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Colliers Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Mitcham

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) . Cf . The Colliers close 1576 SewersRept . For the colliers or charcoal burners of this area , cf . ' Grim the Collier of Croydon ' and VCH iv , 216 .