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Cheam is a large suburban village close to Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton, England. It is divided into two main areas: North Cheam and Cheam Village. North Cheam includes more retail shops and supermarkets, whilst Cheam Village and the south of Cheam are more residential. , Sutton is the principal town in the London Borough of Sutton. ... The London Borough of Sutton is a London borough in outer southwest London. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Packaged food aisles in a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. ...

The area is served by Cheam railway station. In 1844 Cheam railway station (now in the London Borough of Sutton) was on the planned route for the London to Portsmouth atmospheric railway. ...

History

The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Wallington hundred. For other uses, see Anglo-Saxon. ... Wallington was an ancient hundred in the north east of the county of Surrey, England. ... A hundred is an administrative division, frequently used in Europe and New England, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller geographical units. ...

Cheam's roots can be dated back as far as 1018, when Chertsey Abbey owned the area. In the Domesday Book, the Bishop was holding Cheam to cater for the monks. Chertsey Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey. ... A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ...

Cheam appears in Domesday Book as Ceiham. It was held by Archibishop Lanfranc of Canterbury. Its Domesday assets were: 4 hides; 1 church, 17 ploughs, 1 acre of meadow, woodland worth 25 hogs. It rendered £14.^[1] A line drawing entitled Domesday Book from Andrew Williamss Historic Byways and Highways of Old England. ... Canterbury is a cathedral city in east Kent in South East England and is the seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Primate of All England, head of the Church of England and of the worldwide Anglican Communion. ... The hide was a variable unit of land area used in medieval England, defined according to its arable yield and taxable potential rather than its exact dimensions. ... The traditional way: a German farmer works the land with horses and plough. ... A meadow is a habitat of rolling or flat terrain where grasses predominate. ... Limber Pine woodland, Toiyabe Range, central Nevada Biologically, a woodland is a treed area differentiated from a forest. ... Hog is a domestic or feral adult swine. ...

In the Middle Ages, Cheam was known for its potteries, and recent excavations have been discovered by archaeologists. In 1538, part of Cheam was handed over to Henry VIII. The same year, Henry began work on Nonsuch Palace, which he decorated fantastically. This was later sold and demolished. In 1801, the time of the first census, Cheam had a population of 616. The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times, beginning with the Renaissance. ... Henry VIII redirects here. ... Nonsuch Palace was a Tudor royal palace that was built by Henry VIII in Surrey, on the location of Cuddington, near Epsom (the church and village of Cuddington were destroyed to create the plot for the palace). ...

Cheam was the original home of Cheam School which was formed in Whitehall in 1645 and later occupied Tabor Court from 1719 until 1934 when the school moved to Berkshire. Prince Philip attended the school in Cheam in the years immediately preceding its move. Cheam School is a Preparatory school in Headley, Berkshire, England. ... HRH The Duke of Edinburgh His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (Philip Mountbatten), styled HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (born June 10, 1921), is the consort of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. ...

Places of Interest

Lumley Chapel

Situated next to St Dunstan's church, it is the oldest standing building in the London Borough of Sutton. Dunstan is also a village in Northumberland, and a lake in New Zealand Dunstan shoeing the Devils hoof, as illustrated by George Cruikshank Dunstan (909 - May 19, 988) was an Archbishop of Canterbury (961 - 980) who was later canonized as a saint. ...

Whitehall

Whitehall is a timber framed and weatherboarded house in the centre of Cheam Village. It was originally built in about 1500 as a wattle and daub yeoman farmer's house but has been much extended. The external weatherboarded appearance dates from the 18th century. In the garden there is a medieval well which served an earlier building on the site. Red brick timberframe building in Poznań, Poland Timber framing is the description of how a house is built using mortise and tenon joinery. ... In British usage, weatherboarding is the cladding or ‘siding’ of a house consisting of long thin boards that overlap one another horizontally on the outside of the wall. ... Categories: Stub | Construction ... Yeoman is a word with several modern and historical meanings. ... Village pump redirects here, for information on Wikipedia project-related discussions, see Wikipedia:Village pump. ...

The building is open to the public on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 2-5pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday 2-5 pm. There is an admission charge, and an audio guide. There is a programme of events and changing exhibitions in the house, which also has displays about the history of the house and its inhabitants, nearby Cheam School, and Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace.

Nonsuch Mansion

A Gothic revival mansion within Nonsuch Park built in 1802-6. The service wing is occasionally open to the public. Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ...

The Old Rectory

A massive timber framed Tudor house, occasionally open to the public.

Parks and Gardens

Today Cheam is mainly built up, but still retains Nonsuch Park, also home to a chicken pen, drinking fountain, ice cream shop, and car park. Cheam Park backs onto Nonsuch Park, with many facilities such as tennis courts, crazy golf, football pitches and a children's playground. Map sources for Nonsuch Park at grid reference TQ231637 Nonsuch Park is the remnant of open space surrounding the former Nonsuch Palace, and is a public park between Stoneleigh, North Cheam, Cheam, and Ewell. ... Miniature golf, also known as mini-golf, crazy golf or Putt-Putt, is a game modelled after the sport of golf. ...

Schools

There are a number of schools in Cheam, most notably Nonsuch High School, a grammar school for girls and Cheam High School, a mixed comprehensive. There are also a number of primary schools in the area such as Cheam Fields Primary, Cheam Park Farm Nursery and Infants School, Cheam Park Farm Juniors, Nonsuch Primary and St. Dunstans Primary. Nonsuch High School is a grammar school located in Cheam, Surrey, England, standing in 22 acres of beautiful grounds on the edge of Nonsuch Park. ... A grammar school is a school that may, depending on regional usage as exemplified below, provide either secondary education or, a much less common usage, primary education (also known as elementary). Grammar schools trace their origins back to medieval Europe, as schools in which university preparatory subjects, such as Latin...

Cultural references

In most seasons of the comedy series Hancock's Half Hour, Tony Hancock lived in the fictional road Railway Cuttings, in fictional East Cheam. Hancocks Half Hour was a famous BBC radio comedy series of the 1950s starring Tony Hancock. ... Biography published in 1978 (1983 paperback reprint shown) Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 24 June 1968) was a major figure in British television and radio comedy in the 1950s and 1960s, known as Tony Hancock. ...

Notable people

• Harry Secombe once lived in Cheam.
• David Bellamy attended Cheam Fields Primary School
• Matt Waller currently lives in Cheam.

Sir Harry Donald Secombe, CBE (8 September 1921–11 April 2001) was a Welsh entertainer with a noted fine tenor singing voice and a talent for comedy. ... David Bellamy Professor David J. Bellamy OBE (born 18 January 1933) is an English botanist, author, broadcaster and environmental campaigner. ...

Nearby places

• Belmont
• Ewell
• Morden
• Sutton
• Worcester Park
• Stoneleigh

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References

External links

• Open Directory Project - Cheam directory category
• Hancock's Legacy David McKie in The Guardian, November 30, 2006.
• Cheam Rangers [1]