This area has its own parade of shops, the Brook recreation ground, three schools, and a youth/community centre along Radstock Way.

South Merstham is home to Connevans Limited, who, in April 2016 became holders of the Royal Warrant, by Appointment to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Supplier and Manufacturer of Audio Equipment.

Its name was recorded in 947 as Mearsætham, which seems to be Anglo-Saxon Mearþ-sǣt-hām = "Homestead near a trap set for martens or weasels".

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 851 states that a Viking army 'went south over the Thames into Surrey; and King Aethelwulf and his son Aethelbald with the West Saxon army fought against them at Aclea, and there made the greatest slaughter of a heathen raiding-army that we have heard tell of up to the present day, and there took the victory.

The use of dynamite was first publicly demonstrated by Alfred Nobel in Price's Grey-lime Stone chalk quarry in July 1868.

[12] The site is now partly covered by the route of the M23 motorway just east of where it passes under the Shepherd's Hill bridge.

The mutilated body of Mary Sophia Money was found in the tunnel and was first thought to be a case of suicide.

On inspection, however, a scarf was found in the victim's throat, and marks on the tunnel wall showed that she had been thrown from a moving train.

[15] After World War II, the Merstham Estate was gradually built over a period spanning to the early 1970s.

Rockshaw Road, on the hilltop above the conservation area of Old Merstham, was developed at the very end of the 19th century, and between the World Wars was home to many nationally notable people, among them senior Army and Navy figures, financiers and politicians.

[16] At the junction of Battlebridge Lane and Nutfield Road is All Saints' church, the original building of which was destroyed in World War II.

[18] The parish of Merstham contains various historic estates including: London Buses run to Croydon, Coulsdon, Purley and Redhill town centre.