London Minibus Hire
Southfields
Car Hire – Minibuses – Southfields,
London
At The Car Hire Company, our business is supplying car, van and
minibus hire to London and its home counties. If you live within
London’s M25 (London ring road) we can even drop off your
minibus hire and pick it up. Plus, our minibus hires are available
for use all over the United Kingdom, and to Europe by request as
we need to arrange extra coverage and insurance. The Car Hire Company
offers quality services for a value price.
Southfields Local Information
Southfields is a suburb in the London Borough of Wandsworth and
lies in the post codes of Wandsworth and Wimbledon. ‘South
Field’ dates back to 1247 and was so called because it was
the south field in the manor of Dunsford. Until the late 1800s,
Southfields was mainly fields with scattered paths – these
paths later formed the roads that exist today.
As with most rural areas when the railway came through in 1889
the area began to develop and a year later the first school opened
on a road that was once a little path through a field. As late as
1990 there were no pubs in the central area of Southfields (known
as ‘the Grid’), but there are now two next to each other
on Replingham Road. The Grid itself was built between 1898 and 1907.
Southfields’ parks, schools and transport links have meant
that the once working-class suburb has been transformed and housing
prices have risen somewhat.
Southfields is also home to a large South African community –
starting with a trickle of immigrants as Southfields was known to
be close to Wimbledon (and South Africans are known for their love
of all thing sport). Then as the job situation in South Africa changed,
the trickle of immigrants became a steady stream.
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