How and when the isolated estate at Colliers Wood was brought within the jurisdiction of the manor is not known, but certainly by the late 13th century the de la Mares had secured property interests in Merton in the form of a watermill believed to have been in the vicinity of todays Wandle Park, holding it as tenants of the archbishop of Canterburys manor of Mortlake.3 The familys lands probably also included much of north Mitcham, for Tamworth Farm, the fields and meadows of which extended westwards from Figges Marsh to abut the Colliers Wood estate, was also held of the manor of Ravensbury as late as the 19th century.4 Elsewhere in Surrey the powerful de Mara family, lords of the manor of Ashtead, were in possession of extensive estates
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