St Helier, London

St Helier
Shops at Green Lane, St Helier
St Helier  St Helier shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ265664
London borough	Merton
	Sutton
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MORDEN
Postcode district	SM4
Post town	CARSHALTON
Postcode district	SM5
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Mitcham and Morden
	Carshalton and Wallington
London Assembly	Merton and Wandsworth
	Croydon and Sutton
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Coordinates: 51°22′57″N 0°11′01″W / 51.38256°N 0.18361°W / 51.38256; -0.18361

St. Helier (/səntˈhɛlɪə/^[1]) is a residential cottage estate in the London boroughs of Merton and Sutton. The portion of the estate north of Green Lane and Bishopsford Road is in Merton, the rest is in Sutton.

History

The estate was built between 1928 and 1936 by the London County Council for the re-housing of people from decaying inner London areas. Landscaping on the large-scale town planning scheme was by landscape architect Edward Prentice Mawson.

Its development was spurred by the opening of Morden Underground station in 1926, and the Wimbledon to Sutton railway line in 1930, with a station at St Helier. These services provided rapid links into central London for the residents.

The estate was named in honour of Lady St. Helier, who was an LCC Alderman from 1910 to 1927. It was the second largest (after the Becontree-Dagenham estate) of a series of 'out-county' cottage estates and was based on the Garden City ideas of Ebenezer Howard. The area had previously consisted largely of lavender fields, the last remnants of the famous Mitcham lavender industry.

In remembrance of the area's historic ownership by Westminster Abbey, the roads are named in alphabetical order after Monasteries and Abbeys starting in the north-west with Aberconway Road and ending with Woburn Road in the south-east.

The imposing St. Helier Hospital was opened in 1938. John Major, UK Prime Minister from 1990 to 1997, was born there.

St Helier hospital, frontage

The estate's Bishop Andrewes Church, in Wigmore Road, was designed by the architect Geddes Hyslop in 1933.^[2]

Today

Today ownership of housing on the estate is split between private and local authority, with many people taking advantage of the right to buy scheme since the 1970s. The hospital still exerts an imposing presence on the estate, both economically and physically. Most of the buildings are original and many are still being used for their original purposes. There has been a little amount of infilling around the outskirts, and the estate now merges into the suburbs of Sutton, Carshalton and Morden.

The area is served by London Bus routes 80, 151, 154, 157, 164, 280, S1, S4, N44.

Nearest places

• Rose Hill
• Morden
• Carshalton
• Mitcham
• Sutton
• Wallington
• Hackbridge

References

1. ↑ "Saint Helier". Collins Dictionary. n.d. Retrieved 23 September 2014. 
2. ↑ (Nikolaus Pevsner), Surrey ("Buildings of England") revised by Ian Nairn and Bridget Cherry), 1971:446

External links

• History of St.Helier
• St.Helier Hospital
• St.George's Church, St.Helier
• St. Peter's and Bishop Andrewes, St Helier
• London City Mission : St Helier Christian Centre
• www.StHelierEstate.co.uk

London Borough of Merton Districts Bushey Mead Cannon Hill Colliers Wood Copse Hill Cottenham Park Crooked Billet Lower Morden Merton Merton Abbey Merton Park Mitcham Morden Morden Park Motspur Park New Malden Norbury Pollards Hill Raynes Park St Helier South Wimbledon Streatham Vale Summerstown West Barnes Wimbledon Wimbledon Park Attractions All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club Merton Abbey Mills Merton Priory Museum of Wimbledon New Wimbledon Theatre Southside House Wandle Industrial Museum Wandle Trail Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum Wimbledon Stadium Wimbledon Theatre Wimbledon Windmill Parks and open spaces Cannizaro Park Cannon Hill Common Lavender Park Mitcham Common Morden Hall Park Ravensbury Park Wimbledon Common Wimbledon Park Constituencies Mitcham and Morden Wimbledon Tube, rail stations and tram stops Belgrave Walk Colliers Wood Dundonald Road Haydons Road Merton Park Mitcham Mitcham Eastfields Mitcham Junction Morden Morden South Morden Road Motspur Park Phipps Bridge Raynes Park St Helier South Merton South Wimbledon Tooting Wimbledon Wimbledon Chase Wimbledon Park Other topics Council Grade I and II* listed buildings Parks and open spaces People Public art Schools

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