Merton (London)

Merton Priory stood where the Wandle meets the old Roman road, and the priory and the river's watermills give this corner of...

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Merton Priory stood where the Wandle meets the old Roman road, and the priory and the river's watermills give this corner of south-west London a longer history than its suburban streets suggest. Prints of 1888 and 1926 show the Norman archway and ruined interior of the priory, a waterwheel on the Wandle and the house associated with Daniel Defoe. The maps run from a twentieth-century edition of Rocque's survey of 1746 through Bacon's district maps from 1886 onwards and the Geographers' A-Z sheets of 1948 to 1964, following the streets of South Wimbledon, Colliers Wood, Morden and Mitcham as they filled in. Once part of Surrey, the area was joined with Morden, Mitcham and Wimbledon in the London borough created in 1965.

Merton Priory stood where the Wandle meets the old Roman road, and the priory and the river's watermills give this corner of south-west London a longer history than its suburban streets suggest. Prints of 1888 and 1926 show the Norman archway and ruined interior of the priory, a waterwheel on the Wandle and the house associated with Daniel Defoe. The maps run from a twentieth-century edition of Rocque's survey of 1746 through Bacon's district maps from 1886 onwards and the Geographers' A-Z sheets of 1948 to 1964, following the streets of South Wimbledon, Colliers Wood, Morden and Mitcham as they filled in. Once part of Surrey, the area was joined with Morden, Mitcham and Wimbledon in the London borough created in 1965.

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