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Biggin Avenue
Preserves the old name ‘La Byggynge’
1301, ‘Biggen’ 1587, ‘Begin’ 1765, ‘Biggin Farm’ 1876, that is 'the building", from
Middle English ‘bigging’.
Bond Road
Old peoples
flats 1966
Eveline Road
Potter and Moore distillery, for Lavender
oil, 1800s note sheet taken over by Bush.
Site overlooked Figges Marsh. Moore
was the landowner and grew poppies for opium, and hemp and wormwood as a
hallucinogen for use in Mitcham ales.They had taken over Tamworth Farm.
Fair Green
Bull's Head named
after the Elizabethan owner, rebuilt 20th;
Green Goose
fair held there until 1924 when it moved to Three Kings Piece.
Fountains Place
Low pale brick terraces 1966-9 agreeably planned pedestrian routes, but
starkly detailed.
Hundred Acre Bridge
Marsh Avenue
Western Road
Good
houses. A dreary area of gasometers and factories.
Mitcham Gas
Works 1827 with a reversion clause on the lease to return to lavender growing
should the works fail from
Zion chapel 1818 now
industrial. Became Leyens cardboard
factory. Stock brick, with pedimented gable.
Bulky red brick ziggurats 1972-6
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