W is for Woodcote

LONDON A-Z W is for Woodcote It's about time I visited an unsung suburb in Sutton, London's most unsung borough. And this one's really off-radar, despite having several distinct parts and covering up to two square miles. You'll find Woodcote south of Wallington, west of Purley and north of Coulsdon amid a rural fringe most Londoners can't even comprehend. The main nucleus is Woodcote Green but there's also Upper Woodcote (which the Ordnance Survey annotates as Woodcote), the outlier of Little Woodcote and a heck of a lot of roads called Woodcote Something, also no pubs and hardly any pre-20th century buildings. Let's see what I can find. Woodcote Green does indeed have a green and it's triangular in shape (very much scalene, largest angle about 110). The shortest side is part of the main road between Carshalton and Coulsdon, thus quite busy, while the hypotenuse is lined by well-spaced detached houses. An awful lot of Woodcote is occupied by "well-spaced detached houses", and at the…

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