New Malden

Template:Infobox London place New Malden is a leafy suburban town and shopping centre partly in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and partly in the London Borough of Merton, and is situated 9.4 miles (15.1 km) south west of Charing Cross.

Its centre was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with two- and three-bedroom terraced houses. Further out are larger detached and semi-detached houses from the 1930s.

Two miles (3 km) to the south is the former village of Old Malden from which it gets its name. Both locations have been swallowed up into the Greater London conurbation.

New Malden is bounded to the north by the affluent Coombe Hill and to the south and east by Raynes Park, Worcester Park and Tolworth. New Malden includes Motspur Park. To the west, New Malden merges with Kingston upon Thames.

The busy A3 trunk road runs through part of New Malden. A minor tributary of the River Thames, Beverley Brook, flows through the east of the town.

New Malden has probably the largest expatriate community of South Koreans in Britain. According to different sources, the Korean population in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is anywhere from 3,500 to 20,000, mostly in New Malden.

New Malden has its own youth theatre, the Green Theatre Company, established in 1986 in a converted cricket pavilion at Barton Green. [1]

The most famous past resident is probably the actor, comedian and entertainer Max Wall.

Nearby Places

To the west:
Kingston upon Thames, Norbiton.
To the south:
Tolworth, Surbiton, Malden Manor, Old Malden
To the east:
Raynes Park, Worcester Park
To the north:
Coombe, Wimbledon Common, Richmond Park