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Rose Hill, SUTTON, SM1 3HH

Multi Sport Venue in Sutton http://www.thesportsvillage.org.uk/

The train is formed of two 4-car class 319 "Thameslink" units and is on a service from Wimbledon to Luton (via Sutton and Blackfriars).

Carved stone post by the B2230 (was A217), Rose Hill, in parish of SUTTON AND CHEAM (SUTTON District), South of electricity pylon, by bus stop and shelter, set in own fenced area near to path, on North side of road. Surrey limestone pillar, erected by the Surrey & Sussex turnpike trust in the 19th century. Inscription reads:- : Royal / Exchange / XI / Miles / Whitehall / X Miles : Grade II Listed by Historic England, List Entry Number: 1474983 https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1474983 Milestone Society National ID: SY_LQR10

The inscription in the stone tablet in the centre of the main façade of the block of flats reads: S & C 1950 I am guessing therefore that these flats were originally built by the former Sutton & Cheam Council.

Typical but attractive 1920s terraced houses with arched entranceways.

This view looks from the footbridge across Reigate Avenue (A217) and Rosehill Park West towards Greenshaw Wood and St Helier Hospital in the distance. Greenshaw Wood lies within the public park known as Rosehill Park East. A strip of oak woodland formerly ran in a crescent from the site of the present St Helier Hospital south to a larger tract of woodland depicted on the First Edition Ordnance Survey Map as Been Hill. This strip of woodland was felled before 1815 and Been Hill became the new suburb of Benhilton. Greenshaw Wood is all that remains of these former ancient woods showing up with exactly the same boundaries as today on the Ordnance survey Map of 1866. St Helier Hospital can be seen from large swathes of South London, being as it is on a hilltop and coloured white - see http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2981083 also http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3551975 and http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1884008

This is Rosehill Park East alongside Rose Hill which is here on the right. Greenshaw Wood is up the hill to the left, just out of the picture.

The Wimbledon to Sutton line was first proposed in the early 1880s with the intention of stimulating house building across the clay pastures between the two towns, which up until then had remained largely untouched. Lack of enthusiasm or downright opposition from established railway companies, particularly the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, prevented any progress until after the First World War. The LBSCR went to such lengths to prove there was no need for a railway north of Sutton that when a Parliamentary committee in 1910 was considering a Bill for the line they produced a lady who explained that she had once tried to hail a bus which used to run between Wimbledon and Sutton. The conductor was so surprised that he failed to signal to the driver to stop, and the driver turned round to see what the lady was waving at. The line finally opened in 1930, nearly 50 years after it was first proposed. The Wimbledon to Sutton line was designed for electric trains, with many inclines and sharp curves, although it hardly justified the drivers' nickname for it: "Wall of Death". Sutton Common, along with other stations on the line has a single central platform. Steps lead down from the road to the platform. The colourful flowers add a touch of brightness.

The Wimbledon to Sutton line was first proposed in the early 1880s with the intention of stimulating house building across the clay pastures between the two towns, which up until then had remained largely untouched. Lack of enthusiasm or downright opposition from established railway companies, particularly the London, Brighton & South Coast Railway, prevented any progress until after the First World War. The LBSCR went to such lengths to prove there was no need for a railway north of Sutton that when a Parliamentary committee in 1910 was considering a Bill for the line they produced a lady who explained that she had once tried to hail a bus which used to run between Wimbledon and Sutton. The conductor was so surprised that he failed to signal to the driver to stop, and the driver turned round to see what the lady was waving at. The line finally opened in 1930, nearly 50 years after it was first proposed. The Wimbledon to Sutton line was designed for electric trains, with many inclines and sharp curves, although it hardly justified the drivers' nickname for it: "Wall of Death". Sutton Common, along with other stations on the line has a single central platform.