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Colliers Wood is an area in south west London, England, in the London Borough of Merton.
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The road then descended the other side of the hill towards the town centre passing west of the Underground station and crossing the north corner of Morden Hall Park heading in the direction of Colliers Wood and Tooting.
Other smaller centres include Raynes Park, Colliers Wood, South Wimbledon, Wimbledon Park and Pollards Hill.
A lot of filming for former ITV police drama The Bill took place in Merton, particularly in the districts of Mitcham and Colliers Wood.
The wards containing Mitcham town centre and the St Helier Estate are ranked highest for crime within Merton with the wards containing the smaller commercial centres of Colliers Wood and South Wimbledon also featuring high in the ranking.
Colliers Wood is home to three parks: a recreation ground, the National Trust-owned Wandle Park, which covers an area of approximately, and the more informal Wandle Meadow Nature Park.
Colliers Wood shares its postcode district with Wimbledon, with postcode lookups returning this suburb name and some organisations insisting on its use.
In 2006, local resident and ex-resident of Slough Keith Spears, having seen the BBC TV series Making Slough Happy, started the " Making Colliers Wood Happy!
In July 2010 the first Barclays Cycle Superhighway opened, with a continuous bicycle lane known as CS7 linking Colliers Wood with Southwark Bridge in the centre of London, although it was originally intended to continue to South Wimbledon.
Colliers Wood takes its name from a wood that stood to the east of Colliers Wood High Street, approximately where Warren, Marlborough and Birdhurst Roads are now.
The world's first public railway, the Surrey Iron Railway, passed through Colliers Wood on its route from Croydon to Wandsworth, between 1803 and 1846.
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* Bewley Street Footbridge, in Colliers Wood, London, which is blocked off at one end due to a dispute over the cost of building an access ramp.
Wimbledon is to the north, Morden to the south, Colliers Wood is to the east and to the west are Merton Park and Wimbledon Chase.
A continuation of this line, which previously linked Frome to Radstock, is now the route of National Cycle Route 24, otherwise known as the Colliers Way.
Wrexham's current training ground is the purpose-built Colliers Park, which is situated on Chester Road, Gresford, approximately 2 miles from the Racecourse, close to the site of the old Gresford Colliery.
Colliers Park is now owned by Glyndwr University as part of their purchase of the Racecourse Ground assets.
The original road is now a bridleway, called Colliers Lane ( in original local dialect Coiyers Lane ); the current road having been constructed in 1824.
Colliers is a beautiful town, with rolling hills, rivers and a pituresque harbour that is often home to icebergs.
The line is now the route of National Cycle Route 24, otherwise known as the Colliers ' Way, a national cycle route which passes many landmarks associated with the coal field ; other local roads and footpaths follow the tramways developed during the coal mining years.
The burgers of the borough of Maldon refused to allow the canal to pass through their borough, so the company routed it just outside the borough boundary, which is why it ended up at Colliers Reach, rather than at Maldon.
He has been married twice ; his current wife is Rosemary Bradford ( a partner in Colliers International Wellington, a property broking company ).
Currently, approximately of the former Naval Station is being marketed to the public by the Los Angeles group of Colliers International, on behalf of the Navy's Base Realignment and Closure Program Management Office, as a public auction to commence in the near future.
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Nailsea's shopping area includes Somerset Square, Crown Glass Place, Colliers Walk, and a high street.
The largest employers in the area were the Education Department of Birmingham City Council, Colliers Peugeot dealers and Cincinnati Machine ( UK ) Ltd. all of which employed 200 people between them.
The concentration of heavy industry in this area resulted in the stretch of the river running between Windsor Avenue and Colliers Wood High Street being diverted during the 18th century.
It was located in Merton, Surrey, England ( now the Colliers Wood area in the London Borough of Merton ) at the point where the Roman Stane Street crossed the River Wandle.
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