Municipal Borough of Mitcham

Mitcham
History
• Created	1915
• Abolished	1965
• Succeeded by	London Borough of Merton
Status	urban district (until 1934) municipal borough (after 1934)

Mitcham was a local government district in north east Surrey from 1915 to 1965 around the town of Mitcham.

It was created in 1915 as an urban district from part of the abolished Croydon Rural District. It gained the status of municipal borough in 1934.

In 1965, under the London Government Act 1963, the municipal borough was abolished and its area combined with that of the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon and the Merton and Morden Urban District to form the present-day London Borough of Merton in Greater London.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of the municipal borough were granted in 1934 and defined as:

Shield

A pale vert (green central vertical band), representing the green of Mitcham. The centre has a fess wavy argent (silver wavy horizontal band) charged with a barulet wavy azure (blue narrow wavy bar) to indicate the ford of north Mitcham, which was once known as Whitford. Below the fess, a tower argent (silver tower) represents the great dwelling, from which Mitcham got its earlier name of Michelham. Above the fess, cross-keys and sword or (gold) represent Mitcham's patron saints, St. Peter and St. Paul. On each side of the pale is a sprig of lavender proper (in its natural colour).

Crest

Three sprigs of lavender on a wreath or and vert entwined by a mural coronet (wall-like crenellated crown, indicative of municipal status).^[1]

Motto

"Mitcham Faeste Gestandeþ" - Mitcham stands fast (Old English).

References

↑ "Civic Heraldry, Mitcham Borough Council". Retrieved 2007-12-27.

External links

A Vision of Britain - Mitcham UD/MB

Local government districts abolished or transferred by the London Government Act 1963

London CC	Battersea Bermondsey Bethnal Green Camberwell Chelsea Deptford Finsbury Fulham Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith Hampstead Holborn Islington Kensington Lambeth Lewisham Paddington Poplar Shoreditch Southwark St. Marylebone St. Pancras Stepney Stoke Newington Wandsworth Westminster Woolwich	Constituent parts of Greater London

Essex	Barking Chigwell (part) Chingford Dagenham East Ham Hornchurch Ilford Leyton Romford Walthamstow Wanstead and Woodford West Ham

Hertfordshire	Barnet East Barnet

Middlesex, CC	Acton Brentford and Chiswick Ealing Edmonton Enfield Feltham Finchley Friern Barnet Harrow Hayes and Harlington Hendon Heston and Isleworth Hornsey Ruislip-Northwood Southall Southgate Tottenham Twickenham Uxbridge Wembley Willesden Wood Green Yiewsley and West Drayton

Kent	Beckenham Bexley Bromley Chislehurst and Sidcup Crayford Erith Orpington Penge

Surrey	Barnes Beddington and Wallington Carshalton Coulsdon and Purley Croydon Kingston-upon-Thames Malden and Coombe Merton and Morden Mitcham Sutton and Cheam Surbiton Richmond Wimbledon

Transfers	Middlesex to Hertfordshire: Potters Bar Middlesex to Surrey: Staines Sunbury-on-Thames

Coordinates: 51°24′N 0°10′W / 51.400°N 0.167°W / 51.400; -0.167

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