[1] The Local Government Act 1894 reconstituted the area as an urban district.

[3] This was replaced by a new Town Hall on the corner of Queen's Road and Wimbledon Bridge in 1931.

The arms incorporated heraldic elements associated with the history of the borough through the centuries.

A black double-headed eagle refers to the legend that Julius Caesar once made camp on the common, a sheaf of corn is borrowed from the arms of the Cecil family and the two Cornish Choughs above the crown are taken from the arms of Thomas Cromwell.

The new borough took as its motto "Sine Labe Decus" meaning: "Honour without Stain".