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A map from 1944. Wimbledon Common is a large open space in Wimbledon, southwest London. There are three named areas: Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath, and Putney Lower Common, which together are managed under the name Wimbledon and Putney Commons totalling 460 hectares (1,140 acres). [1] [2] Putney Lower Common is set apart from the rest of the ...
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Nov 15, 2021 · About 600 acres of the Wimbeldon Common is a site of Special Scientific Interest (an SSSI in the jargon). This unique environment is fringed by two golf courses but dominated by heathland and acidic grassland. Over 40 percent of the Wimbledon Common is heathland and this dramatic landscape, which thrives on impoverished soil that supports ...
Terms of settlement were eventually agreed and embodied in a Bill which was deposited on 17 December 1870 and passed by the House of Commons on 22 May 1871. Further difficulties arose when demands came from the War Office for the use of the Commons for military purposes. At length, on 16 August 1871, the Wimbledon and Putney Commons Act finally ...
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Explore 1,140 acres of open space. Wimbledon and Putney Commons are made up of four areas: Wimbledon Common, Putney Heath, Putney Lower Common and the Richardson Evans Memorial Playing Fields. Much of the Commons are a Site of Special Scientific Interest and a Special Area of Conservation. With woodland, scrubland, heathland and mown recreation ...
Wimbledon Common. 93 from Putney Bridge to Cheam, passing right alongside Parkside and through Wimbledon Village. For the Windmill alight at the Parkside Hospital stop. Putney Heath. There is a bus terminus at the Green Man, Putney Heath and the following buses terminate here: 14 from Warren Street. 37 from Peckham Bus Station.