Cheam
Cheam is a suburb of London, England, 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Charing Cross.
Cheam is a suburb of London, England, 11 miles (18 km) southwest of Charing Cross. Cheam is in the London Borough of Sutton and 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 two large parks, Nonsuch Park and Cheam Park. Nonsuch Park contains the listed Nonsuch Mansion. Parts of Cheam Park and Cheam Village are in a conservation area. Cheam is bordered by Worcester Park to the northwest, Morden to the northeast, Sutton to the east, Epsom, Ewell and Stoneleigh to the west and Banstead and Belmont to the south.
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Worth seeing in and around Cheam
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Gander Green Lane
Gander Green Lane, currently known as the 360 Engage Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Sutton, Greater London, and is the home ground of Sutton United Football Club and Crystal Palace Women. The record attendance for Gander Green Lane is 14,000 when Sutton United lost 6–0 to Leeds United in the fourth round of the 1969–70 FA Cup.
900 m · football stadium in Sutton, south London · Wikipedia - 02Trinity Church
Trinity Church, Sutton is a Grade II listed United Reformed and Methodist church in the centre of Sutton, London. It was built in 1907 in the Gothic style with Kentish ragstone with Bath stone dressings.
1.2 km · church in Sutton, London · Wikipedia - 03Nonsuch Park
Nonsuch Park is a public park between Stoneleigh, Cheam, and Ewell in the borough of Epsom and Ewell in Surrey, England. It borders the London Borough of Sutton.
1.3 km · park in Epsom and Ewell, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Manor Park
Manor Park is a public park in the town of Sutton in Greater London. It was created in 1914 on a site in the town centre, opposite the police station.
1.4 km · park in Sutton, London · Wikipedia - 05Nonsuch Mansion
Nonsuch Mansion is a historic house located within Nonsuch Park in north Surrey, England near the boundary with Greater London. It is in the borough of Epsom and Ewell, adjacent to the London Borough of Sutton.
1.3 km · house in Epsom and Ewell, Surrey, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06All Saints Church
All Saints Church, Benhilton, is an English parish church within the Anglican Diocese of Southwark in the Church of England. The church is located in Sutton, Greater London, in the Sutton parish of Benhilton and was built between 1863 and 1867.
1.8 km · church in Benhilton, London · Wikipedia - 07Grove Park
The Grove Park, or The Grove is a public park in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton. It is situated close to Carshalton Village in the area approximately bounded by the High Street, North Street and Mill Lane.
3.4 km · public park in Carshalton in the London Borough of Sutton · Wikipedia - 08Secombe Theatre
The Secombe Theatre was a theatre in Cheam Road, Sutton, Greater London. The theatre was opened in 1983 by the Welsh comedian Sir Harry Secombe, who lived in Sutton for over 30 years, and was named after him.
900 m · theatre in Sutton, London, England · Wikipedia - 09The Messenger
The Messenger is a statue by the English sculptor David Wynne, OBE of a horse and rider. It was installed in the town centre of Sutton in Greater London, England in 1981.
1.4 km · statue by the English sculptor David Wynne · Wikipedia - 10St Nicholas Church
St Nicholas Church, Sutton, is a Grade II* listed parish church in the centre of Sutton, London. It was built between 1862 and 1864 in the Gothic style with dressed flint and stone dressings.
1.1 km · church in Sutton, London · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cheam
- Airports
- London Heathrow (LHR), 21 km · London Gatwick (LGW), 24 km · London Luton (LTN), 58 km
- Stations
- St Helier railway station, 3.4 km · Sutton Common railway station, 1.9 km · West Sutton railway station, 700 m · Carshalton railway station, 3.2 km · Carshalton Beeches railway station, 2.7 km
- Luton, Luton → Cheam59 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
- London, Essex → Cheam18 km · quickest by road, 1h 11m · £2–2.5
- Birmingham, West Midlands → Cheam170 km · quickest by road, 3h 22m · £20–27
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Cheam
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Cheam. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inWhile the runway is usable by aircraft up to Boeing 737/Airbus A320 size, it is prohibited for airline operators to sell tickets for flights in and out of the airport, thus there are no scheduled or holiday charter flights from the airport.
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Next door to Cheam
Cheam is 18 km from London, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- London Borough of Suttonborough in the London Region in England1.1 km
- Ewelltown in Surrey, UK2.9 km
- Q2220276suburb of London in the London Borough of Sutton, England3 km
- Suttontown in South London, England1.1 km
- Belmontarea in the London Borough of Sutton1.9 km
- Worcester Parksuburban town in south west London2.6 km