Kitchen socket spur from upstairs

[Dazzathedrummer]

Hi,
I need to remove this single socket as I’m building a tiled splash back that would go across it. As you can see there are plenty of sockets available so I just want to remove it.

The cable comes in from the top. The cables for the double come up from the bottom.

By process of elimination we’ve discovered that’s it’s a spur coming from upstairs - but this is directly below the bathroom - I’m just wondering why anyone would go to all that trouble when they could have spurred it from the socket next to it or extended the loop.

I’m not an electrician so there may be a valid reason for this - it’s either coming from the heating timer (which is in the bathroom) or from another bedroom.

I am looking to put a socket in above the cupboards roughly above where this is - is there any reason I can’t use this spur?

 

[endecotp]

Perhaps they wanted one socket on a different circuit so that they could still boil a kettle when something else in the kitchen had tripped?

 

[Sureitsoff?]

could it originally been a feed to an immersion heater but switched from the kitchen

 

[SUNRAY]

could it originally been a feed to an immersion heater but switched from the kitchen

My best guess, especially having found the immersion heater (edit-switch) in the kitchen a couple of times.

 

[Murdochcat]

Is this single socket on a different MCB / fuse / RCBO to the kitchen sockets

 

[Dazzathedrummer]

Is this single socket on a different MCB / fuse / RCBO to the kitchen sockets

We’ve got upstairs sockets, downstairs sockets and another switch called ‘kitchen socket’ that I thought might be the one but the socket in question only goes off when the upstairs switch is flipped. So I guess another socket in the kitchen has its own switch.

It’s a 1937 house but I had the fuse box upgraded to a consumer unit in 2018.

 

[Murdochcat]

We’ve got upstairs sockets, downstairs sockets and another switch called ‘kitchen socket’ that I thought might be the one but the socket in question only goes off when the upstairs switch is flipped. So I guess another socket in the kitchen has its own switch.

It’s a 1937 house but I had the fuse box upgraded to a consumer unit in 2018.

Poor circuit labelling is so so common.