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The London Borough of Merton and its council were created under the London Government Act 1963, with the first election held in 1964. [3] For its first year the council acted as a shadow authority alongside the area's three outgoing authorities, being the councils of the municipal boroughs of Mitcham and Wimbledon and the urban district of Merton and Morden. [4]
The London Borough of Merton (/ ˈ m ɜːr t ə n / ⓘ) is a London borough in London, England.The borough was formed under the London Government Act 1963 in 1965 by the merger of the Municipal Borough of Mitcham, the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District, all formerly within Surrey.
[10] [11] In 2015 the Merton Heritage & Local Studies Centre hosted a series of "War Story Days" to meet with residents and record their experiences from the First World War for a new project entitled "Carved in Stone", material from which was published on the centre's website. [12] This was followed up with a "Heritage Discovery Day" in May ...
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Merton Park is an area within the district of Morden in the London Borough of Merton. [2] Bordering areas are Colliers Wood , Morden , South Wimbledon and Raynes Park . It is 7.25 miles (11.67 km) southwest of Charing Cross .
The MPWRA has two councillors on Merton London Borough Council, and for this purpose is registered as the political party Merton Park Ward Independent Residents. [ 9 ] The MPWRA was formed in 1989 in order to contest a by-election that October in the Merton Park ward, caused by the resignation of a Conservative councillor.
Merton College has existed since around 1890. A new building was erected in 1971 with additional blocks in later years. [7] It formerly occupied a site on Central Road in the borough, which was sold to Barratt Homes, a housing developer. [8] [9] Merton College merged with South Thames College in 2009.
Merton Park is quite widely used as a name for the neighbourhood. Merton itself is a rarely used name, among residents and businesses in the borough at any rate, to describe any particular district of the borough, with popular preference turning to the new 19th-century "Park" and "Wood" estates designated by the railway stations as they all unusually here formed new parishes.