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History
Tolworth, in the Domesday Book, was called Taleorde. The Domesday Book (ˈduːmzdeɪ bʊk also known as Domesday, or Book of Winchester) was the record of the great survey Its Domesday assets were held partly by Picot from Richard de Tonebrige and partly by Radulf (Ralph) from the Bishop of Bayeux. Bayeux (bajø is a commune in the Calvados département, in Normandy in northwestern France. It rendered: 2½ hides; also 4 hides with Long Ditton; 1 mill without dues, 8 ploughs, 10½ acres and ½ rod of meadow. The hide was a unit used in assessing land for liability to " Geld " or land tax in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th centuries The hide was a unit used in assessing land for liability to " Geld " or land tax in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th centuries Long Ditton is a village in Surrey, England lying on the boundary with Greater London. A grinding mill is a Unit operation designed to break a solid material into smaller pieces The plough ( American spelling plow; both plaʊ is a Tool used in Farming for initial cultivation of soil in preparation for sowing seed A meadow is a field vegetated primarily by Grass and other non- Woody plants. It rendered £6. The Pound Sterling ( symbol £; ISO code: GBP) subdivided into 100 pence (singular penny) is the Currency [1]
In the early 1970's, a pillar box in Raeburn Avenue was painted lime green for a brief period. A pillar box is a free-standing Post box, in the United Kingdom, where Mail is deposited to be collected by the Royal Mail and forwarded to the However the Post Office decided that the familiar red colour should be restored. A post office is a facility authorized by a Postal system for the posting receipt sorting handling transmission or delivery of Mail. Since then all pillar boxes in the town have remained in their traditional colour.
Description
Architecturally Tolworth consists mainly of low-density 1930s semi-detached properties, and small to medium commercial and retail developments. Semi-Detached (1998 was Therapy? 's last album for A&M Records. There is a concentration of industrial activity in an area bounded on the north by A3 London-to-Portsmouth trunk route, which runs through the area. The A3, known as the Portsmouth Road for much of its length is a Trunk road in Southern England, connecting London to Portsmouth History See also History of Portsmouth There have been settlements in the area since before Roman times mostly being offshoots of Portchester, which The access junction for the A3, linking it on the north with the Broadway and on the south with the A240 Kingston Road toward Epsom, is known as the Toby Jug Roundabout, named after the public house which stood beside it until 2002 when it was demolished. The A240 is a part primary A road in Surrey and Greater London, It connects the A217 with the A3 and beyond to See also Epsom New Hampshire, and Epsom New Zealand. For the chemical compound see Epsom salts. The area is also served by a branch rail line running from London Waterloo to Chessington South two stops to the south, with services run by South West Trains. Chessington South railway station is at the southern part of the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames in South London, and is the terminal station South West Trains ( SWT) is a train operating company operating in the United Kingdom, providing Train services to the south-west of London chiefly An extensive low-lying office development, bounded by the A3 to the north and the rail line to the south, was once occupied by the Ministry of Defence, but has lain vacant for a number of years. The Ministry of Defence ( MoD) is the United Kingdom government department responsible for implementation of government defence policy and is the headquarters
The principal shopping centre - the Broadway - is dominated by Tolworth Tower, an office block designed by the late Richard Seifert and opened in 1964. Richard Seifert ( 25 November 1910 &ndash 26 October 2001) was a British architect best known for designing the Centrepoint The tower is 80. 8 metres high with 22 floors. The ground floor of the building is occupied largely by a single retail unit - currently a Marks and Spencer supermarket - and smaller retail units along the Broadway, the remainder taken up with access to the other floors. Marks & Spencer Group plc (also M&S, Marks and Sparks, and Marks) is a British Retailer with 843 stores in more than 30 The remaining floors of the building was originally occupied by commercial and government offices, but the north wing has recently re-opened as a Travelodge hotel. Travelodge refers to several hotel chains around the world Current operations include United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland and The building appears in the Taschen book of Boring Postcards. Taschen is an Art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany.
The offices and studios of Radio Jackie, a commercial radio station broadcasting to south-west London and north Surrey, can be found on the Broadway. The broadcast mast is sited, with many other antennae, atop Tolworth Tower.
Tolworth is the home of its own community arts centre: The CornerHOUSE (Previously known as the Douglas Centre).
The suburb is served by Tolworth railway station. Tolworth railway station in the London Borough of Kingston upon Thames in South London, is a station on the Chessington branch 19 km (12¼ miles south
Education
- For education in Tolworth see the main Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames article. The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames ( is a borough in south-west London, England.
Sport and recreation
Tolworth has a King George's Field in memorial to King George V, where Corinthian-Casuals (two amateur football teams that have since merged) plays its home games. Corinthian-Casuals FC are a football club based in Tolworth[http //www
Alexandra Park on King Charles Road has a basketball court, as featured on the basketball website Streetball.co.uk
Cutural references
Tolworth is mentioned in the first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus, in the sketch 'Picasso/Cycling Race'. Basketball is a team Sport in which two teams of five active players each try to score points against one another by propelling a ball through a 10 feet (3 m This is a list of all 45 episodes from the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus: Series 1 (Oct Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus or during the final series just Monty Python) is a BBC Sketch comedy
Notable residents
- Alan Wheatley, who is probably best known for his role as The Sheriff of Nottingham in the TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the 1950s, was born in Tolworth. Alan Wheatley (19 April 1907 in Tolworth, Surrey - 30 August 1991 was a former radio announcer who turned to stage and screen acting in the 1930s and was much See also The Sheriff of Nottingham in classic stories The Sheriff of Nottingham was historically the office responsible for enforcing law and order in Nottingham The Adventures of Robin Hood was a popular British Television series comprising 143 half-hour black and white episodes starring Richard Greene He was also the first person killed by a Dalek in an episode of Doctor Who in 1964. A Dalek (, ˈdɑːlεk is a member of a Fictional extraterrestrial race of Mutants from the British science fiction television Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.
- The actor Drew Varley, probably best known as Mungojerrie in Cats, was born here. Drew Varley born April 9th 1971 in Tolworth, Surrey. He is best known for playing Mungojerrie in the filmed production of Cats, as well "Mungojerrie" is a character in T S Eliot 's book "Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" which was made into a Musical by Director David Mallet. Cats is an award-winning musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber based on Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats by T
References
External links
- UK skyscraper list 2001, for Tolworth Tower data
- Radio Jackie
- The CornerHOUSE
- Surbiton.com local community news
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