Editing Mitcham (section)

== Open spaces ==
[[File:Pond on Mitcham Common. - geograph.org.uk - 22077.jpg|thumb|Pond on Mitcham Common]]
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Mitcham is home to a large area (460 acres) of South London's open green space in the form of [[Mitcham Common]], studded with a few ponds and buildings.

The buildings comprising the Windmill Trading Estate have existed in one form or another since 1782. The Mill House Ecology Centre and the Harvester (formerly the Mill House Pub) are located near the site of an old windmill, the remnants of which still exist.

The Seven Islands pond is the largest of all the ponds, created following [[gravel]] extraction of the 19th century.<ref>[https://wandlevalleypark.co.uk/locations/merton/mitcham-common/ ''wandlevalleypark.co.uk'']</ref> The most recent, Bidder's pond, was created in 1990 and named after [[George Parker Bidder]].