New Malden, KT3

New Malden is a town and shopping centre in the south-western London suburbs, mostly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated 9.4 miles (15.1 km) from Charing Cross.

New Malden was established entirely as a result of the arrival of the railway when the “Coombe for Malden” station was opened on 1 December 1846. However, when Queen Victoria visited distinguished residents in the Coombe Hill area, the royal train always continued to Norbiton station where the platform was at ground level. New Malden was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with two- and three-bedroom terraced houses. Further out are larger detached and semi-detached houses from the 1930s. The recent settlement grew up around the station on the main line from Waterloo. The road up the hill to Coombe, Traps Lane, is thought to derive from a farm owned by a Mrs Trap.

Two miles (3km) to the south is the former village of Old Malden from which it gets its name, whose origins go back to Anglo-Saxon times. The name being saxon for Mael + duna = the cross on the hill.

New Malden is bounded to the north by the affluent Coombe Hill and to the south and east by Raynes Park, Worcester Park and Tolworth. New Malden includes Motspur Park, home to the training ground of Fulham Football Club.

The busy A3 trunk road runs through part of New Malden. A minor tributary of the River Thames, Beverley Brook, flows through the east of the town, while its western boundary is along the Hogsmill, another Thames tributary.

Under the District Councils Act 1895, The Maldens & Coombe Urban District Council was created (the plural relating to Old Malden and New Malden). In 1936 Malden and Coombe was granted full Borough status, with its own Mayor, and had the rare distinction of a civic mace bearing the royal insignia of King Edward VIII. In 1965, the London Government Act 1963 came into force merging the boroughs of Malden & Coombe and Surbiton with Kingston-upon-Thames to form the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames.

New Malden has the largest expatriate community of South Koreans in Europe. According to different sources, the Korean population in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is around 20,000, mostly residing in New Malden. The area has around 15 Korean cafes and restaurants.

Samsung Electronics' UK division used to be based in New Malden but has now relocated its European headquarters to nearby Chertsey.

New Malden has its own youth theatre, the Green Theatre Company, established in 1986 in a converted cricket pavilion at Barton Green. [1]

The area's last Cinema, the Odeon at Shannon Corner on the A3 has closed and been replaced by a large retail area including several large stores. The other Cinema in the High Street burnt down.

Nearby places :
Kingston upon Thames, Norbiton
Tolworth, Surbiton, Worcester Park, Old Malden
Raynes Park, Motspur Park
Coombe, Wimbledon, Richmond Park

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