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Wimbledon in Surrey County England History and GeographyWIMBLEDON, a parish in the western division of the hundred of BRIXTON, county of SURREY, 9 miles (S.W.) from London, containing 2195 inhabitants. The name of this place, anciently written Wymbandune, Wymbaldon, and Wymbldon, is supposed to have been derived from one of its early proprietors. The principal feature in the parish is Wimbledon Park, which comprises about twelve thousand acres, and contains a sheet of water covering a space of thirty acres. The common is surrounded by seats of the nobility and gentry, and exhibits, at the south-west angle, a circular encampment with a single ditch, including a surface of seven acres; the trench is very deep and perfect. It is supposed to mark the site of a battle, fought in 568, between Ceawlin, King of the West Saxons, and Ethelbert, King of Kent. At the north-east angle of the common is the village, consisting of one street, containing many respectable houses; and in detached situations are numerous handsome scats and pleasant villas. In the immediate vicinity of Wimbledon is a well, the water of which has never been known to freeze. The mills of the English Copper Company are in this parish: there are also calico-printing works, a manufactory for Japan were, and a corn-mill. A pleasure fair is held on the first Monday after Easter, and the two following days. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £35. 2. 11., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Worcester. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, and situated near the entrance of the village, was erected in 1787, on the site of a former, which had fallen to decay. It is a neat edifice, in the Grecian style of architecture: in the east window are some remains of painted glass, representing the arms of the families of Leeds, Salisbury, Dorset, &c.; and in the churchyard, which is watched by a society formed for that purpose upwards of eight years ago, are several handsome mausoleums. There are places of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. A National school, in which one hundred and twenty boys and fifty girls are instructed, is supported by voluntary contributions; the school-house, with a garden and field annexed, were given by John, Earl Spencer, in 1773. In 1650, Dorothy Cecil, daughter of Edward, Lord Viscount Wimbledon, gave a rent-charge of £22. 2. 6., for teaching poor children, and keeping her father's tomb in repair. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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