Woodcote Green Residents Association
ABOUT WGRA
WGRA covers the area around Woodcote Green
Committee members meet around four times a year with an Annual General Meeting held in July to elect members. Minutes of meetings on the Committee page will give you an idea of the range of topics discussed and give you some insight into the influence on housing development, traffic and cleanliness that the resident's association can have through our good relationship with local Councillors.
Contact us to learn more and get involved.
ABOUT THE AREA
ORIGINS
The name "Wallington" derives from the Anglo Saxon "Waletone", meaning "village of the Britons"
Wallington appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 where two mill ponds were recorded
DEVELOPMENT
What was then called "Carshalton" railway station was opened in 1847 in the open fields to the south of Wallington because the owner of Carshalton Park objected to it being built near to Carshalton village. This acted as a spur to the development of the area and in the 1860s Nathaniel Bridges created a prestigious housing estate of gothic revival villas
INCORPORATION
The Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington was incorporated in 1936 from the former Beddington and Wallington Urban District.
A town hall and public library were built in Wallington town centre in the 1930s, as was the fire station in Belmont Road
PROSPERITY
Wallington was an important centre for the production of lavender oil until about the time of the First World War.
Lavender and herb growing were very prominent in the area in Victorian times and much earlier, and extensive fields of lavender were to be seen in the Carshalton, Beddington and Wallington areas. Lavender growing was a very prosperous part of the local agriculture hereabouts in the 19th and early 20th centuries