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Lower Morden and Morden Park
April 15, 2017
…divided between four large farms. Instead of the scattered small fields which had developed over the centuries, the fields attached to the new farms were in more compact blocks. Many…
Medieval Morden: Landscape and Landholding
March 9, 2022
…the roll for 1399/1400 followed this with a new section headed ‘farms’, which purports to list properties leased at farm. Among the eight entries is: ‘From John Edward for farm…
03 Pollards Hill Commonside East and Lonesome
April 16, 2017
…Grouped around the farmstead at Lonesome were four enclosures kept permanently under grass, providing pasturage for horses and other farm stock. One, a meadow of L-shaped plan enclosing the farm…
02 North Mitcham
April 16, 2017
…Merton Libraries. Its place was taken by a detached villa, named Tamworth Farm, erected partly on the newly-enclosed land between the old farmstead and the main road. ‘Tamworth Farmhouse’, 106…
10 Ravensbury
April 16, 2017
…mid-18th century by John Arbuthnot of Ravensbury Manor House for a new farmstead, all trace of which has now gone. It remains a reasonable assumption that a manor house stood…
14 Upper Mitcham and Western Road
April 16, 2017
…expansion of the London suburbs beyond Tooting in the 1870s and ’80s, farms were scattered throughout the parish, ranging in size from nearly 500 acres down to mere smallholdings. Some…
11 The Cranmers, The Canons and Park Place
April 16, 2017
…seem feasible, therefore, for farmsteads to have continued into the Saxon period, and with a little imagination we can see in the earliest large-scale maps of the area, produced after…
Bulletin 132
April 22, 2017
…were allowed to return to their homeland, but they found themselves barred from their former farmsteads, and were obliged to settle in isolated groups on the barren lands along Nova…
13 Willow Lane and Beddington Corner
April 16, 2017
…we have suggested, it seems feasible for the site of the house to have been occupied by a farmstead for a very long time, there is not a shred of…
A Priory Revealed
April 13, 2017
…the early 14th century, when continued benefactions enabled churches to be rebuilt and farms re-ordered. Larger barns were required for increased amounts of produce. Land improvements included drainage and the…
Medieval Morden: The Manorial Economy
November 20, 2020
…of the preceding year £7. For rent at the same place £4 4s 9½d. For farms at the same place 68s 6d. For rent in kind 4s 1d. For profits…
12 Church Street and Whitford Lane
April 16, 2017
…four centuries of the Roman period, probably as family groups in widely dispersed farmsteads. This scattered community, presumably of native stock, is likely to have had some sub-tribal cohesion, perhaps…
Bulletin 129
April 22, 2017
…originated from Merton Priory, via the demolished Nonsuch Palace. All in all, the site produces evidence of occupation through many centuries. Farms existed long before Carshalton House was built, and…
09 Colliers Wood or ‘Merton Singlegate’
April 16, 2017
Mitcham Histories 9 by Eric Montague An outlying settlement within the future parish of Mitcham, Colliers Wood can be identified with a Saxon estate, and a substantial house may be…