Whitton

Whitton is a town in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, situated 10.7 miles (17.2 km) west south-west of Charing Cross in Central London. It expanded rapidly as a residential suburb in Middlesex during the 1930s and is served by a wealth of local shops and businesses. Whitton is first mentioned in historical documents around 1200, though it had probably been settled a century or so earlier. It remained little more than a hamlet for centuries but by the 16th Century had already begun to attract outsiders. The Elizabethan and Jacobean courtier Sir John Suckling built a house in the vicinity of the present Murray Park (his son the poet Sir John Suckling was born in Whitton in 1609).