Cannon Hill
| Cannon Hill | |
| Surrey | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | TQ240683 |
| Location: | 51°24’2"N, 0°13’3"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 9,249 (2011) |
| Post town: | Morden / London |
| Postcode: | SM4 / SW20 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Merton |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Mitcham and Morden |
Cannon Hill is a small area of Morden in Surrey, deep within the metropolitan conurbation.
The village consists mostly of 1920s/30s terraced, semi-detached and a little detached housing set back slightly from spacious streets and urban avenues. It has fairly high statistics of car ownership per head.[1]
During the Second World War, on the night of the 1st and 2nd July 1944, a V1 flying bomb landed in Cannon Hill Lane. A resident of 19 Springfield Avenue, Margaret Leake (nee Hobbs) later recalled when the doodlebug engine cut out:
“we covered our heads as the ceilings came down and I remember the lath and plaster and the glass from the windows all over my bed in the box room at the front of the house. The boys shared the back bedroom and got more of the blast, but they were not injured.”
A 16 year old was killed in a house in Cannon Lane which received a direct hit.[2]
References
- ↑ Willey, Russ. Chambers London Gazetter, p 78.
- ↑ BBC Archive: World War Two People’s War