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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF
THE AREA.
Area (in acres) 3,048
Population, Census, 1931 26,249
Registrar-General's estimate of resident population for 1937 30,590
Number of inhabited houses, 1931 7,092
Number of inhabited houses, 1937 8,877
Rateable Value, December, 1937 £359,631
Sum represented by penny rate, December, 1937 £1,454
The year 1937 was memorable in many ways, but most of all by
reason of the district, after many years of rapid growth, attaining full
stature in this year and assuming Borough status.
The Urban District of Beddington and Wallington was constituted
in 1915 by an Order of the Surrey County Council, the area up to that
time constituting part of the Croydon Rural District.
By an order in Council, dated 20th August, 1937, H.M. King George
VI granted a charter to Beddington and Wallington, which was presented
on the 15th September, 1937, by the Lord Lieutenant of the
County of Surrey.
The Borough is bounded on the east by the County Borough of
Croydon, to the north by the Borough of Mitcham, to the west by the
Carshalton Urban District and to the south by the Urban District of
Coulsdon and Purley.
The character of the Borough, though it has been greatly developed
and increased in population, has changed little in personality and
charm.
For the most part the district is still residential in character, the
middle third being almost wholly so, while the southern third, although
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