A terrace of 28 houses that was south of Palestine Grove and north of the Merton Abbey Iron Works, to the west off of Church Road. The terrace didn’t have its own road.
1921 aerial view looking north
Occupants in 1925:
- Henry Greening
- William Wadmore
- Clarence Weston
- Frederick Harrington
- Frederick Hamilton
- William Richard Blake
- William Rowland
- Alfred Kent
- Hugh Thomas Church
- Horace Furlonger
- William Henry Taylor
- Henry James Sedgwick
- Alfred Harwood
- William John Dewar
- Charles Marshall
- William Edgington
- Frederick Willmott
- Sidney Poulton
- George Catlin
- Henry Sharp
- Frederick Eaton
- William Faulkner
- Albert Ernest Hockley
- James Varnham
- Mrs Sparkes
- Thomas Brown
- Frederick Edwards
- Henry Poulton
World War 1 Connections
From the Surrey Recruitment Registers:
W ROWLAND of 7 Phipps Terrace, Church Road, aged 31 Years 11 Months, Carpenter. Volunteered with the Derby Scheme on 9 December 1915 to the Royal Engineers.
Maps are reproduced with the permission of the National Library of Scotland.
Mitcham History Notes 
William Rowland, of 7 Phipps Terrace, was my grandfather. He was married to Mary (née Wilkinson) from Ferns, Co.Wexford, Ireland. They had 6 children, Winifred, Olive, Rose (my mother), Violet, her twin who died in infancy, Eileen and William.
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