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Cheam (/ ˈ tʃ iː m /) is a suburb of London, England, 10.9 miles (17.5 km) southwest of Charing Cross. It is divided into North Cheam, Cheam Village and South Cheam. Cheam Village contains the listed buildings Lumley Chapel and the 16th-century Whitehall. It is adjacent to two large parks, Nonsuch Park and Cheam Park.
2 days ago · Cheam is a parish on the northern side of the Chalk Downs, 3 miles north-east of Epsom, 5½ miles south-west of Croydon. It measures about 3½ miles from north-west to south-east, and is about a mile wide, of a regular form, containing 1,909 acres. It is chiefly agricultural, with nearly 800 acres of permanent pasture.
2 days ago · There is an engraving of this monument in Sandford's Genealogical History of the Kings of England. Lord Lumley . Lord Lumley was engaged by his father-in-law, the Earl of Arundel, in the design of promoting a marriage between Mary Queen of Scots and the Duke of Norfolk, for which he was imprisoned (fn. 12) ; but escaping without farther punishment, sat afterwards upon the trial of that Queen ...
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Cheam like this: CHEAM, a parish in Epsom district, Surrey; on the Epsom railway, under Banstead downs, 5¼ miles WSW of Croydon. It has a station on the railway; and a post office under Sutton, London S. Acres, 1,894. Real property, £6, 348.
Cheam, Sutton A favoured interwar suburb with some impressive older houses and cottages, situated west of Sutton. Cheam – a name that may be a corruption of two words meaning ‘village by the tree stumps’ – was granted to the cathedral priory of Christchurch, Canterbury in 1018 and a church built soon afterwards was dedicated to a former archbishop, St Dunstan.
Jul 26, 2022 · In Sutton you can find an amazing historic gem, a surviving house – built c.1500 – that’s now a brilliant local history museum. Here’s why you should visit Whitehall Historic House…. Under an hour from Waterloo Station, Whitehall Historic sits in Cheam, a village dating back to Saxon times. The earliest surviving records date from ...
The manor house was demolished in 1796. At the 1801 census, the 616 inhabitants were concentrated in three clusters: around Whitehall, around the church and on the High Street. On the north side of the parish, Cheam Common was enclosed by 1810. When Cheam station opened in 1847, it had at first little effect on the character of the village.
