Visit Tooting Places

Welcome to Visit Tooting Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Tooting

  

Tooting Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Tooting

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Tooting history

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Tooting has been settled since pre-Saxon times. The Romans built a road from London (Londinium) to Chichester (Noviomagus Regnorum) Tooting appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Totinges. Upper Tooting, or Tooting Bec, appears as a manor held by the Abbey of Hellouin Bec, in Normandy. Until minor changes in the 19th century it consisted of 2 km (3/4 sq mi)

You can visit Tooting places with Walkfo Tooting to hear history at Tooting’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Tooting has 186 places to visit in our interactive Tooting 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 Tooting, 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 Tooting places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Tooting & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 186 audio facts unique to Tooting places in an interactive Tooting map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit Tooting Places Map
186 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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

  

Best Tooting places to visit

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

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 .

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 .

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 .

Norbury Estate The Norbury Estate originated as a London County Council cottage estate . It was built between 1901 and 1920 in what is now the north of the London Borough of Croydon . The estate was declared a conservation area in 2008 .

Tooting Commons The Tooting Commons consist of two adjacent areas of common land lying between Balham, Streatham and Tooting, in south west London . Tooting Bec Common and Graveney Common are common land adjacent to each other .

Streatham Cemetery Streatham Cemetery is a cemetery on Garratt Lane in Tooting, London . It is one of three cemeteries managed by Lambeth London Borough Council, the others are West Norwood Cemetery and Lambeth Cemetery .

Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre Streatham Ice and Leisure Centre is the only Olympic-sized skating rink in the city . It is home to the home ice hockey team, the Streatham RedHawks . The rink replaced the older Streatingham Ice Arena .

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