Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Malden (or Old Malden)

Malden (or Old Malden), par. and vil., Surrey, on river Hogs-Mill, near Worcester Park sta. and 3 miles S.E. of Kingston upon Thames, 1294 ac., pop. 525; P.O., T.O., called Worcester Park. Merton College, afterwards removed to Oxford, was founded here in 1264 by Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Malden CP/AP       Surrey AncC
Place names: MALDEN     |     MALDEN OR OLD MALDEN     |     OLD MALDEN     |     WORCESTER PARK
Place: Malden

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