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Encyclopedia Britannica



WANDSWORTH

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 303 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
WANDSWORTH , a
south
 -western metropolitan borough of London, England, bounded N. by the river Thames and
Batter
 -sea, and E. by Lambeth, and extending S. and W. to the boundary of the county of London. Pop. (1901) 232,034. The name, which occurs in Domesday, indicates the position of the
village
  on the river Wandle, a small tributary of the Thames. Wands-worth is the largest in area of the metropolitan boroughs, including the districts of Putney by the river, part of Clapham in the north-
east
 , Streatham in the
south
 -
east
 , Balham and Upper and Lower Tooting in the centre and south. These aremainly residential districts, and the borough is not thickly populated. Towards the west, along the Upper Richmond and Kingston roads, there is considerable open country, undulating and well wooded. It is to a
great
  extent preserved in the public grounds of Putney Heath, which adjoins
Wimbledon
  Common, outside the borough, on the north; and Richmond Park and Barnes Common, parts of which are in the borough. Other public grounds are parts of Wandsworth Common (193 acres) and Clapham Common, both extending into Battersea, Tooting Bec (147 acres) and Streatham Common (66 acres), and Wands-worth Park bordering the Thames. The borough is connected with Fulham across the Thames by Wandsworth and Putney bridges. The annual
Oxford
  and
Cambridge
  boat-race starts from above Putney Bridge,
finishing
  at Mortlake; and the club-houses of the principal rowing clubs of London are situated on the Putney shore. Putney Heath was formerly notorious as a resort of highwaymen and duellists. Among the institutions of Wandsworth are the Royal
Hospital
 
    See Also:
for Incurables, Putney; the Fountain and the Grove fever hospitals, Lower Tooting; the Clapham School of Art, Wandsworth Technical Institute; the Roman Catholic Training College for Women, West Hill; and Wandsworth Prison, Heathfield Road. The parliamentary borough of Wandsworth returns one member, but the municipal borough also includes part of the Clapham division of the parliamentary borough of Battersea and Clap-ham, and part of the
Wimbledon
  division of Surrey. The borough council consists of a mayor, 10 aldermen and 6o councillors. Area, 9129.7 acres.


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