Category Archives: Rural District

Heaton Road

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Built on the Gorringe Park estate, this road is south of Ashbourne Road and east of Bruce Road.

1911 OS map

1911 OS map

From the minutes of the
Croydon Rural District Council
Roads and Buildings Committee
Volume VIII 1902 – 1903
15th May 1902
page 111

2. Deposited Plans. – The Buildings Sub-Committee reported that they had carefully examined al the plans of new streets and buildings deposited since the last meeting, and on their recommendation, it was Resolved:-
(a) That the undermentioned be approved:

No. 2138, Wilson, Jos., 29 tenement houses, Heaton Road, Mitcham

Volume IX 1903 – 1904
23rd April 1903
page 68

No. 2327, Wilson, J., 8 tenement houses, Heaton Road, Mitcham

World War 1 Connections
Stoker 1st Class Albert Henry Barnes

Rifleman Victor Samuel Braund

Private Walter Gilks

Private Robert Handley

Minutes of meetings held by the Croydon Rural District Council are available on request from the Merton Heritage and Local Studies Centre at Morden Library.

1902 Inspector Rabbett’s Report to the Parochial Committee

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From the minutes of the Croydon Rural District Council
Volume 8
1902 to 1903
Mitcham Parochial
29th April 1902
pages 66 and 67

9. INSPECTOR RABBETTS’ REPORT.

—Inspector Rabbets reported that since the last meeting, he had paid 250 visits to premises of which, 27 were primary inspections. Four visits had been made to slaughterhouses, three to dairies and cow-sheds, and four to piggeries.

Nuisances had been abated at 1 to 4, Rosemary Cottages ; ” Nursery Cottage,” and No. 6, Nursery Road ; 17, Fountain Road ; Blume’s Factory ; 6 and 7, Manor Villas ; 3, 4, and 7, Upper Green ; and 1 to 8, Bridge Road.

The drains of 14 houses had been primarily tested, and 12 tests had been applied to drains in course of re-construction. Two patients had been removed to hospital, and two houses had been disinfected.

The nuisance arising from all accumulation of filth and stagnant water at Orchard Pit, Westfields, was being abated, and the wooden pigsty would become disused as soon as the concrete one, now being constructed, was completed.

In the 1904 street directory, Charles G. RABBETTS, sanitary inspector to Croydon rural district council, lived at 5, Harewood Villas, Harewood Road.