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Coordinates: 51°20′52″N 0°12′41″W / 51.3478°N 0.2113°W / 51.3478; -0.2113

Cheam
Cheam Broadway at the crossroads in Cheam Village
Cheam  Cheam shown within Greater London
OS grid reference	TQ245625
London borough	Sutton
Ceremonial county	Greater London
Region	London
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	SUTTON
Postcode district	SM2, SM3
Dialling code	020
Police	Metropolitan
Fire	London
Ambulance	London
EU Parliament	London
UK Parliament	Sutton and Cheam
London Assembly	Croydon and Sutton
List of places: UK • England • London

Cheam ( /ˈtʃiːm/) is a large suburban village close to Sutton in the London Borough of Sutton, England, and is located close to the southern boundary between Greater London and Surrey. It is divided into two main areas: North Cheam and Cheam Village. North Cheam includes more retail shops and supermarkets, whilst Cheam Village and the south of Cheam are more residential. The Village does, however, constitute a small retail and restaurant quarter in its own right (see below). Cheam is bordered by Worcester Park (to the north-west), Morden (to the north-east), Sutton (to the east), Ewell (to the west) as well as Banstead and Belmont to the South. Cheam is one of the southernmost areas in Outer London under the control of a Greater London Authority (The London Borough of Sutton) as opposed to Surrey County Council, which controls bordering towns to the South and West including Banstead and Ewell. It is located in London Travelcard Zone 5, and the area is served by Cheam railway station.

History[link]

The village lay within the Anglo-Saxon administrative division of Wallington hundred.

Cheam's roots can be dated back as far as 1018, when Chertsey Abbey owned the area. In the Domesday Book, the Bishop was holding Cheam to cater for the monks.

Cheam appears in Domesday Book as Ceiham. It was held by Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury. Its Domesday assets were: 4 hides; 1 church, 17 ploughs, 1-acre (4,000 m²) of meadow, woodland worth 25 hogs. It rendered £14.^[1]

In the Middle Ages, Cheam was known for its potteries^{[citation needed]}, and recent excavations have been carried out by archaeologists. In 1538, part of Cheam was handed over to Henry VIII. The same year, Henry began work on Nonsuch Palace, which he decorated fantastically. This was later sold and demolished. In 1801, the time of the first census, Cheam had a population of 616.

Cheam was the original home of Cheam School which was formed in Whitehall in 1645 and later occupied Tabor Court from 1719 until 1934 when the school moved to Berkshire. Prince Philip attended the school in Cheam in the years immediately preceding its move.

Cheam Village and North Cheam[link]

Whitehall in Cheam Village

The Mansion House, Nonsuch Park

Cheam Village is centred around a crossroad between Sutton, North Cheam, South Cheam and Ewell. As well as bus services, it is served by Cheam mainline station which is in Zone 5 and one stop from Sutton, about a mile away. Services from Cheam to central London include direct trains to Victoria which take about half-an-hour. It has several historic buildings, including some which date back several centuries, such as Whitehall and Lumley Chapel (see below). It is the most upmarket part of Cheam commercially, with its shopping and catering facilities including Waitrose, Majestic Wine Warehouse, Costa Coffee, Prezzo and Pizza Express, as well as many independent establishments. The entrance to Nonsuch Park with its historic mansion (see below) is two hundred yards from the village centre crossroad.

North Cheam is situated about a mile north of the village at the crossroad between Cheam Village and Worcester Park, Epsom and Morden. There are well established bus services serving the area, including services 213 (Sutton to Kingston), 151 (Wallington to Worcester Park), 93 (North Cheam to Putney Bridge) and the less frequent X26 express service between Heathrow and Croydon. The nearest tube station is in Morden. Victoria Junction is the centre of North Cheam. The area consists of a large Sainsbury's supermarket, a neighbouring park, numerous independent shops and restaurants, a post office and several banks. Plans to redevelop a vacant 1960s building at the North Cheam crossroad into a slicker-looking new one will undoubtedly improve the area's appearance, as well as adding commercial and residential provision.

St. Anthony's Hospital is a large private hospital which exists on the London Road in North Cheam.

Cheam Leisure Centre, on Malden Road, offers facilities including a swimming pool (30m x 12m), squash courts and fitness gym.

Places of interest[link]

Lumley Chapel[link]

Lumley Chapel

Situated next to St Dunstan's church, it is the oldest standing building in the London Borough of Sutton. It contains many notable monuments to local families and is in the care of a national charity the Churches Conservation Trust. Too small to be used for regular worship it is open to visitors with the key being held by nearby properties.

Whitehall[link]

Whitehall is a timber framed and weatherboarded house in the centre of Cheam Village. It was originally built in about 1500 as a wattle and daub yeoman farmer's house but has been much extended. The external weatherboarded appearance dates from the 18th century. In the garden there is a medieval well which served an earlier building on the site.

The building is open to the public on Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 2-5pm; Saturday 10 am - 5 pm, Sunday & Bank Holiday Monday 2-5 pm. There is an admission charge, and an audio guide. There is a programme of events and changing exhibitions in the house, which also has displays about the history of the house and its inhabitants, nearby Cheam School, and Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace.

Nonsuch Mansion[link]

A Gothic revival mansion within Nonsuch Park built in 1802-6. The service wing is occasionally open to the public. A popular place for wedding receptions, as it is available for hire.

The Old Rectory[link]

A large part timber-framed house, built in Tudor period, but extended and remodelled in the Eighteenth Century. Occasionally open to the public.

The Old Farmhouse[link]

A large timber-framed and weatherboarded Yeoman farmers house, forming part of the Cheam Conservation Area with St Dunstan's Church, Whitehall, The Old Rectory and the Lumley Chapel. The Old Farmhouse has a crown post roof and large Tudor axial chimney stack in the centre with large fireplaces. The earliest part of the house is 15th Century, with several building stages extending the house in the 16th and 17th centuries, creating a Baffle House design popular in the 17th Century. Many original features remain including oak doors and hinges, window shutters and fireplaces. Much of the timber framing is exposed throughout the house. Recent excavation and ground imaging uncovered a large Tudor kitchen underneath the house with a Tudor hearth and hood visible. Access to the cellar kitchen was by a staircase going north to south, which is now under the floor of the current owners kitchen. A file of text and images relating to the house is available in the Conservation Archive in Sutton Library.

Parks and gardens[link]

Today Cheam is mainly built up, but still retains Nonsuch Park, also home to an imposing historic building with extensive flower gardens. Facilities include an ice cream shop and car park. Cheam Park backs onto Nonsuch Park, with many facilities such as tennis courts, football pitches and a children's playground.

Schools[link]

There are a number of schools in Cheam, most notably Nonsuch High School, a highly successful grammar school for girls and Cheam High School, a large mixed comprehensive school. There are also a number of primary schools in the area such as Cuddington Croft, St Cecilias Catholic Primary School, Cheam Fields Primary, Cheam Common Primary, Cheam Park Farm Nursery and Infants School, Cheam Park Farm Juniors, Nonsuch Primary and St. Dunstans Church of England Primary.

Cultural references[link]

In most series of the comedy show Hancock's Half Hour, Tony Hancock lived in the fictional road Railway Cuttings, in fictional East Cheam. According to the census of 1841, East Cheam, North Cheam, Garden Green, Cheam Common. So officially East Cheam did exist in name and was not fictional.

British stand-up comedian and actor Eddie Izzard mentions Cheam in the 'Death Star Canteen' act of his 2000 tour Circle, using it jokingly as the birth place of Darth Vader: "... Sir Lord Vader? Sir Lord Vader of Cheam?"

Notable people[link]

• Harry Secombe once lived in Cheam
• David Bellamy attended Cheam Fields Primary School
• Tim Vine was born in Cheam
• Jeremy Vine grew up in Cheam
• Paul Greengrass was born in Cheam
• Mark Worrall resides in Cheam
• Alec Stewart (ex-England cricketer) lived in Cheam
• Peter Manley was born in Cheam
• Koop Arponen, a winner in the Finnish version of Pop Idol attended Cheam High School
• Carrie Quinlan lived in Cheam and attended Nonsuch High School
• Jimmy Mann resides in Cheam, attended Cheam Fields primary school
• Tony Hancock lived in and set his sketches in Cheam.

Film locations[link]

St Dunstan's Church, used as a film location

• St. Dunstan's Church was used in an episode of The I.T. Crowd Series 2.
• Peep Show used Cheam Park for a location shoot.
• An episode of Terry and June features the walkway between the library car park and St. Dunstans Church.
• The Village crossroads was used in a police chase on The Bill.
• South Drive and the houses within, where used for a soap opera during the mid-90's.
• The Old Rectory was used as a location for the rap group N-Dubz in the group's earlier videos
• The Bill used the Nonsuch Manor House in Nonsuch Park in one of its episodes.

Nearby places[link]

• Belmont
• Ewell
• Morden
• Sutton
• Worcester Park
• Stoneleigh
• Epsom

References[link]

External links[link]

• Cheam at the Open Directory Project
• Hancock's Legacy David McKie in The Guardian, November 30, 2006.

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Preap Sovath
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Background information
Born	(1972-02-27) February 27, 1972 (age 40) Kandal, Cambodia
Genres	Cambodian Music (various genres of music)
Occupations	Singer, Actor
Years active	1992 - Present
Labels	Rasmey Hang Meas Production

Preap Sovath (ព្រាប សុវត្ថិ) (also spelled Preap Savat) (born May 25, 1975) is a singer in Cambodia.^[1] He records for Cambodian production company Rasmey Hang Meas.

Preap Sovath performs the style of music known as "Khmer Karaoke", the name derives from the fact that most sales are of VCDs rather than CDs and all VCD film clips come with karaoke-style subtitled lyrics.

Preap Sovath generally eschews strictly traditional Khmer songs and musical styles, instead his music is modern style for Cambodia's youth. He performs on many televised anthology-style live concert programmes and holds residencies at Phnom Penh's nightclubs. He has also released a compilation album Do Re Mi with Kim Leakhena.

Live performances[link]

Best of the Best: Live Concert is a concert performed annually since 2004 at a football(soccer) stadium by Cambodian singers including Raksmey Hang Meas and Preap Sovath. The concert is free to the public; the sales of the DVD or CD cover the costs.

MTV EXIT Concert Preap Sovath took part in MTV EXIT Concert in Phnom Penh on December 12, 2008. The concert is part of a campaign to raise awareness to end exploitation and human trafficking in Asia.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Rasmey Hang Meas Production's Website [1]
• Preap Sovath's Profile (under construction)[2]
• Preap Sovath's Profile - Angkorthom [3]

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Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (ឝភីរោ ជៀម សុភិលីន) (born in 1967 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is a Cambodian dancer and choreographer.

Early life[link]

At the age of eight she was forced to live in the countryside of Cambodia after her family was evacuated from the city by the Khmer Rouge.^[1] When the civil war of Cambodia ended, one of the first priorities for the nation was to reopen the national School of Fine Arts. Sophiline was one of the first students to learn from the masters of dance who had survived both the end of the court and the later violence of Pol Pot, who specially targeted artists.^[2] Being among the first generation of classically trained Cambodian dancers to graduate from the School of Fine Arts in Phnom Phen, Sophiline devoted herself to master the complex and intricate gestures and movements of classical Cambodian dance.^[3] Along with her husband, Sophiline launched the Khmer Arts Academy to teach a new generation of Cambodian-Americans the traditional art and culture of Cambodia.^[3]

Career[link]

Sophiline Shapiro (artistic director) is a groundbreaking choreographer, dancer, vocalist^[2] and educator whose challenging work has infused the venerable classical form with new ideas and energy. In 1990 Shapiro did a classical Cambodian dance adaptation of Othello called SAMRITHECHAK (2000) (សម្រីតិចក់) where she used symbolism and metaphors to allude the Khmer Rouge of their guilt and denial of the crimes they committed on Cambodia.^[1] Her choreography includes THE GLASS BOX (2002) and SEASONS OF MIGRATION (2005), which she has set on Cambodia’s finest performing artists and toured to three continents. Notable venues include Cal Performances, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, New York’s Joyce Theater and the Venice Biennale. PAMINA DEVI had its world premiere at the Schonbrunn Palace Theater as part of Vienna’s New Crowned Hope Festival (2006). Her most recent project, a collaboration with composer Chinary Ung for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, is scheduled to premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall in November 2008. She has received numerous honors, including Asia 21, Creative Capital, Durfee, Guggenheim and Irvine Dance Fellowships, as well as the Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture. She was a member of the first generation to train at and graduate from Phnom Penh’s School of Fine Arts after the fall of Pol Pot, and she has studied dance ethnology at the undergraduate and graduate level at UCLA’s Department of World Arts & Cultures^[4] In 2009 she was made a National Heritage Fellow, and was also named a 2009 Fellow by United States Artists.^[5]

Achievements[link]

• 2006: Winner of Nikkie Asia Prize^[6]: Culture Prize^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Khmer Arts Academy Seasons of Migration (preview) vdo
• Chhouy Chai vdo
• Robam Makor Choreographed by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro and Chariya Burt vdo
• Robam Joun Por Choreographed by Professor Sophiline Cheam Shapiro and Chariya Burt vdo
• "Living in the Past, Present, & Future: A Conversation with Pandit Chitresh Das and Sophiline Cheam Shapiro". NEA Arts. Number 3, 2009. http://arts.endow.gov/about/NEARTS/storyNew.php?id=p10-das&issue=2009_v3.