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Mitcham in 1838: A Survey by Messrs Crawter & Smith
April 14, 2017
…193 Bygrove Mead 10 3 15 meadow meadow 10 3 15 193 FLOOD, Henry 49 49 490 195 Garden 7 sundries sundries 7 195 FLOOD, Henry 49 49 491 49…
08 Phipps Bridge
April 16, 2017
…liability to flooding, and with too high a water table for cultivation, their principal function in the economy of medieval and Tudor Mitcham would have been as a source of…
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
…only has the nature of local industry changed, but controls on pollution and penalties for infringement are much stricter. Also sophisticated flood prevention measures upstream now minimise the dangers of…
Bulletin 164
April 22, 2017
…1944. We look forward to more articles from David. © The recent flooding in our area inspired Cyril Maidment to look at maps and photographs of the severe flooding that…
Bulletin 214
June 26, 2020
Download Bulletin 214 June 2020 – Bulletin 214 Message from the Chairman – Keith Penny The Shannon Corner flooding 1981 – Mick Taylor Tew many Roberts: just who was the…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
by Lionel Green A Priory Revealed, which bears the subtitle – ‘using material relating to Merton Priory’ – draws upon a wide range of primary and secondary sources in order…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
…want of a millstone because no carts were able to travel because of the great flood at that time’ until St Valentine’s day.150 Millstones were obtained from Kingston, London, Wandsworth…
06 Mitcham Bridge, The Watermeads and the Wandle Mills
April 16, 2017
…enrichment to the soil. Alternatively, the land could have been allowed to flood again, and a second fodder crop removed in late summer. What could be evidence of this regime…
10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…on the rich alluvial soil to be found overlying the terrace gravels of the Wandle flood plain. As one might expect in these circumstances, much of Lank’s holding was arable,…
13 Willow Lane and Beddington Corner
April 16, 2017
…known as the ‘Horse Meads’, were evidently prone to flooding and seem to have been kept as rough pasture or watermeadow until the mid-18th century, after which they were used…
WJR Morden
Bulletin 213
March 25, 2020
…13 Heath Robinson Museum – Chris Abbott 16 Shannon Corner flooding 1981 (or was it 1982?) – Mick Taylor & Norma Cox 16 PROGRAMME MARCH-SEPTEMBER 2020 Saturday 14 March 2.30pm…
Bulletin 201
April 22, 2017
…river channels, backwaters, peat, and flood silts. The sequence dated from just after the last Ice Age until nearly modern times, the latest soils being typical of ‘late post-medieval’ water…
4 A Century of Change
May 19, 2017
…structure of Hatfeild School had to be rebuilt in 1994 due to subsidence. The new building (left) was badly damaged by flooding in the summer of 1981 and was again…
Memories of a Morden Lad 1932-1957
April 14, 2017
…in floods of tears. They must have had a very volatile relationship; his drinking was the cause of most of the rows. My father was just sixty when he died…