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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.
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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.
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A lot of filming for former ITV police drama The Bill took place in Merton, particularly in the districts of Mitcham and Colliers Wood.
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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.
The borough also has three Non-League football clubs Colliers Wood United F. C.
Colliers Wood is an area in south west London, England, in the London Borough of Merton.
Colliers Wood Station is served by the London Underground's Northern Line.
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 United F. C.
is a semi-professional football club founded in Colliers Wood but now based elsewhere.
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.
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.
Colliers Wood is dominated by the " Colliers Wood Tower ".
File: Brown and Root Tower. jpg | The Colliers Wood Tower
Colliers and its
* Colliers journalist Martha Gellhorn and Gavin crossed paths in Paris after its liberation and the two had an affair.
In 1938, AJS became part of a group called Associated Motorcycles, formed by the Colliers as a management company for its various interests.
Colliers and name
( They could not call them AJS, as that name belonged to the Colliers.
Under AMC the AJS badge may have been put on the " bread and butter " Matchless motorcycles, but the Colliers were mindful of the AJS racing heritage, and used the name on some innovative racing machinery.
The coal-mining tradition lives on in the name of the " Colliers Arms " pub on Wigan Road, which has a date plaque of 1700.
Colliers and from
* Information and photos of Colliers Wood from Rise Park Nottingham web site
Colliers from Newcastle would require the bridge to be opened to gain access to the Australian Gas Light Company ( AGL ) gasworks site at Mortlake, ( now redeveloped as Breakfast Point ).
He had numerous commissions from popular magazines in the 1910s and 1920s including Hearst's, Colliers, and Life.
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.
* A Man Named Spade and Other Stories ( 1944 ) ( contains three Sam Spade stories from The American Magazine and Colliers -- listed above )
* Nightmare Town ( 1999 ) ( contains three Sam Spade stories from The American Magazine and Colliers -- listed above )
* Audio from a talk entitled The Kingswood Colliers & the Cock Rd.
The series titled " The American Newspaper " was researched from September 23, 1909 till late June 1910 and published in Colliers magazine from January to June, 1911.
Over the next four years, the company built a navigation from Chelmsford to meet the tidal estuary of the River Blackwater in Colliers Reach at the place that's today called Heybridge Basin ( after the canal basin there ).
Then it followed the course of the River Blackwater to Heybridge, and from there via a canal to the sea lock at Colliers Reach.
Sutton Garage also partly took control of route 200 at a yard in Colliers Wood ( AA ) in 1989, after Cityrama withdrew from their contract.
The line of the road runs south west from London Bridge, closely followed by the Northern Line through Clapham and Tooting up to Colliers Wood and Merton.
Ashington also has a reserve side, known as the Ashington Colliers, which plays in the Northern Football Alliance Premier Division, a ladies side, nicknamed the Angels, which plays in the Northumberland County Women's Football League and many junior sides, running from Under 19s down to Under 7s.
It is on National Cycle Route 24, otherwise known as the Colliers Way which currently runs from Dundas Aqueduct to Frome via Radstock, although it is intended to provide a continuous cycle route to Southampton and Portsmouth.
There is a wharf across from the Colliers, and marine centre, where the fishermen sell lobsters and fish.
Colliers from Newcastle brought coal to the gasworks site at Mortlake.
Colliers and east
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.
Colliers and High
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.
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