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The Avenue, WORCESTER PARK, KT4 7EJ

Woodlands Avenue, Worcester Park.

Large town pub on a corner opposite Worcester Park station. The following is from Wikipedia, on the origins of the name. "Worcester Park takes its name from the 4th Earl of Worcester, who was appointed Keeper of the Great Park in 1606. The area was once part of the Great Park which covered around 1100 acres and surrounded the Little Park which contained Nonsuch Palace of Henry VIII. Both parks were originally used as deer parks. Henry VIII had obtained the land from Sir Richard de Cuddington. During the ownership by Sir Richard de Cuddington, there was a manor house on a site which was later replaced by Worcester House and is now the site of Worcester Close. There was also a church of St. Mary on roughly the same site where the church of St. Mary the Virgin, Cuddington, now stands. The diarist Samuel Pepys visited the district and in his diary commented on Worcester House. In 1809 Worcester Park was acquired by William Taylor. He used a mill on the banks of the Hogsmill to continue the manufacture gunpowder which had been carried out on and off in the area for several centuries. Manufacturing continued until the 1850s when the mill blew up."

This row of shops which is on Central Rd at its junction with Green Lane includes a computer printer ink and cartridge shop a fish and chips shop and a convenience store which advertises its presence with a hoarding for Lycamobile the virtual mobile phone network.

The Manor Drive is a residential road in the outer suburbs of south west London.