Malden Rushett
Coordinates: 51°20′12″N 0°19′13″W / 51.336769°N 0.320285°W
| Malden Rushett | |
 Malden Rushett
Malden Rushett shown within Greater London |
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| OS grid reference | TQ171610 |
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| London borough | Kingston |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region | London |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | CHESSINGTON |
| Postcode district | KT9 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
| EU Parliament | London |
| UK Parliament | Kingston and Surbiton |
| London Assembly | South West |
| List of places: UK • England • London | |
Malden Rushett is a small settlement in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, London at the southernmost tip of the Royal Borough.
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[edit] Facilities
Malden Rushett sits on the crossroads of the A243 road from Kingston upon Thames to Leatherhead and the B280 from Oxshott to Epsom. It consists of a few houses, two pubs and a petrol station incorporating an M&S Simply Food shop. It is less than one mile from Junction 9 on the M25 motorway.
The area also houses the Explorer Gate (south entrance and car park) of Chessington World of Adventures & Zoo Resort.
[edit] Rushett Common
South of Malden Rushett is Rushett Common consisting of two strips of woodland alongside the A243 to the edge of the boundary between Greater London and Surrey.[1] These are bounded by the Surrey woodlands of Princes Covert to the west and Epsom Common to the east. Within Rushett Common is Telegraph Hill - earlier known as Cabbage Hill - which was the site of a station on the Admiralty Shutter telegraph line. This used the shutter system to communicate between London and Portsmouth from 1796 until 1816. The buildings were small two-roomed wooden huts with a frame which held the six wooden shutters.[2] The station was replaced by a semaphore station built at Claygate.
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| Next station upwards | Admiralty Shutter telegraph line 1795 | Next station downwards |
| Putney Heath | Malden Rushett | Netley Heath |
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