Colliers Wood
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Colliers Wood is an area in south London, England, in the London Borough of Merton. Colliers Wood station is on the London Underground Northern Line between South Wimbledon and Tooting Broadway stations.
Colliers Wood takes its name from a wood that stood to the east of Colliers Wood Road, approximately where Warren, Marlborough and Birdhurst Roads are now. This wood remained at least until the 1870s.
The Savacentre in Colliers Wood is one of the largest supermarkets in Europe. The market and heritage centre at Merton Abbey Mills is nearby.
The 'Colliers Wood Tower' (also known as 'The Vortex', 'The Tower', and 'Brown & Root Tower'), was voted the ugliest building in London in a 2006 BBC poll [1] and one of the 12 ugliest in the UK in a 2005 Channel 4 poll for its programme Demolition [2].
The UK's ugliest building has had many names since construction and was originally called The Lyon Tower as it was the headquarters of Ronald Lyon Holdings property empire.[3]. When it was being built it reached the third storey before an error in construction was discovered and it was demolished - they had to start building again.
[edit] History
For a history of this part of the borough, see Merton.
