Worcester Park

[2] The Worcester Park post town, which is coterminous with the KT4 postcode district, covers all of the suburb and also extends into Old Malden.

Other neighbouring localites include Kingston, Sutton, Motspur Park, Lower Morden, Stoneleigh, Tolworth and West Ewell.

Many maps and postal addresses refer to a significant part of North Cheam as Worcester Park, even though they have different postcodes.

The Hamptons is an early 21st-century St James Homes estate of mainly New England (Colonial Revival) style housing in the northeast of Worcester Park.

Dutch style/Dutch Colonial Revival houses were added towards the end of re-engineering, landscaping and construction in the ten years to 2013.

The green space itself is called Mayflower Park which includes a grass amphitheatre for performances and an area of five wetlands as a nature reserve.

This headquarters was erected after the previous building was destroyed by arsonists and still serves the 2nd Cuddington (Rowe) Scout Group.

In the 1950s, the ruins of an ornamental lake with a multi-arched bridge and balustrade were still visible in the woodland at the foot of a hill in Parker's Field.

[9] However, the map of 1871 shows a building labelled "Worcester Park House" to be alongside the lake, to the west of it, on land that was, in the 1950s, overgrown with trees.

Documents from HM Land Registry show that the name of the building for Blakesley School was Worcester Court.

Worcester Park is the site of the enormous launch structure built to pioneer crewed flight in the short story "The Argonauts of the Air" by H. G. Wells, written in 1895.

[10] Central Road (A2043), roughly half a mile in length forms the focal point of Worcester Park.

It hosts a number of shops, stores, banks, estate agents, building societies, solicitors, restaurants, pubs, and coffee bars.

Sutton Council has begun a collaborative project, steered by Councillors and community stakeholders, to spend the money on making improvements to the public realm and supporting the development and growth of businesses in the town centres.

Both Worcester Park and North Cheam are recognised as part of a network of District Centres in London by the Mayor.

The railway line runs from London Waterloo, via Wimbledon and Worcester Park to Epsom, Dorking and Guildford.

Network Rail notified Kingston council of its intention to extend the length of platforms at Worcester Park Station.

St. Mary the Virgin, The Avenue, Worcester Park
The Hamptons, view from part of main parkland belt
Archetypal colonial revival architecture of The Hamptons.