New Malden

Vorlage:Infobox London place New Malden is a suburban town and shopping centre mostly in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated 9.4 miles (15.1 km) south west of Charing Cross.

General

New Malden's centre 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.

Two miles (3 km) to the south is the former village of Old Malden from which it gets its name. Both locations have been swallowed up into the Greater London conurbation.

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. To the west, New Malden merges with Kingston upon Thames.

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.

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 anywhere from 20,000 to 32,000, mostly in New Malden.

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The area's only Cinema, the Odeon at Shannon Corner on the A3 has closed and been replaced by a large retail area including several large stores including a hypermarket.

The most famous past residents are probably the cricketer Alec Stewart, singer-songwriter John Martyn, fiddler Dave Swarbrick of Fairport Convention, sculptor Anthony Caro and actor, comedian and entertainer Max Wall also lived there. It is also home to the infamous Mr. Woo who famously appeared as the 'stickman' in Nike commercials.