out of print. Since then further information…
Bulletin 157
April 22, 2017
…accounts listing property belonging to the priory of Merton there is reference to the “Firma Man’ de Byggying ‘t Tamworth”. Biggin can be identified with a farmstead in north Mitcham…
Bulletin 133
April 22, 2017
Download Bulletin 133 March 2000 – Bulletin 133 Chronology of Merton Priory buildings – L E Green Thomas Vernon of Mitcham (1781-1846) – E N Montague George Frederick Hall (1811-93)…
Bulletin 142
April 22, 2017
…Arbuthnot published An Inquiry into the Connection between the Present Price of Provisions and the Size of Farms, with Remarks on Population as affected thereby, etc. by a Farmer, in…
Bulletin 139
April 22, 2017
…provided foci for early settlements in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages. Scattered early Saxon farms were apparently abandoned by the 9th century, when a royal estate was set up on…
Bulletin 189
April 22, 2017
…particularly liked Band of the Holborn Schools 1922 and the map placing the four big farms of Mitcham. I must mention the 86 pages of the cumulative index to the…
Bulletin 192
April 22, 2017
…odour of many flowers, for here flowers are cultivated just as cereals are on farms elsewhere. Roses, in their season, are grown for the making of rosewater, and herbs for…
Bulletin 135
April 22, 2017
…from pagan Saxon to medieval times run counter to the current received wisdom that settlement nucleation from early Saxon dispersed farmsteads occurred around 900, perhaps for greater security during a…
Bulletin 134
April 22, 2017
…century as a farmstead to the east of Figges Marsh. The name is fairly common in the Midlands, where it is derived from the Middle English .bigging., meaning a building…
Lost Common Lands – Morden Common
April 14, 2017
…By the eighteenth century local farmers had consolidated their farms and turned part of the fields to grass and later still are known to have hired grazing land elsewhere in…
Bulletin 209
March 2, 2019
…so he was presumably living here. (Christopher had also leased one of the two Morden farms within the neighbouring manor of Ravensbury in 1787.) Rose responded that she did not…
Bulletin 170
April 22, 2017
…immediate occupation, the compact farms known as Morden-park,5 Peacock,6 and Hobalds,7 with first-rate homesteads, numerous small occupations, and accommodation lands, an attractive building estate called Raynes-park, with its adjacent beautifully…
Bulletin 180
April 22, 2017
…listed in 1312 each held more than 10 acres, of whom all but two had farmsteads in Lower Morden, grouped around Morden Green. The other two were in the road…