Qualla: Carshalton https://qualla.com/carshalton en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/carshalton-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Carshalton https://qualla.com/carshalton Carshalton: Introduction https://qualla.com/carshalton/ Photo credit G.Rogers (Rodge500), CC BY-SA 2.5. Two ponds sit in the middle of the village, fed by the chalk springs that gave Carshalton its name and its purpose. The River Wandle rises here, in the cup of land below All Saints Church, and the water that surfaces in the high street is the same water that runs north through the borough on its way to the Thames. The A232 thunders past the ponds, and yet you can stand on the wall above them and feel that you are not in London at all but in a slightly older country, where the village happens to be visited by buses.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/carshalton-wp/gcpu-carshalton-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carshalton: Aultone, Domesday https://qualla.com/carshalton/ Photo credit G.Rogers (Rodge500), CC BY-SA 2.5. When the Domesday surveyors wrote the village down in 1086 they called it Aultone, and noted that Geoffrey de Mandeville held three and a half hides, a church, ten ploughs, a mill, twenty-two acres of meadow and woodland sufficient for two hogs. Before the Conquest, five Saxon fr...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/carshalton-wp/gcpu-carshalton-aultone-domesday.mp3 0:06 2 full Carshalton: The Lavender Capital https://qualla.com/carshalton/ Photo credit Kemal ATLI, CC BY-SA 2.0. From the eighteenth century until the early twentieth, the chalky free-draining soil of the North Downs made this corner of Surrey the centre of the world's lavender production. The Daily News reported in 1914 that blue fields stretched across Mitcham, Croydon, Wallington, Banste...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/carshalton-wp/gcpu-carshalton-the-lavender-capital.mp3 0:06 3 full Carshalton: The Water Tower and the Bagnio https://qualla.com/carshalton/ Photo credit socarra from London, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the grounds of what is now St Philomena's School stands one of the strangest buildings in south London: a Grade II* listed Water Tower built in the early eighteenth century to pump water to Carshalton House. It is also an orangery, a saloon, and a bathroom. The bathroom — the ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/carshalton-wp/gcpu-carshalton-the-water-tower-and-the-bagnio.mp3 0:06 4 full Carshalton: Honeywood and the Wandle https://qualla.com/carshalton/ Photo credit Lukemn from London, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the western edge of Carshalton Ponds stands Honeywood, a Grade II listed house whose seventeenth-century flint-and-chalk chequer fabric is hidden behind an Edwardian wing added between 1896 and 1903 by a London merchant named John Pattinson Kirk. It is now the Sutton borough m...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/carshalton-wp/gcpu-carshalton-honeywood-and-the-wandle.mp3 0:06 5 full Carshalton: The Names a Village Keeps https://qualla.com/carshalton/ Photo credit Public domain. Carshalton produced its share of people who outgrew it. John Major, who became Conservative Prime Minister in 1990, spent part of his upbringing here. Cliff Richard attended Stanley Park Junior School. The artist Pauline Boty, one of the founders of British Pop Art, came from the...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/p/u/carshalton-wp/gcpu-carshalton-the-names-a-village-keeps.mp3 0:06 6 full Carshalton: Bank Holiday Carshalton https://qualla.com/carshalton/ Photo credit Charlotte Gilhooly from London, England, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the August bank holiday Monday, Carshalton Park fills with 10,000 people for the Environmental Fair: a hundred stalls, three music stages, an open-air amphitheatre in what used to be the Hog Pit Pond, real ale and farmers' produce and folk and rock and poetry. Around Guy Fawke...

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