Visit Southfields Places

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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Southfields

  

Southfields Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Southfields

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Southfields history

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Until the late 19th century Southfields was still fields, situated between Wimbledon and Putney. Several of the former pathways through the fields form the routes of parts of today’s road system.

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Southfields takes its name from the old manorial system, where it was known as the South Field of Dunsford . The equivalent North Field lay between West Hill and the River Thames and survives in Northfields which runs to the east of Wandsworth Park .

Southfields geography / climate

Southfield’s postcodes are split across the London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Merton. Wimbledon Park has an athletic track and a landscaped lake that is home to a number of water sports. The smaller but historic Coronation Gardens bordering the southern edge of the Southfields triangle commemorates the coronation of King Edward VII.

You can visit Southfields places with Walkfo Southfields to hear history at Southfields’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Southfields has 308 places to visit in our interactive Southfields map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Southfields, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Southfields places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Southfields & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 308 audio facts unique to Southfields places in an interactive Southfields map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Southfields Places Map
308 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Southfields tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Southfields

  

Best Southfields places to visit

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Southfields has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Southfields’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Southfields’s information audio spots:

Katherine Low Settlement The Katherine Low Settlement was founded in 1924 as part of the settlement movement . It is now a listed building and provider of charitable services to the local community .

Old Battersea House Old Battersea House is one of the oldest surviving buildings in South West London . It was rumoured to have been designed by Sir Christopher Wren . Grade II* listed building was built around 1699 and Grade II listed .

Clapham Grand The Grand (previously The Grand Theatre) is a Grade II listed building on St John’s Hill, near Clapham Junction, South London . It was designed by Earnest Woodrow and was first opened in 1900 as The New Grand Theatre of Varieties .

The Falcon, Battersea The Falcon is a Grade II listed public house at 2 St John’s Hill, Battersea, London . It is located in the centre of the city’s most famous landmarks .

Battersea Central Library The library was built by the Battersea Vestry between 1889 and 1890, to a design by Edward Mountford . It remains in use in contemporary times as one of Wandsworth Council’s libraries .

Huguenot Burial Site The Huguenot Burial Site is located in Wandsworth, London . It was in use from 1687 to 1854 . It is located next to St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church .

Wandsworth Common Wandsworth Common is 69.43 hectares (171.6 acres) It is a public common in the London Borough of Wandsworth, south London . The population of the ward at the 2011 Census was 15,247 .

Royal Trinity Hospice Royal Trinity Hospice is the oldest hospice in the UK, founded in 1891 by a member of the Hoare banking family . The hospice provides free palliative and end of life care for patients in a state-of-the-art inpatient unit at their Clapham Common headquarters and in the community .

Putney Library Putney Library is a Grade II listed public library in the London Borough of Wandsworth . It is located in Putney, London .

Fazl Mosque, London The Fazl Mosque is the first purpose-built mosque in London, England . It was opened on 23 October 1926 in Southfields, Wandsworth . Between 1984 and 2019 the mosque was the residence of the caliphs of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community .

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