New Malden High Street is a 1 km-long high street in

New Malden New Malden is an area in South West London, England. It is located mainly within the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames and the London Borough of Merton, and is from Charing Cross. Neighbouring localities include Kingston, Norbiton, Raynes ...

, the centre of the suburb that grew up around

New Malden railway station New Malden railway station is in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south London. It is south-west of . The station is served by South Western Railway, and is in Travelcard Zone 4. History The station was opened by the London an ...

in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is in the

Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames is a borough in southwest London. The main town is Kingston upon Thames and it includes Surbiton, Chessington, Malden Rushett, New Malden and Tolworth. It is the oldest of the four royal boroughs in Eng ...

, now part of south west London.

Features

As well as containing a variety of high street names, New Malden High Street is most notable for its many Korean shops and restaurants, due to New Malden having the largest population of South Koreans in Europe. Mace, a high-end, small department store specialising in authentic English goods such as china and glass, is a frequent tourist destination for Korean businesspeople, especially when the exchange rate is favourable. There are several other ethnic restaurants and shops in the High Street and nearby. New Malden war memorial

Tudor Williams Ltd, established in 1913, was a family-run

department store A department store is a retail establishment offering a wide range of consumer goods in different areas of the store, each area ("department") specializing in a product category. In modern major cities, the department store made a dramatic app ...

in the High Street. It went into administration and closed in June 2019.

Waitrose Waitrose & Partners (formally Waitrose Limited) is a brand of British supermarkets, founded in 1904 as Waite, Rose & Taylor, later shortened to Waitrose. It was acquired in 1937 by employee-owned retailer John Lewis Partnership, which still se ...

opened their 131st branch in New Malden High Street, behind New Malden War Memorial. Each Christmas, the High Street is festooned with Christmas lights with its own switching-on ceremony. Choirs from primary schools around New Malden sing Christmas Carols to the townsfolk. Each summer, Malden Fortnight includes a Saturday afternoon "Grand Parade" along the High Street and an all-day Saturday "Craft Fair" along the sides of the High Street. On 7 June 2020, New Malden High Street was the site of a peaceful static protest in support of the

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movement. Several hundred local residents lined the road for more than an hour to voice their support for anti-racism. At 1pm they kneeled for 8 minutes 46 seconds in memory of George Floyd.

Fountain

At the southern end of the High Street there is a roundabout known as the Fountain Roundabout because it has a fountain which was originally used for drinking water by horses. The Fountain Roundabout has The Fountain Public House on one corner (closed in 2018), and The Watchman Public House on another. From the roundabout are four exits: one to the High Street, one to

Kingston upon Thames Kingston upon Thames (hyphenated until 1965, colloquially known as Kingston) is a town in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames, southwest London, England. It is situated on the River Thames and southwest of Charing Cross. It is notable ...

, one towards

Worcester Park Worcester Park is a suburban town in South West London, England. It lies in the London boroughs of Sutton and Kingston, and partly in the Surrey borough of Epsom and Ewell. The area is southwest of Charing Cross. The suburb's population was ...

Cheam Cheam () is a suburb of London, England, south-west of Charing Cross. It is divided into North Cheam, Cheam Village and South Cheam. Cheam Village contains the listed buildings Lumley Chapel and the 16th-century Whitehall. It is adjacent to ...

and

Sutton Sutton (''south settlement'' or ''south town'' in Old English) may refer to: Places United Kingdom England In alphabetical order by county: * Sutton, Bedfordshire * Sutton, Berkshire, a location * Sutton-in-the-Isle, Ely, Cambridgeshire * ...

, and one towards

Raynes Park Raynes Park is a residential suburb, railway station and local centre near Wimbledon, London, and is within the London Borough of Merton. It is situated southwest of Wimbledon Common, to the northwest of Wimbledon Chase and to the east of Ne ...

and Wimbledon; the latter two cross the main London to Portsmouth Road ( A3 road).

Railway bridges

The northern end of the High Street is under the centre of the twin railway bridges by

. The station entrance is on Coombe Road, which extends the High Street shopping area.

References

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High Street High Street is a common street name for the primary business street of a city, town, or village, especially in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth. It implies that it is the focal point for business, especially shopping. It is also a metonym fo ...