Sutton and Cheam was a local government district in northeast

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from 1882 to 1965.

History

Sutton Local Government District was formed on 20 December 1882, when the (civil) parish of

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adopted the

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. Sutton

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was formed to govern the area. The

Local Government Act 1894 The Local Government Act 1894 ( 56 & 57 Vict. c. 73) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that reformed local government in England and Wales outside the County of London. The act followed the reforms carried out at county leve ...

reconstituted the district as Sutton Urban District and an urban district council replaced the local board. In 1928 the Urban District grew to take in the westerly

strip parish A strip parish is a parish with a narrow, elongated shape, formed typically during the Anglo-Saxon and early medieval period. The shape is influenced by landscape and political and economic factors. Evidence of such parishes can be found throughout ...

Cheam Cheam () is a suburb of London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It is divided into North Cheam, Cheam Village and South Cheam. Cheam Village contains the listed buildings Lumley Chapel and the 16th-century Whitehall. It is adjacent to t ...

(which was 4% larger) from Epsom Rural District and was thus renamed Sutton and Cheam Urban District.Frederic A Youngs Jr., ''A Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England'', Vol I: Southern England, London, 1979 Both occupy and are centred on

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s next to the

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. The new body took in an extra and 1840 people from 1933 when a

county review order The Local Government Act 1929 ( 19 & 20 Geo. 5. c. 17) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that made changes to the Poor Law and local government in England and Wales. The act abolished the system of poor law unions in England ...

abolished Epsom Rural District, specifically drawing on parts of Banstead and Cuddington civil parishes. At the same time about 212 versus 235 people's homes moved council by an imposed land exchange with Carshalton Urban District, seeing a net gain of 8 acres; three simultaneous changes moved no homes but saw a net gain of 16 acres. The council successfully petitioned for a charter of incorporation so it became a

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in 1934. Charter Day was celebrated on 12 September 1934 with local festivities, including a quarter peal on the bells of All Saints,

Benhilton Benhilton is a suburban parish in north Sutton, London, Sutton, Greater London. It is dominated by All Saints Church, Benhilton, All Saints Church, which is a Grade II* listed building designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon in a Gothic Revival style ...

. The borough was granted a

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on incorporation. The shield had six emblems suggestive of the pan-medieval ecclesiastical landowners. The crosses came from the arms of the

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, the manor of Cheam having been granted to Christchurch, Canterbury in 1018. The keys of

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came from the arms of

Chertsey Abbey Chertsey Abbey, dedicated to St Peter, was a Benedictine monastery located at Chertsey in the English county of Surrey. It was founded in 666 AD by Saint Erkenwald who was the first abbot, and from 675 AD the Bishop of London. At the same ti ...

who held Sutton at the time of the

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. The crest above the shield was a popinjay (parrot) from the arms of the Lumley family. The motto was that of

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, rector of Cheam from 1624 - 1662 and was

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in the last 10 years of his life.C W Scott-Giles, ''Civic Heraldry of England and Wales'', 2nd edition, London, 1953 In 1965, under the

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, the borough was abolished and its land transferred to

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merging with

Carshalton Urban District Carshalton was a local government district in north east Surrey from 1883 to 1965 around the town of Carshalton. The parish of Carshalton adopted the Local Government Act 1858 in 1883 and a local board was formed to govern the town. The Local Go ...

and the

Municipal Borough of Beddington and Wallington Beddington and Wallington was, from 1915 to 1965, a local government district in north east Surrey, England. It formed part of the London suburbs, lying within the Metropolitan Police District and the London Passenger Transport Area. In 1965 it w ...

to form the

London Borough of Sutton The London Borough of Sutton () is an Outer London London boroughs, borough in south London, England. It covers an area of and is the 80th largest local authority in England by population. It borders the London Borough of Croydon to the east, ...

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