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In 1889 the area was removed from Surrey and became part of the County of London. The Wandsworth District became the Metropolitan Borough of Wandsworth in 1900. Since 1965 Putney has formed part of the London Borough of Wandsworth in Greater London.
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One thousand seven hundred years after the Romans constructed the original London Bridge it remained the only dry crossing over the Thames between the city and the old medieval structure upriver at Kingston.
From about 1500 large houses for London merchants and gentlemen multiplied, at first in the High Street area and later Putney Hill and by the Heath. The last in the High Street, Fairfax House, went in 1887. In 1647, in the Putney Debates, officers and men of the New Model Army under Fairfax and Cromwell discussed who should have the vote.
The Watermen's School, in Wandsworth Lane, was founded in 1684 by Thomas Martyn, a merchant of London, as a token of gratitude for having been saved from drowning by a Putney waterman. The school is a spacious red-brick building, and in it is afforded maintenance and education for twenty boys, the sons of watermen.
In 1642 during the Civil War, when the king's army had retired from Turnham Green to Kingston, and his further intentions were uncertain, a bridge of boats was thrown over the river from Fulham by Essex to enable him to cross into Surrey readily should the king advance south of London. In 1647 the village became the head quarters of the ...
Putney was called Putelei or Putenhie in the Domesday Book of 1086, which recorded that the village obtained 20 shillings from a ferry or market toll. In 1855, it became part of the Wandsworth district of Surrey and was included in the new county of London in 1889.
Putney became the scene of some very interesting transactions during the civil war in the last century. When the royal army marched to Kingston, after the battle of Brentford, the Earl of Essex having determined to follow him into Surrey, a bridge of boats was constructed for that purpose between Fulham and Putney, and forts were ordered to be ...
