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Wimbledon is a suburb located in London, England. It is notable as the home of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, which hosts the annual Wimbledon tennis tournament, one of the most prestigious sporting events in the world.
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Located in
- London Borough of Merton
- Population
- 92765
- Shares border with
- Sutton
- Image
- Wimbledon.jpg
- Dialing code
- 020
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- P8168
- Franz Berwald
- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Wimbledon
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Wimbledon
- Commons category
- Wimbledon
- topic's main category
- Category:Wimbledon, London
- OS grid reference
- TQ239709
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Wimbledon, London
- P12749
- Richard Abegg
- postal code
- SW20
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Wimbledon (/ˈwɪmbəldən/) is a suburb of southwest London, England, 7.0 miles (11.3 km) southwest of Charing Cross; it is the main commercial centre of the London Borough of Merton. Wimbledon had a population of 68,189 in 2011 which includes the electoral wards of Abbey, Wimbledon Town and Dundonald, Hillside, Wandle, Village, Raynes Park and Wimbledon Park.
It is home to the Wimbledon Championships and New Wimbledon Theatre, and contains Wimbledon Common, one of the largest areas of common land in London. The residential and retail area is split into two sections known as the "village" and the "town", with the High Street being the rebuilding of the original medieval village, and the "town" having first developed gradually after the building of the railway station in 1838.
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