London Car Rental Wimbledon

Car Hire – Car Rental – Wimbledon, London

The Car Hire Company offers quality car rental services to Wimbledon and the entire region inside the M25 London ring road. We can deliver your choice of car rental right to your doorstep. We also offer unlimited mileage so you no longer need to keep track of your miles. All you pay for is the petrol or diesel fuel.

Wimbledon Local Information

Perhaps famous for tennis above all else (after all, the Wimbledon Tennis Championship has been held there for 100 years), Wimbledon is actually a suburb of London, located in the Merton borough of London. Get there by car rental and see the world’s greatest tennis championship.

The name Wimbledon is thought to be taken from the Old English for ‘Wynnman’s Hill’ (with hill translated as ‘dun’). After a long history of changes, the current name is believed to have been settled on sometime in the 1800s. That’s a huge change from the original recorded ‘Wimbedounyng’ in 967! Settlement in Wimbledon is thought to date back to the Iron Age, with a fort being constructed on the common. What is now known as ‘the village’ was back then the original centre of the town. Use your car rental to travel to the common for a picnic or stroll.

The manor of Wimbledon belonged to the church until 1398 when the Archbishop of Canterbury fell out of favour with Richard II, and it became royal property. It was held by Henry VIII’s wife Catherine Parr until her death in 1548 when it again became crown property. Henry’s daughter Mary I gave the manor to a Cardinal of the church until his death in 1558, when it again became crown property.

Later, in the 1600s, Wimbledon grew popular with wealthy families due to its closeness to London, and in 1613 Robert Bell built Eagle House to use as a home close to the city. Even later still, in the 1900s, Wimbledon’s popularity increased again and further, and residential expansion had peaked by 1930. During WWII many houses were destroyed and so building began to turn the old large houses and blocks into apartments – and parts of Wimbledon Park were also developed for those whose houses had been demolished by bombs. Wimbledon is an easy trip from London in your car rental from The Car Hire Company.

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