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Thames Tributaries – the River Wandle
Springs and streams join the Wandle
and flow south
Acre Lane
War memorial on Wallington Green
facing the road
Belmont Road
Part of Wallington Old Town developed by Bridges in the
1860s
Bernard Road
Built in 1908 on the site of Wallington Lodge
Carshalton Park
The area
was once a part of a medieval deer park around a manor house called Mascalls. This
was rebuilt in the early 18th. The park now covers what were the
grounds of Carshalton Place which once stretched as far as the High Street and
included The Orangery.
Carshalton Place,
demolished in 1927. It was possibly a late c 18 rebuilding of an older house
called Mascalls. A design made by Leoni for a house on this site for Thomas
Scawen, c. 1723-7, was never carried out.
Chestnut
trees planted in 17th and some of the oldest trees in the area.
Grotto. This is at the head of a long canal of water, which is usually dry. It has a
three arch centre with the central arch taller and wider. Inside, is a vestibule with niches at the ends, and an octagon room behind with a coved ceiling. It was built for Thomas
Scawen and said to cover springs which feed the Wandle.
Gates to the park
– proposed gates are now in a park in New York.
Hog Pit. Just inside the entrance is a sunken dell
called 'The Hog Pit’? It is first
recorded in 1440. Is it an old chalk pit?
Sometimes it fills with water and is said to have been used as a
reservoir in the 18th It may have been rebuilt to resemble an amphitheatre
Canal – remains
of an ornamental canal going from the grotto northwards
Wall – the wall
is said to be haunted
Carshalton Park Estate
Sale and consequent house building in the 1890s.
Clifton Road
Part of Wallington Old Town developed by Bridges in the
1860s
Croydon Road
At the corner of Wallington Green is a shopping parade,
1930s, with a clock on the corner building.
377 with original shop front
Danbury Terrace
Built as stables and for light industrial use by Henry
Clarke along with Danbury Mews and Villas
Ede removal firm, there since 1880s
Devonshire Road
Grove Ironworks Mill. This was on the edge of what
is now the Grove playing field. It was originally built in the 1777s as a snuff
mill and worked until 1864. It was converted
to iron working in 1867 by John Smith, a mill engineer, and he made machinery
here used in many surrounding mills. It closed in 1944 and was burnt down in
the 1950s. The Westcroft Canal formed the head race of the mill.
Westcroft Canal. All that remains is the embankment of
this canal which took water from the canal coming from the grotto in Carshalton
Park.
Festival Walk
Runs beside the course of a stream - often dry - which flows from the
area of Carshalton House via Carshalton Water House to Carshalton Ponds.
Another channel ran from here to a bath house in North Street
Plane tree in
Guinness Book of Records. Says it is the highest in the country at 125'. It is 200 years old and has a girth of 65’.
The Old Rectory, Ecology Centre. An early 18th red brick house but
there was probably an earlier Rectory building on the site. The grounds of the
Centre were the gardens of The Lodge and subsequently used by the Council as a
tree nursery
High Street
Medieval market place at the junction with The Square with
a charter from 1259,
16-20, timber-framed, are
perhaps 17th.
26-27 National Westminster Bank originally the London and County Bank
1901. Art Nouveau ground floor and door by Frederick Wheeler.
35- 37 listed O’Neills. Used to be the Green Man
58-82 listed
Carshalton Theatre, current design by Edward Culminant,
Architects. A community theatre in two blocks: with a 180 seat theatre fronting
the street with an existing facade; and a new workshop block to the rear. Listed.
The building was built in 1874 as Carshalton Public Hall and has been used as a
cinema and a roller skating rink.
41 Fox and Hounds. 18th but much altered from 1860
Beacon Grove. Shopping Precinct and flats, running back to
The Grove, by Robert J. Wood & Partners,
1967-8.
Lavender Road
Built in 1908 on the site of Wallington Lodge
Manor Road
Manor Road south of the crossroads used to be called
Hollow Way and lead to a strip field system. Housing was developed here in the
1790s to cater for local workers
Wallington Green. Called the Bowling Green in the 18th
when it had much same shape as now.
Old sign for the Duke’s Head
Duke’s Head. In
the 18th the site of Bowling Green House
Cottages, called Osborn’s Row developed here in the 1790s
to cater for local workers. The pub was extended in 1998. Stable block with
sign about ‘Livery and bait’. Its
position at the crossroads implies it was particularly important for horse
drawn trade. Owned by Youngs since 1857.
8-16 Manor Terrace. Terrace of houses
built in 1790s but upgraded in the 1840s by cheesemonger Juggins.
32 Ivy Bank, just out and has trellis
porch. Stables behind originally used by
Cannon Brothers, blacksmiths
Cawley’s Hill was an old footpath beside
no. 32
Greenview House, 1980s brick office
block
Holy Trinity Church. Victorian and basically flint and stone, with a tower and spire. Monument
to William Scawen. Built 1867 designed by Habershon & Brock. Built by
landowner Nathanial Bridges as part of his plans for a suburb here.
Mint Road
Built in 1908 on the site of Wallington Lodge
Oakham Road
Built on part of a mill site
Paper Mill Close
Carshalton Paper Mill.
Site of the earliest paper mill on the Wandle dating from the mid-17th. In 1777 William Curteis was using it and it
continued as a paper mill until 1905. Later it became a chemical works. New
housing has been built on the site and there are no remains..
Park Road
Part of Wallington Old Town developed by Bridges in the
1860s
Quinton Close
Site of the Manor House at Wallington Green, rebuilt in
the 17th and 18th.
Ruskin Road
Methodist Church. Built 1926 by Andrew Mather.
The Grove
Recorded as ‘Kersalton Grove’ in
1409, that is ‘the copse at Carshalton', from Old English groffa. It is now a
public garden, once the grounds of a private house. The original mansion was in
North Street/Mill Lane but was rebuilt in the 19th on a different
site as The Grove. Taken over by the Council in 1924 and turned into public
space.
Carshalton Upper Mill. This was a corn mill modernised in the 1830s. It is probably on the site of a Domesday Mill
and known as the ‘Town Mill’ in the 14th and 15th. In 1783 it was rebuilt to a design of John
Smeaton’s with two overshot wheels – one of which was later replaced by a
breastshot wheel. The Stone wheel pits
date from then. It also had ten pairs of French stones and a low pressure beam
engine. The mill was demolished in the 1887 when it was sold and a building was
put up for electricity generation by the breastshot wheel for The Grove and
Stone Court. This building has since been restored.
Water wheel. Fragment of a large waterwheel set in
cement. Listed Grade II, It was a water
wheel for the flour mill.
Grove House. House
built in the early 19th. Now council offices. It replaced Stone
Court.
The Square
Library.
Built as council offices this was once Carshalton
Civic Offices with a fire station built in 1908 to the designs of R Frank
Atkinson.
The Orangery – a two column house which may be part of plans by Leoni for a more elaborate building
to stand as a garden building in the grounds of Carshalton Place. It was converted to offices in 1980 and used by
various public bodies.
Vellum Road
New built houses on a mill site, the name reflecting some
local products.
Westcroft Road
37 Parkfields. Outbuildings to a big house called
Parkfields, since demolished.
38 Bramblehaw End.
The old stables of a big house called Bramblehaw, since demolished.
40
Bramblehaw Cottage. This was an outbuilding to a big house called Bramblehaw,
since demolished.
Sports and leisure centre. 1977 by Module 2 Ltd and the Borough Architect.
Carshalton Parish Boundary stone 1792.
Walls to the original Parkfields House, 18th
red brick.
Whitehall Place
Unmade up road built 1790s with three original houses
Allotments on the site of the Rookery, also built 1790s
and bombed.
Wrights Row
Once an area of common fields with an entrance from
Wallington Green. Housing was developed here in the 1790s to cater for local
workers built and funded by Major Wright
3-9 original cottages, listed
Loraine House built by Major Wright and the home of the
Loraine family from 1800. Some garden
walls survive around modern flats built in 1949 by Robert Atkinson
Garden house of 18th from the original house
Girl Guide HQ built in 1955 on the gardens of Loraine
House.
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