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New Malden is a
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an area in southwest
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, England. It is within the
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and the
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, and is from
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. Neighbouring localities include
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,
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,
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, Coombe,
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, Motspur Park, Old Malden, and
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. Before the creation of
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in 1965, New Malden was in the
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of
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.


History

New Malden was established as a result of the arrival of the railway. What is now
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was opened on 1 December 1846 on the main line from London Waterloo. Building started slowly in the area just to the north of the station, gathering pace in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with two- and three-bedroom
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s. Further out towards Coombe Hill are larger detached and semi-detached houses built in the 1930s. The name of the road which leads up the hill to Coombe, Traps Lane, is thought to derive from a farm owned by a Mrs Trap. Following the opening of the Kingston bypass in 1927, the farms to its south were progressively developed for housing. Two miles (3 km) to the south is the former village of Old Malden the origins of which are Anglo-Saxon, the name being
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for ''Mæl'' + ''duna'' = "the cross on the hill". Under the District Councils Act 1895, The Maldens & Coombe Urban District Council was created (the plural relating to Old Malden and New Malden). In 1936 Malden and Coombe was granted full Borough status, with its own Mayor, and had the rare distinction of a civic mace bearing the royal insignia of
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. New Malden suffered damage from German bombing during the Second World War. The first attack took place on 16 August 1940, killing about 50 people and damaging about 1,300 homes. After dropping about 150 bombs, German aircraft reportedly flew over the railway station at low altitude and machine-gunned passengers as they disembarked from a train. Unexploded munitions from this period are still found on occasion. In 1965, the
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came into force merging the boroughs of Malden & Coombe and
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with Kingston upon Thames to form the
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. New Malden contains offices of several large organisations, including
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in Burlington Road. Nestlé Purina Pet Foods (before 1997 Spillers Pet Foods) was located in New Malden until 2012 when Nestlé moved its UK headquarters to Gatwick.


Description

New Malden is bounded to the north by the affluent Coombe and to the south and east by Raynes Park, Tolworth and Worcester Park. New Malden includes Motspur Park, home to the training ground of Fulham FC, and also the
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sports ground, home to the training ground of
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. * To the west:
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,
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* To the south: Old Malden,
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,
Tolworth Tolworth is a suburban area in the Surbiton district, Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London. It is southwest of Charing Cross. Neighbouring places include Berrylands, Chessington, Epsom, Ewell, Kingston upon Thames, Kingston, Lo ...
,
Worcester Park Worcester Park is a suburban town in South London, England. It lies in the London boroughs of Sutton and Kingston, and partly in the Surrey borough of Epsom and Ewell. The area is southwest of Charing Cross. The suburb's population was 16,031 ...
* To the east: Motspur Park,
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, West Barnes * To the north: Coombe,
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,
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The busy A3 trunk road runs through part of New Malden. A minor tributary of the
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,
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, flows through the east of the town, while its western boundary is along the Hogsmill, another Thames tributary. The first
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s were made in New Malden at Venners Ltd.


Demographics


Korean community

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames has a large expatriate communities of
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in Europe. According to different sources, as of 2014 there were about 10,000 ethnic Koreans in New Malden proper,Fischer, Paul.
The Korean Republic of New Malden: How Surrey became home to the 70 year-old conflict
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and as of the same year the Korean population in the area around New Malden is around 20,000, including about 600 originating from
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, giving it the largest group of North Koreans in Europe.Parrish, Charlie.
Why is New Malden home to more North Koreans than any other place in Europe?
''
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In the 2001 census, some small areas of New Malden had "Other Asian" (i.e., not Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or Chinese) populations of "over 25%", though no whole ward reached over 20%. Many of the Koreans living in New Malden work for Korean companies, and they are either permanently settled and formerly expatriate, or they are still expatriates.Moore, Fiona. "The German School in London, UK: Fostering the Next Generation of National Cosmopolitans?" (Chapter 4). In: Coles, Anne and Anne-Meike Fechter. ''Gender and Family Among Transnational Professionals'' (Routledge International Studies of Women and Place).
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According to some journalists, it is often referred as 'Korea Town' or 'Little Korea'. The New Malden area has
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churches and nursery schools as well as restaurants and shops with Korean clientele. New Malden functions as the shopping and cultural centre for a Korean population spread more widely across South-West London and the neighbouring counties. The area has Korean supermarkets, about 20 Korean restaurants and cafes, including those serving
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. It also has a noraebang (Karaoke bar), and many other shops. The Korean language is visible on several shop signs. The original Embassy of South Korea was in New Malden, before moving to 60 Buckingham Gate in
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. Some factors cited in ''
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'' as reasons why the Korean community formed in New Malden included a 1950s joint venture partnership between a
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and Racal Avionics (formerly
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), Lord Chancellor's Walk in Coombe Lane West previously serving as the residence of the Ambassador of South Korea to the United Kingdom, and
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having its UK offices in New Malden until they moved to their current location in
Chertsey Chertsey is a town in the Borough of Runnymede, Surrey, England, southwest of central London. It grew up around Chertsey Abbey, founded in AD 666 by Earconwald, St Erkenwald, and gained a municipal charter, market charter from Henry I of Engla ...
, Surrey in 2005. Many Koreans settled in New Malden in the 1970s due to the ambassador's location.


Other

There is a Hindu temple in the eastern part of Burlington Road with a notable community of predominantly
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living in the area. In 2016 New Malden gained twin city status with
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, Sri Lanka and a permanent plaque was erected to celebrate this.


Amenities

New Malden has its own sports centre, the Malden Centre, which includes a swimming pool, gym and community facilities. It also runs several adult learning courses. Tudor Williams Ltd, established in 1913 but closed in 2019, was a family run
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in the High Street. The company also has shops in Cobham and Dorking and expanded by acquiring department stores Elphicks of Farnham in October 2004, and Knights of Reigate in September 2006. A branch of
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is one of a number of other well known stores in the High Street. Pubs in New Malden include The Glasshouse (formerly The Railway), adjacent to the train station; The Royal Oak, north of the station on Coombe Road; Woodies Freehouse on Thetford Road, and The Watchman, located at the roundabout in a building constructed in the 1890s which was originally a police station. The Fountain pub, once located at the roundabout, closed in 2018 to make way for affordable housing. The local newspapers are the '' Surrey Comet'' which has been in print since 1854, '' Coombe Monthly'', and the '' Kingston Guardian''. A monthly publication, ''The Village Voice'', covers local history, news, topical articles and advertisements for businesses serving the community. There is an annual Malden Fortnight, which includes a parade showcasing all the local schools and community groups and various other activities. Each Christmas the High Street is festooned with Christmas lights with its own switching-on ceremony. New Malden has a youth theatre, the Green Theatre Company, established in 1986 in a converted cricket pavilion at Barton Green. The area's last surviving cinema, the Odeon at Shannon Corner on the A3 was replaced by a large retail area including several large stores. The other cinema in the High Street (corner of Sussex Road) burnt down on Boxing Day 1936. There was also a silent cinema on Coombe Road by the station, which became the New Malden Gentlemen's Club in 1923; this closed in August 2010, and is now a Korean karaoke and pool bar. New Malden also has its own "Dino-Golf" course, 18 holes of dinosaur themed crazy golf overlooking the A3, as well as a floodlit golf driving range. Large B&Q,
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and
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stores are situated away from the High Street, which focuses more on smaller, more upmarket shops and restaurants. New Malden is home to the playing fields of both
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and the
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, which are available for hire when not in use by university teams.


Notable open spaces

* Beverley Park provides a football pitch, tennis courts, children's playground, allotments and open space. * Blagdon Open Space * Dickerage Recreation Ground * Green Lane Recreation Ground * Malden Golf Club, situated between Coombe Lane and Traps Lane, was established at its present site in 1926. *
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and
Richmond Park Richmond Park, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is the largest of Royal Parks of London, London's Royal Parks and is of national and international importance for wildlife conservation. It was created by Charles I of England, Cha ...
are within easy reach of New Malden.


Education and schools

* Burlington (primary and nursery) * Christ Church New Malden (primary and nursery, Church of England) * Coombe Boys' School (secondary; "Beverley" prior to 2006; coeducational sixth form) * Coombe Girls' School (secondary; coeducational sixth form) * Coombe Hill Junior School (primary) * Corpus Christi (primary and nursery, Roman Catholic) * Holy Cross (secondary, Roman Catholic School) * King's Oak (primary and nursery; formerly, "The Mount") * Malden Manor (primary and nursery) * Richard Challoner (secondary, Roman Catholic) * Sacred Heart (primary) * Study School (primary)


Transport


Rail

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has services provided by
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to London Waterloo,
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,
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,
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and
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. It is in London Zone 4. The Old Malden area is well served by trains from Malden Manor railway station, travelling north to London Waterloo and south to
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. Motspur Park railway station on the New Malden/
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borders also has rail connections to Chessington South,
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,
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and
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.


Bus

There are many routes of
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going through New Malden, including route 213 route going from Kingston towards
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, routes 131 and N87 going through Kingston Town Centre and Tooting Broadway (and
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for the night bus) along with the SL7 express bus to
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and
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, route 152 from New Malden towards Pollards Hill and route 265 towards Tolworth, Roehampton and Putney. The town also has a series of local bus routes, including K1 which goes to Kingston and New Malden station and K5 to Ham and Morden.


Notable residents

Notable former or current residents include: * Cyril Barton – posthumously awarded the
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during
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* Ian Bazalgette – posthumously awarded the
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during
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* Tracy Borman, historian and author, lives in New Malden. * Bernard Braden – TV personality, popular during the 1960s and early 1970s *
Jane Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton Jane Susan Campbell, Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, (born 19 April 1959), is a British disability rights campaigner and a life peer in the House of Lords. She was Commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), and served as t ...
– British peer and Commissioner of the
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*
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, sculptor, was born here in 1924. * Vernon Corea – Sri Lankan TV pioneer *
Paul Geraghty Paul Geraghty (born 3 May 1959, in Durban, South Africa) is a British based author and illustrator of children's picture books. He also writes teenage fiction and won the Young Africa Award for his first novel ''Pig''. Background His master ...
– author/illustrator *
Tom Holland Thomas Stanley Holland (born 1 June 1996) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, including a BAFTA Award, he featured on the ''Forbes'' 30 Under 30 Europe list of 2019. Some publications have called him one of the most ...
– actor * Barbara Kelly – TV personality *
David Kynaston David Thomas Anthony Kynaston (; born 30 July 1951 in Aldershot) is an English historian specialising in the social history of England. Early life and education Kynaston was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire and New College, Oxford, f ...
– author, historian *
John Martyn Iain David McGeachy (11 September 1948 – 29 January 2009), known professionally as John Martyn, was a British singer-songwriter and guitarist. Over a 40-year career, he released 23 studio albums and received frequent critical acclaim. ...
(1948–2009) – singer-songwriter, was born in New Malden. * Sally Morgan – celebrity psychic medium * Jamal Musiala – footballer, attended Corpus Christi RC Primary School in New Malden. * Cyril Power – artist *
Diana Rigg Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg (20 July 1938 – 10 September 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her roles include Emma Peel in the TV series ''The Avengers (TV series), The Avengers'' (1965–1968); Countess Tracy Bond, Teresa di ...
– actress * Luke Sital-Singh – singer-songwriter * Colin Southgate – businessman *
Stormzy Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. (born 26 July 1993), known professionally as Stormzy, is an English-Ghanaian rapper, singer, and songwriter. In 2014, he gained attention on the UK underground music scene through his ''Wicked Skengman'' ...
– rapper, singer and songwriter * Max Wall – actor, comedian and entertainer * Eileen Way, actress and activist, was born in New Malden. * Jamie Woon – singer-songwriter *
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– drummer * Declan Rice - footballer


Sports


Cricket

* Malden Wanderers Cricket Club (1879) * Kingstonian Cricket Club (1989)


See also

*
Koreatown, Los Angeles Koreatown (, Latn, ko, Koriataun) is a Neighborhoods of Los Angeles, neighborhood in central Los Angeles, California, centered near Eighth and Irolo streets. Koreans began immigrating in larger numbers in the 1960s and found housing in the Mi ...
*
Spring Branch, Houston Spring Branch is a district in west-northwest Harris County, Texas, Harris County, Texas, United States, roughly bordered by Tanner Road and Hempstead Road to the north, Beltway 8 to the west, Interstate 10 (Texas), Interstate 10 to the south, a ...
, the centre of the Korean community in Houston, Texas *
Oseyo Oseyo is a supermarket chain specializing in Korean foods, as well as other Asian products. The company is the UK's largest specialist grocery retailer. Overview The company currently has 20 branches in the United Kingdom, 14 of which are loc ...
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H Mart H Mart ( or ) is an American chain of Asian supermarkets operated by the Hanahreum Group, headquartered in Lyndhurst, Bergen County, New Jersey. The chain has 84 stores throughout the United States, operated variously as H Mart, H Mart Northwes ...


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{{Authority control Areas of London Districts of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames Districts of the London Borough of Merton Koreatowns Ethnic enclaves in the United Kingdom District centres of London