Editing Wimbledon, London (section)

==Governance and representation==
At the time the [[Domesday Book]] was compiled (around 1086), Wimbledon was part of the [[Manorialism|manor]] of Mortlake.<ref name="Wimbledon"/> From 1328 to 1536, a manor of Wimbledon was recorded as belonging to the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]].<ref>{{cite book |url=http://www.wcraltd.co.uk/id15.html |title=New Short History of Wimbledon |author=Richard John Milward |publisher=Wimbledon Society, 1989 |access-date=21 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008092636/http://www.wcraltd.co.uk/id15.html |archive-date=8 October 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The manor of Wimbledon changed hands many times during its history. Wimbledon was an [[civil parish#Ancient parishes|Ancient Parish]] from the medieval period, later being re-organised as the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon within the county of [[Surrey]].

In 1965, the [[London Government Act 1963]] abolished the Municipal Borough of Wimbledon, [[Merton and Morden Urban District]] and the [[Municipal Borough of Mitcham]], creating instead the London Borough of Merton. Initially, the new administrative centre was at Wimbledon Town Hall, but it moved to the 14-storey Crown House in Morden in the early 1990s.

It is now the Parliamentary constituency of [[Wimbledon (UK Parliament constituency)|Wimbledon]], and since [[2024 United Kingdom general election|2024]] has been represented by [[Paul Kohler (politician)|Paul Kohler]], a [[Liberal Democrats (UK)|Liberal Democrat]] MP.